Susannah Sheffer Explained

Susannah Sheffer
Website:	Personal website

Susannah Sheffer is an author, editor, and activist, focusing on issues of education, prisons, and the death penalty. She is a leader in the unschooling, deschooling, and homeschooling movement.^[1] She served on the board of Holt Associates, edited the newsletter Growing Without Schooling (GWS) for many years, and edited the book A Life Worth Living: Selected Letters of John Holt.^{[2] [3] [4]} She is currently a staff member of North Star, an alternative to middle school and high school in Massachusetts.^[5]

Her books include A Sense of Self: Listening to Homeschooled Adolescent Girls, Writing Because We Love To: Homeschoolers at Work, In a Dark Time: A Prisoner's Struggle for Healing and Change, and Fighting for Their Lives: Inside the Experiences of Capital Defense Attorneys. She has also published numerous articles, essays, and book chapters on related issues.^[6]

External links

• Personal website
• Susannah Sheffer on IMDb

Notes and References

1. News: In Home Schooling, A New Type of Student. Lewin. Tamar. November 29, 1995. The New York Times. December 2, 2018 . live . https://archive.today/20221020181925/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/29/us/in-home-schooling-a-new-type-of-student.html . October 20, 2022.
2. Growing without Schooling in Hern, M. (Ed.). (2008). Everywhere all the time: A new deschooling reader. AK Press.
3. November–December 2001. Reflections. Growing Without Schooling. 143. 2.
4. https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780867093575 Publishers Weekly review of A Sense of Self: Listening to Homeschooled Adolescent Girls, Sept 4, 1005, https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780867093575
5. Web site: PEOPLE — North Star. North Star. en-US. 2018-12-02.
6. Web site: SusannahSheffer. SusannahSheffer. en. 2018-12-02.