• The Unfinished Revolution: Learning, human development, community and political paradox written by John Abbott and Terry Ryan. The book is published by Network Educational Press in England and ASCD in the US. The introduction is available by clicking here.

• "The New Economy's Impact on Learning," by Terry Ryan (September 2000).

• "Constructing Knowledge, Reconstructing Schooling," by John Abbott and Terry Ryan appeared in the November 1999 issue of Educational Leadership.

• A new version of John Abbott's speech, "Battery Hens, or Free Range Chickens?" -- What Kind of Education, for What Kind of World?, as delivered to the Second Canadian Forum. Serves as a good introduction to the Initiative's ideas.

• The Initiative's Policy Paper from November 1998 is the most detailed description of our work and is necessary reading for anyone interested the ideas and research accumulated by the Initiative. The document is available as an Adobe Acrobate 4.0 file. To download Adobe Acrobate 4.0 click here. Dowload Policy Paper (546k)
  

• The November Journal, viewable with Adobe Acrobate Reader
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• Journey Towards an Understanding of Learning: a Head Teacher Travels with Education 2000 to the 21st Century Learning Initiative, by Janet Lawley, the first Fellow of the Initiative.

• Learning to Go with the Grain of the Brain, by John Abbott and Terence Ryan appeared in the spring 1999 Issue of Education Canada.

• Relearning Learning: An Interview with John Abbott, from the March 21, 1999 Winona (Minnesota) Daily News.

• ...Learning, Learning, Learning!, which appears in the 1998 Conference Issue of the (U.K.) Parliamentary Monitor.

• Making the Case: Understanding the "disconnects" that explain why good schools alone will never be good enough to meet the needs of the 21st Century (appears in the May, 1998 (U.K.) Parliamentary Monitor).

• The Search for Expertise, by John Abbott. Prepared for The Independent newspaper in Great Britain.

• Upside Down and Inside Out: A Challenge to Redesign Education Systems to Fit the Needs of a Learning Society
  An article that appeared in the January 1998 edition of The American Administrator magazine.

• An abridged version of "Upside Down and Inside Out: Why good schools alone will never be good enough to meet the needs of the 21st Century," which appeared in the January, 1998 (U.K.) Parliamentary Monitor.

• A Proposal to Prime Minister Tony Blair Submitted by the Trustees of Education 2000 in September, 1997.

• Learning Makes Sense: Recreating education for a changing future, by John Abbott. Available on the web site is the foreward. To place an order for a full copy send email to mail@21learn.org

• "To Be Intelligent." by John Abbott appeared in the March 1997 issue of Educational Leadership.

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