In this stirring account of a teacher and his fourteen students tucked away in the Green Mountains of Vermont, educator Tal Birdsey fervently documents the founding year of the North Branch School with wit and humility.

Part memoir, part meditation on the power of art and poetry, and part criticique of standardized education, A Room for Learning evokes a spirit of change, in which students were allowed a hand in their own education.

a bit of the NBS story...buy it now.