The Sudbury Valley school is one of the first US schools based on the original child-driven school called The Summerhill School, which is based in the UK: http

The Sudbury Valley school is one of the first US schools based on the original child-driven school called The Summerhill School, which is based in the UK: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerhill_School https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerhill_School This "democratic school" movement has spread across the world since the Summerhill School was founded in the 1920s: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_democratic_schools https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_democratic_schools If you want to deep dive There's a book about The Summerhill School that was written in the 1960s: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178734.Summerhill http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178734.Summerhill