Jerry Mintz has been a leading voice in the alternative school movement for over 30 years. He has a BA from Goddard College, and a Masters in Teaching in the Social Sciences from Antioch New England Graduate School.

He worked as a public school teacher and a public and independent alternative school principal for 17 years. He founded several alternative schools and organizations and became the first executive director of the National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools, serving from 1985-1989. In 1989 he founded the Alternative Education Resource Organization which he continues to direct, and is Managing Editor of its networking magazine, The Education Revolution.

He has lectured and consulted with schools and organizations in the United States and around the world, including Russia, the Czech Republic, France, England, Israel, Denmark, Holland, Ukraine, Japan, Austria, Germany, India and New Zealand. He was a founding member of International Democratic Education Conference and has helped organize and spoken at many of them, including the one at Stork Family School in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, Summerhill School in England, Tokyo Shure, in Japan, Christchurch, New Zealand, Bhubaneswar, India, and Berlin Germany. In 2003 AERO co-hosted the IDEC in the United States for the first time. Over 90 schools from 25 countries and 25 states were represented. He has been a guest on numerous local and national radio and TV shows, including Fox News Network's Hannity and Colmes show and National Public Radio's All Things Considered, and Talk of the Nation. He has hosted two national weekly radio shows, one on the Talk America Network, the other on the Cable Radio Network.

Jerry was Editor-in-Chief for the Handbook of Alternative Education (Macmillan 1994), which lists 7,300 educational alternatives and later  the Almanac of Education Choices (Macmillan/Simon & Schuster 1995). 

His essays, commentaries, and reviews have appeared in numerous newspapers, journals, and magazines including The New York Times, Newsday, Paths of Learning, Green Money Journal, Communities, Saturday Review, Holistic Education Review as well as the anthology Creating Learning Communities (Foundation for Educational Renewal 2000).

His latest title is No Homework and Recess All Day: How to Have Freedom and Democracy in Education (Bravura 2003) and is currently working on an anthology of essays written throughout the course of his career as a teacher, principal, and non-profit director.

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