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Everett W. Reimer (1910–1998[1]) was an education theorist who authored several books on educational policy and was a proponent of deschooling. He was a notable friend of Ivan Illich, whom he met at the Catholic University of Puerto Rico.

Everett Reimer
Born	1910
Died	1998
Occupation	Education theorist

Everett did a variety of things before joining CIDOC, including selling maps, playing professional football, printing greeting cards, and working at a tire factory. During the Second World War he was a civil servant. After the war Reimer worked for the Atomic Energy Commission, for the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan, and for the Washington Research Center of the Maxwell School, University of Syracuse.[2]

After these jobs Reimer came to Puerto Rico as Secretary of Committee of Human Resources, and worked for the Alliance for Progress. Reimer met Ivan Illich in 1958 in Puerto Rico, where they jointly developed their philosophy of deschooling. Reimer then joined the Center for Intercultural Documentation (CIDOC), as the Director of the CIDOC seminar on Alternatives in Education.[2]

Books published

• Power for All or for None by Katherine and Everett Reimer (1998)

Paperback: 348 pages

Publisher: Inkworks Press Oakland, CA (1998)

Language: English

ASIN B0006R0WC8

• School is Dead: Alternatives in Education

176 pages

Publisher: Penguin (1971)

Language: English

ISBN 0-14-080169-3

• Unusual ideas in education (Series B: Opinions / International Commission on the Development of Education) (Series B: Opinions / International Commission on the Development of Education)

11 pages

Publisher: Unesco (January 1, 1971)

Language: English

ASIN B0007C5FTW

• Social problems associated with the development of Puerto Rico during the last two decades (January 1, 1960)

Publisher: s.n. (January 1, 1960)

Language: English

ASIN B0007JY33E

• Venezuela's human resources (January 1, 1964)
• Problems of methodology in the investigation and planning of education [and] training in Venezuela (January 1, 1964)
• Three weeks in the life of a utopia (1976)
• Futuros alternativos (Serie de planificación)

110 pages

Publisher: Editorial Universitaria, Universidad de Puerto Rico; 1. ed edition (1976)

Language: Spanish

ISBN 0-8477-2434-4

• Social planning: Collected papers, 1957-68 (CIDOC cuaderno) (1968)
• Comprehensive educational planning in Puerto Rico (Comprehensive planning in state education agencies) (January 1, 1968)

103 pages

Publisher: Office of Planning and Educational Development, Dept. of Education (January 1, 1968)

Language: English

ASIN B0007K2TJ8

References

External links

• Whalesong.org review
• Amazon reviews of "School is Dead"
• Critical studies of schooling review
• Everett Reimer in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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