Daniel A. Greenberg (28 September 1934 – 2 December 2021), was one of the founders of the Sudbury Valley School, has published several books on the Sudbury model of school organization,^[1] and was described by Sudbury Valley School trustee Peter Gray as the "principal philosopher" among its founders.^[2] He was a physics professor at Columbia University, and was described by Lois Holzman as the school's "chief 'philosophical writer'".^[3]

Publications

Books

• 1964, Anaxagoras and the Birth of Physics with Daniel E. Gershenson, OCLC 899834
• 1973, Announcing a New School: A Personal Account of the Beginnings of the Sudbury Valley School, ISBN 1-888947-11-X
• 1974, Outline of a New Philosophy, ISBN 1-888947-17-9
• 1987, Child Rearing, ISBN 1-888947-06-3
• 1988, Early lessons : some recollections of my youth and what it taught me, ISBN 1-888947-09-8
• 1991, Free at Last: The Sudbury Valley School, ISBN 1-888947-00-4
• 1992, The Sudbury Valley School Experience with Hanna Greenberg, Michael Greenberg, Laura Ransom, Mimsy Sadofsky and Alan White, ISBN 1-888947-01-2
• 1992, Legacy of Trust, Life After the Sudbury Valley School Experience with Mimsy Sadofsky, ISBN 1-888947-04-7
• 1992, A New Look at Schools, ISBN 1-888947-03-9
• 1992, Education in America: A View from Sudbury Valley, ISBN 1-888947-07-1
• 1994, Worlds in Creation, ISBN 1-888947-10-1
• 1994, Kingdom of Childhood, Growing Up At Sudbury Valley School with Mimsy Sadofsky and Hanna Greenberg, ISBN 1-888-94702-0
• 1995, Sudbury Valley School Handbook, ISBN 1-888947-14-4
• 1998, Starting a Sudbury School: A Summary of the Experiences of Fifteen Start-Up Groups with Mimsy Sadofsky, ISBN 1-888947-19-5
• 1999, Reflections on the Sudbury School Concept with Mimsy Sadofsky, ISBN 1-888947-20-9
• 2000, A Clearer View: New Insights into the Sudbury School Model, ISBN 1-888947-22-5
• 2004, The Pursuit of Happiness: The Lives of Sudbury Valley Alumni with Mimsy Sadofsky and Jason Lempka, ISBN 1-888947-25-X
• 2008, Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track with Russell L. Ackoff, ISBN 0-13-234649-4.
• 2016, A Place to Grow: The Culture of Sudbury Valley School, ISBN 1-888947-26-8.
• 2018, America at Risk: How Schools Undermine Our Country's Core Values, ISBN 1-888947-32-2.
• 2018, Constructing reality: The Most Creative of All the Arts, ISBN 1-888947-28-4.

Chapters

• 1994, "Democratic to the Core: Life in Sudbury Valley School", in The Handbook of Alternative Education.^[4]

Papers

• 1960, Theory of Allowed and Forbidden Transitions in Muon Capture Reactions. II, with Masato Morita, in Physical Review, 119, pp. 435–437.
• 1960, Theory of the Hyperfine Anomalies of Deuterium, Tritium, and Helium-3⁺, with Henry M. Foley, in Physical Review, 120, pp. 1684–1697.
• 1987, Idea Notebook: Teaching Justice through Experience, in Journal of Experiential Education, 10(1), pp. 46–47.

Articles

• 1991, Learning without coercion: Sudbury Valley School in Mothering, 58, pp. 102–105.
• 1985-1992, regular column in the Middlesex News on education in America.^[5]