Monday, July 20, 2009
Swine flu epidemics of 1976
CBS documentary on the swine flu epidemics of 1976 in the U.S. Apparently it went on air only once and was never shown again. Watch it here (15mns clip).
For many, benefits flow in schooling at home
"As politicians argue over school league tables and teaching standards, parents are increasingly taking their children out of the school system."
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Sunday, July 19, 2009
Books to read online
How Children Fail John Holt
Instead of Education - John Holt
Teach Your Own - John Holt
The Underachieving School - John Holt
Never Too Late - John Holt
What do I do Monday? - John Holt
Sharing Treasures - John Holt
Danger: School! IDAC Document
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling John Taylor Gatto
The Exhausted School - John Taylor Gatto
Underground History of American Education John Taylor Gatto
Compulsory Miseducation Paul Goodman
Teaching as a Subvertive Activity - Neil Postman & Charles Weingartner
Against Education: For the Abolition of School
School, Society & The Future
Deschooling Society - Ivan Illich
Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing - A S Neill
Free from School by Rahul Alvares
School is Dead Everett Reimer
Toward the Destruction of Schooling Jan D Matthews
How To Get An Education At Home Pat Farenga
None Dare Call It Education (How Schools Dumb Us Down) (1999) Stormer
The Animal School
Black and Other UK Home Educators' Booklet
Christian Homeschooling Minus the Stress by Sue Rumsley
Unschooling Media - Vanessa Bertozzi
The Montessori Method - Maria Montessory
The Education of the Child - Dr. Rudolf Steiner
Discussions with Teachers - Dr. Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Steiner Books
Education and the Significance of Life - Jiddu Krishnamurti
Beginnings of learning - J. Krishnamurti
Krishnamurti on Education Jiddu Krishnamurti
Letters to the Schools Volume 1 Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life Ahead Jiddu Krishnamurti
Education by Swami Vivekananda
What's Wrong With The World - G.K.Chesterton
Democracy and Education - John Dewey
Fundamental Education V.M. Samael Aun Weor
The History of Education Ellwood P. Cubberley
Education for Destruction -Bessie R Burchett
Instead of Education - John Holt
Teach Your Own - John Holt
The Underachieving School - John Holt
Never Too Late - John Holt
What do I do Monday? - John Holt
Sharing Treasures - John Holt
Danger: School! IDAC Document
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling John Taylor Gatto
The Exhausted School - John Taylor Gatto
Underground History of American Education John Taylor Gatto
Compulsory Miseducation Paul Goodman
Teaching as a Subvertive Activity - Neil Postman & Charles Weingartner
Against Education: For the Abolition of School
School, Society & The Future
Deschooling Society - Ivan Illich
Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing - A S Neill
Free from School by Rahul Alvares
School is Dead Everett Reimer
Toward the Destruction of Schooling Jan D Matthews
How To Get An Education At Home Pat Farenga
None Dare Call It Education (How Schools Dumb Us Down) (1999) Stormer
The Animal School
Black and Other UK Home Educators' Booklet
Christian Homeschooling Minus the Stress by Sue Rumsley
Unschooling Media - Vanessa Bertozzi
The Montessori Method - Maria Montessory
The Education of the Child - Dr. Rudolf Steiner
Discussions with Teachers - Dr. Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Steiner Books
Education and the Significance of Life - Jiddu Krishnamurti
Beginnings of learning - J. Krishnamurti
Krishnamurti on Education Jiddu Krishnamurti
Letters to the Schools Volume 1 Jiddu Krishnamurti
Life Ahead Jiddu Krishnamurti
Education by Swami Vivekananda
What's Wrong With The World - G.K.Chesterton
Democracy and Education - John Dewey
Fundamental Education V.M. Samael Aun Weor
The History of Education Ellwood P. Cubberley
Education for Destruction -Bessie R Burchett
AHEd's response to the EHE Review Report
AHEd's link to the Briefing Paper can be found here. It could be a useful guide for MPs and others who are being approached.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009
HSLDA's Reply to the Badman Report
English Home Education: Already In Proper Balance
His name is Badman. Graham Badman. His June 2009 “Report to the Secretary of State on the Review of Elective Home Education in England,” which proposes draconian changes in English home education law, lives up to his name.
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His name is Badman. Graham Badman. His June 2009 “Report to the Secretary of State on the Review of Elective Home Education in England,” which proposes draconian changes in English home education law, lives up to his name.
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Inspection Of Homeschooling
"Education is first and foremost the duty of the parent rather than the state.... Parents may delegate this educational responsibility to those whom they trust, but this delegation in no wise removes their responsibility for the education of their children.
In other words, Badman has his priorities reversed. It is not that homeschoolers should submit to education authorities - it is that, if parents choose to send their children to a collective school, rather than educate them at home, the school must still educate them according to the wishes and direction of the parents. The teacher is in loco parentis."
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In other words, Badman has his priorities reversed. It is not that homeschoolers should submit to education authorities - it is that, if parents choose to send their children to a collective school, rather than educate them at home, the school must still educate them according to the wishes and direction of the parents. The teacher is in loco parentis."
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Saturday, July 11, 2009
Home Education Learning Platform
Businessman launches new ‘school in a box’
"A BUSINESSMAN is so passionate about modernising education he’s spent ten years and millions of pounds creating an online “school in a box” for parents and children.
The Help – Home Education Learning Platform – is for youngsters who have been expelled from school, are off due to long-term sickness, or for parents who choose to educate their children at home."
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"A BUSINESSMAN is so passionate about modernising education he’s spent ten years and millions of pounds creating an online “school in a box” for parents and children.
The Help – Home Education Learning Platform – is for youngsters who have been expelled from school, are off due to long-term sickness, or for parents who choose to educate their children at home."
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009
The Idle Parent: home education
"It's time to teach the meddlers a thing or two about home education."
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Sunday, July 05, 2009
The curious incident of the straight-A student
"Alex Goodenough was the cleverest kid in his school - so why didn't he get a sixth form place? Decca Aitkenhead talks to his family about the impact of Asperger's."
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Parents of unruly children face £1,000 fines
Parents could be hit with £1,000 fines if children regularly misbehave under plans to improve discipline in schools.
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Friday, June 26, 2009
Home education news
This clampdown on home education doesn't help children
Fundamental changes to the law affecting the rights and the freedom of about 80,000 children may be sneaked into a bill going through parliament, after the review into home education by Graham Badman (Report to crack down on home schooling, 6 June).
The parenting police
Parents are hitting back at plans for what they believe are Big Brother-style powers to inspect home schooling.
"What [Graham] Badman recommends policing is not simply home education but parenting. Under this government parents are considered unfit unless checked and approved by an ever growing list of 'professionals'."
"So what has happened to the basic right of every citizen in this country to be assumed innocent of a crime unless proven otherwise? Under these new proposals home educating parents and their children will be forcibly inspected, even if there is no evidence or cause to believe that abuse is taking place."
Fundamental changes to the law affecting the rights and the freedom of about 80,000 children may be sneaked into a bill going through parliament, after the review into home education by Graham Badman (Report to crack down on home schooling, 6 June).
The parenting police
Parents are hitting back at plans for what they believe are Big Brother-style powers to inspect home schooling.
"What [Graham] Badman recommends policing is not simply home education but parenting. Under this government parents are considered unfit unless checked and approved by an ever growing list of 'professionals'."
"So what has happened to the basic right of every citizen in this country to be assumed innocent of a crime unless proven otherwise? Under these new proposals home educating parents and their children will be forcibly inspected, even if there is no evidence or cause to believe that abuse is taking place."
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Home education on the news
Parents condemn plans for councils to 'police' home education
There are about 750 children in Kent who are currently educated at home. Alexander Roarke, a Kent-based trustee of the charity Education Otherwise, said: "We reject the disproportionate and unreasonable recommendations set out in this report for compulsory registration and invasive monitoring. Someone from the local authority is now allowed to enter my home, take my children and interview them without me being present...that is a power that only the police have."
Parents' anger at home education recommendations grows
Parents who educate their children at home are up in arms over the recommendations of the government-commissioned review into home education in England. Home educators are using CYP Now 's forums to lobby the government to disregard the findings of Graham Badman's review into home education. Parents are particularly concerned by Badman's recommendation that local authorities should have right of access to the home of home educated children, and should have the right to speak to each child alone if deemed appropriate, or in the company of a trusted person who is not the home educator or parent/carer.
There are about 750 children in Kent who are currently educated at home. Alexander Roarke, a Kent-based trustee of the charity Education Otherwise, said: "We reject the disproportionate and unreasonable recommendations set out in this report for compulsory registration and invasive monitoring. Someone from the local authority is now allowed to enter my home, take my children and interview them without me being present...that is a power that only the police have."
Parents' anger at home education recommendations grows
Parents who educate their children at home are up in arms over the recommendations of the government-commissioned review into home education in England. Home educators are using CYP Now 's forums to lobby the government to disregard the findings of Graham Badman's review into home education. Parents are particularly concerned by Badman's recommendation that local authorities should have right of access to the home of home educated children, and should have the right to speak to each child alone if deemed appropriate, or in the company of a trusted person who is not the home educator or parent/carer.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Petition to reject the Badman Report
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Reject the Report to the Secretary of State on the Review of Elective Home Education in England by Graham Badman.
This report is a totally disproportionate response to a 'perceived' problem full of unsubstantiated allegations that home educated children are more at risk than those at school. This is simply not true and enacting the recommendations in this report would establish the state as parent of first resort. To allow LA staff access to private homes to interview children without their parents when there is no reason to suspect abuse is outrageous.
You can sign it here.
This report is a totally disproportionate response to a 'perceived' problem full of unsubstantiated allegations that home educated children are more at risk than those at school. This is simply not true and enacting the recommendations in this report would establish the state as parent of first resort. To allow LA staff access to private homes to interview children without their parents when there is no reason to suspect abuse is outrageous.
You can sign it here.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Bringing the Olympics back home
Nearly 50 children aged from four to 15 took part in the sports day organised by the Home Education Centre, which provides group activities for home-educated children.
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Khyra 'had four visits by welfare'
Welfare workers visited the home of Khyra Ishaq four times last year while she was starving to death, a court heard yesterday.
Two education welfare workers, a social worker and a home education worker all called between January and April, but only one was let in.
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Two education welfare workers, a social worker and a home education worker all called between January and April, but only one was let in.
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Friday, June 19, 2009
TreeHouse welcomes government’s EHE review
TreeHouse, the national charity for autism education, welcomes the acknowledgement within the government’s review of home education that children with special educational needs (SEN) are disproportionately represented among the population of children who are educated at home.
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Home education on the news
Hey parents, leave those kids alone!
Home education is not better than school, says CAROL SARLER
Lessons to be learned from home schooling
CUMBRIAN parents who educate their children at home could face inspections under new plans to ensure youngsters do not fall through the net.
Home education is not better than school, says CAROL SARLER
Lessons to be learned from home schooling
CUMBRIAN parents who educate their children at home could face inspections under new plans to ensure youngsters do not fall through the net.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Home education on the news
Parents who teach pupils at home are to be vetted
Speaking before the publication of the report, Fiona Nicholson of Education Otherwise, a home education support group, said any register would be “intrusive” on families. “There is a lot of fear that restrictions will be brought in by the back door,” Ms Nicholson said. “We are very cynical about the whole thing. We have put forward more than 40 recommendations of our own, but we doubt any of them will be paid any notice.”
Speaking before the publication of the report, Fiona Nicholson of Education Otherwise, a home education support group, said any register would be “intrusive” on families. “There is a lot of fear that restrictions will be brought in by the back door,” Ms Nicholson said. “We are very cynical about the whole thing. We have put forward more than 40 recommendations of our own, but we doubt any of them will be paid any notice.”
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