The annual exam season is upon us along with the endless debates about testing regimes in the UK. Today the Select Committee Report suggests that SATs could be

Policy briefings on the 14-19 phase: Schools and Raising the Learning Leaving Age, 15 May 2008: with Chris Tweedale,

Debate and learn with Power League- a free educational tool www.powerleague.org.uk Power League is great for provoking group discussions- whatever the subject or age of participants. You can create

The RSA is considering a major new initiative in the form of a campaign for schooling fit for the 21st century. An Education Campaign would be based around a

Edutopia News:  http://www.edutopia.org/edutopianews.html reports a Seattle teacher rejecting the  State's Standardized Test. The item came from NPR organisation http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90167639 A teacher in the Seattle School District is defying federal,

Personalised Learning: Taking Choice Seriously edited by Mark Webster. What happens

LibEd Bulletin http://www.libed.org.uk NEW ARTICLES POSTED, MAY, 2008 EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON CHILDHOOD Robin Alexander¹s keynote lecture at the conference on Childhood, Wellbeing and Primary Education organised by the General Teaching

The UK schooling system is so wedded to testing that this last few days has seen comprehensive media coverage of the ridiculous pressure students are put under with the

 CfL's LAW day is a great  idea and well aligned with our notion of a learning landscape. To find out more about Learning at Work Day, on 22

The Community Day School Network (California) will hold its annual conference Jan. 11-13, 2009 in Fresno, CA.

The International Democratic Education Conference (IDEC) will hold its annual conference August 11-18, 2008 in Vancouver, Canada.

AERO will hold its 5th annual conference June 26-29, 2008 in Troy, NY.

The National Charter Schools Conference will be June 22-25, 2008 in New Orleans.

The National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools will hold its annual conference May 15-18, 2008 in Paonia, Colorado.

The Michigan Alternative Education Organization will hold its annual conference April 30-May 2, 2008 in Kalamazoo

The Magent Schools of America  will hold its annual conference in Chattanooga, TN April 28-May 1, 2008.

IALA news - latest May blog entries http://www.learningalternatives.net/. Items include:

• Changing Traditional Schools: Impossible, Or....
• School Choice: New Study. 
• Research on Alternative Schools
• National and State Alternative Education Conferences (listed individually

Education at risk: Fall out from a Flawed Report is an article from Tamim Ansary a contributing writer to Edutopia. She writes about the 'Nation at Risk'report of