AERO - Education Revolution Newsletter 08.08.2010 1) Progress Report on Fundraising Campaign to Sustain AERO (FUNDRAISER) 2) AERO's Fall Online

Contact: Wendy Priesnitz (416) 260-0303 or editor@LifeLearningMagazine.com Not Going Back to School is an Option It sounds like every kid’s dream: not to go back to school in September! But

14 September 2010 The Royal Institute of British Architects, London 9:30 – 2:00 Join leading figures from schools, colleges and government to debate how to make learning more playful.

Education Revolution E-Newsletter 20.07.2010 Help Make Turning Points a Bestseller! (BOOK) Conference DVDs: Now Available for Sale! (DVDs)

CSCY Global Childhood Studies Network of Researchers It may interest you to know that in 2009 the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth at the University of

Great news ... our very own Roland Meighan has just launched his own website.Its purpose is to make some of Roland's past research and other writings available

Britain's largest mobile learning initiative turns its attention to on-demand support for vocational learners and apprentices this summer. Trials taking place over the next 12 weeks will study

The Tall Ships Youth Trust’s 60m brig STAVROS S NIARCHOS arrives in London this Wednesday (14 July 2010) at the end of the 10th anniversary Voyage of Achievement,

Study shows Chile’s school voucher program increased graduation rates RENO, Nev. – With the effectiveness of school vouchers a hot topic of debate, researchers from the University of Nevada,

With thanks to David Gribble for this link PEACE NEWS SUMMER CAMP 2010 Oxfordshire, 23 - 27 July 2010 www.peacenewscamp.info Join people from across the broad spectrum of the British peace

“Anyone who thinks we are just shrinking what already exists on a personal computer simply The Future of 14-19 Vocational and Educational Training 21 July 2010, 11am- 1pm Campaign for

Sheffield Hallam Becomes First U.K. University to Go Mobile with Blackboard   New Apps Bring Courses and Campus Life to Mobile Devices   AMSTERDAM – 06 July, 2010 – Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq:

Charles Leadbeater went looking for new forms of education - in the slums of Rio and Kibera, where the world's poorest kids are finding new ways to learn. TED

Thanks to Gordon Hall of the Deming Learning Network (web sites: www.dln.org.uk & www.learningsociety.org.uk) for the following video link. Can we  bring to your attention an excellent

From Life Learning magazine, May/June 2008 Unexpected Benefits of Unschooling by Sandra Dodd

From AERO News 20.06.2010 Op-Ed: Are Kids Naturally Lazy or Natural Learners? Jerry Mintz It wouldn’t be so bad if the current education debate just involved different ways to achieve

NEWS RELEASE. June 17th, 2010 Thanks to Iris Harrison forwarding this from Julie Bunker Ofsted Home Education Report Seriously Flawed Says Graham Stuart MP Graham Stuart MP, who last week was

 Family Learning Festival. This autumn it takes place from 16-31 October 2010. Our newsletter has updates on the Festival and other news from the family learning world that

                                                                     Turning Points: 35 Visionaries in Education Tell Their Own Stories (Hardcover) AERO members have been waiting for this for over a year! The final version of Turning

Students' Perspectives on Schooling By Audrey Osler ISBN: 9780335223602 Open University Press Publication date 31 May 2010 www.openup.co.uk/osler<http://www.openup.co.uk/osler> Students' Perspectives on Schooling explores how schools might be transformed for the better, by giving

The Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University-Camden are excited to announce a new listserve catering to the multi-disciplinary field of Childhood Studies. Those of us who study

Race to Nowhere They're all talking about this film in North America. Race to Nowhere is to be released later this year. The website has plenty of information. Just

IALA - International Association of Learning Alternatives Blog Some interesting items on the IALA blog Blueprint School by Wayne Jennings I’ve waited for years for this marvelous book, Lives of Passion,

Peter Moss Professor of Early Childhood Provision Thomas Coram Research Unit 27-28 Woburn Square London WC1H 0AA peter.moss@ioe.ac.uk I would like to tell you about three new publications on early childhood education and