Rep. Matt Wingard on Oregon’s Virtual Schools, and the OEA’s efforts to Stop Them

One of the threats to those offering choice in the educational landscape is the continuing default positions of those in power and those dominant established interests. We see this in this country with home-based education. In the USA a current threat faces […]

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Other learning models video: Natomas Charter School Individualized Learning Program (ILP)

Natomas Charter School Individualized Learning Program (ILP) is a modified independent study program that serves students in grades 9-12 in Sacramento, CA. This small school setting offers students...

CfL: Creativity and Innovation- 99% Inspiration, 1% Perspiration?

Creativity and Innovation- 99% Inspiration, 1% Perspiration? 07 July 2009, 10am - 4pm (refreshments from 9.30am) Mary Ward House, Tavistock Place, London, WC1H 9SN £175 plus VAT **Special Friends' rate of

Press release: UniServity Announces Strategic Partnership with Microsoft

The ability of technology to connect learners, teachers, mentors and support collaboration grows at pace. If conceived and developed beyond the narrow confines of current schooling, further and higher

Postit Science Corporation – Brain Fitness News June 2009

Postit Science http://www.positscience.com/ Postit Science Corporation - Brain Fitness News June 2009. Two interesting items from the June e-newsletter A Delicious Defense Against Dementia? Scientists at Duke University have found

Personalised Education Now E-briefings

Many of you will still be aware that our E-briefing mailings have still not resumed. Unfortunately the mailing software provider - Zoodoka ceased trading and we are looking

Personalised Education Now – Membership 2009-2010

PEN Membership renewals are currently being processed. All renewals and new memberships are receiving a complimentary copy of  our partner Educational Heretics Press http://edheretics.gn.apc.org/ publication When Learning Becomes Your

Calling Parents of Alternatively Educated / Home Educated Children

Thanks to Helen Lees for this post. When I discovered the anture of alternative and home education and its difference to mainstream education, I had a sort of moment

Times online: Pupils free to rate teachers’ performance online

Times Online June 24, 2009. Mike Harvey, Technology Correspondent A court has ruled that schoolchildren may rate their teachers online, rejecting the case of a woman who argued that

Independent: Clare Whipple: Try teaching in Africa – you’ll long for Ofsted

If you want to hear a horror story it won't get much worse than this from the Indpendent newspaper.. Clare Whipple: Try teaching in Africa – you'll long for Ofsted Thursday

Guardian: Nearly a million young people not in work or education.

Nearly a million young people not in work or education. Recession is creating record numbers of 'neets', government figures show Anthea Lipsett guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 24 June 2009 09.03 BST

Telegraph: Four-year-olds given ‘therapy’ to improve behaviour.

Children as young as four should be given group therapy at school to control their behaviour, according to Ofsted.   By Graeme Paton, Education Editor. Published: 12:01AM BST 24 Jun

Telegraph:Student tuition fees ‘should increase’, says vice-chancellor

Student tuition fees 'should increase', says vice-chancellor. Universities should be allowed to increase the £3,100 cap on tuition fees, according to Professor Paul Wellings, a leading academic, who

Telegraph: ‘Victorian’ primary curriculum ruining children’s education, says academic

'Victorian' primary curriculum ruining children's education, says academic Primary school lessons are being reduced to "the trading of obsolete facts" simply to pass exams, according to Professor Robin Alexander,

Press release: Social networks and Internet need to be ‘interwoven together’ – EifEL

Social networks and Internet need to be ‘interwoven together’ – EifEL by Jason Seebaruth The social networks and Internet of tomorrow will mean existing as an ‘internet of subjects’

EO Campaign news: Roland Meighan Response to Review Report

A new article entitled Roland Meighan Response to Review Report has been posted on the EO Campaign website, http://www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org/update.php. The EO link reads Saturday 20 June Roland Meighan Response to Review

GLEF Edutopia – Digital Youth Portrait: Olivia

Edutopia News 17th June 2009 Interesting video portrait of Olivia. http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-profile-olivia-video   Although Without the means or easy access to the newest high tech tools, this resourceful and strong-willed

The National Union of Teachers has called for the Government to end child poverty and Sats testing.

Again our thanks to the  reporter Jason Seebaruth for this item: The National Union of Teachers has called for the Government to end child poverty and Sats testing.   Addressing delegates

Education must not serve the needs of business – UCU Monday, 15 June 2009

Our thanks to the reporter Jason Seebaruth for the following article: Education cannot be run as a business nor be seen as serving the needs of business, according to

Teachers Without Masks: a Sudbury Alternative

Teachers Without Masks: a Sudbury Alternative by Bruce Smith change.org blog Published June 13, 2009 @ 08:04AM PT http://education.change.org/ Interesting article re Sudbury schools and the subject of learner

EO Campaign website: EO Rejects Calls for Monitoring and Registration

A new article entitled EO Rejects Calls for Monitoring and Registration has been posted on the EO Campaign website,

Home education clampdown ‘an infringement of civil liberties’

Home education clampdown 'an infringement of civil liberties' Parents could be banned from educating children at home in a move branded a "very bad day for civil liberties". The

Independent review of home education

Graham Badman's report of his independent review of home education has been published today.   Please follow this link to the report, the government's response    http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/everychildmatters/homeeducation/ and this link to the

Home Education – Parliament. Hansard Text 9th June 2009

Text of this can be found at: http://tiny.cc/VwPtt

Press release: NUS Proposes Alternative To Top-Up Fees As Lost Generation Faces Summer Of Misery

The National Union of Students (NUS) today published radical proposals for an alternative means of funding universities in England, as the number of signatories of a Downing Street

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