Our latest learning exchange was a very successful day. For the first time CPE-PEN conducted its AGM within the proceedings. Network members heard inputs accounting the latest work from

Some people think, stereotypically, that women who choose to work at home so they can facilitate life learning for their children are regressively un-feminist. So unschooling pioneer and

A new article entitled Council Gives Home Educating Parents £10,000 to Pay for Tutor has been posted on the EO Campaign website, http://www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org/update.php. This really is a first! Poisoned

A new article entitled Over three thousand people signed the petition challenging the Home Education Review has been posted on the EO Campaign website,

AERO's Blog: Contains Link to Free Full-Length 2008 AERO Keynote Talks Including Deborah Meier   AERO has just re-launched its blog which will now be updated on a weekly, if

The message comes from UK online centres, who today welcomed John Denham’s White Paper, which puts informal learning and widening participation firmly back on the adult skills agenda.  Managing

 Alternative Education: Standards, Descriptions,

Roland Meighan, one of our CPE-PEN trustees and directors responds to Bernard Trafford's Guardian letter. Dr Roland Meighan  D.Soc.Sc., Ph.D., B.Sc.(Soc)., L.C.P., Cert.Ed., and Fellow of the Royal Society of

The Guardian Tuesday 31st March 2009 http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/mar/31/home-schooling  People are likely to stand back and think when Dr Bernard Trafford, one of the UK's leading headteachers speaks out in

Free Application Lets Users Tap Into Mobile Learning Opportunities WASHINGTON—March 26, 2009—Building on its efforts to engage students and learners in a more personalized learning experience, Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ:

Manchester Hosts Leading Education Show for Teachers, Parents and Carers  Event:             Special Needs North 2009 Date:               24 & 25 April 2009 Location:        Manchester Central (formerly known as GMEX)    Special Needs North 2009

Links here to Dougald Hine's own blog, his writing and a video about Ivan Illich. Those of you who are members of CPE-PEN will remember his recent PEN Journal article

What about the Children? Participation, Provision, Protection Title: Children as Citizens? Subtitle: International Voices In store from: March 2009. RRP: $45.00. ISBN 978 1 877372-62-9 Otago University Press Dunedin New Zealand The 20th anniversary of

AERO E-Newsletter 25th March 2009 http://www.educationrevolution.org/fre.html Contents: 1) Reactions to President Obama Speech on Education 2) Two Great New Alfie Kohn DVDs  No Grades + No Homework = Better Learning  Unconditional Parenting 3) Nel

A new article entitled ContactPoint is \"almost certainly illegal\" has been posted on the EO Campaign website,

Informal learning could be a leveller for excluded groups Informal adult learning should target the socially excluded, and make the most of new technologies to level the learning playing

These Futurelab sessions are always thought provoking and push at the boundaries of mainstream eductaional thinking. The Future of Education: Research Discussion Day 10am - 4pm, Tuesday 19th May 2009 British

From AERO's 9th March 2009 E-News AERO's New Website After months of planning AERO is proud to announce the launch of our newly re-designed website, www.EducationRevolution.org.  Please take the

A new article entitled EO Press Release: Petition Challenging Home Education Review in Top 50 on Downing St Site has been posted on the EO Campaign website,

Schools on Report 23 April 2009, 11am - 1pm £99 plus VAT **Friends' rate £89.10 plus VAT A School Report Card: consultation document, jointly published by the DCSF and Ofsted, sets

From Germany Frank J Muller and the Definitely Inclusive group write 'We are trying to build an international database and discussion plattform for the various definitions of inclusion/inclusive education.

www.deafnessresearch.org.uk Inaugural Deafness Research UK conference on paediatric audiology Event to mark National Knowledge Week for Hearing 2009 Leading national charity Deafness Research UK is organising a groundbreaking children's audiology

OpenEYE consists of a unique and growing multi-disciplinary team of experts who have come together through a shared concern about Early Childhood in the UK. They have the

PEN Comment There are a number of interesting items from Antidote in this months E-News including: subscribe at  http://www.antidote.org.uk/   Devolving power, increasing diversity If you like the Cambridge Primary