A new article entitled Initial thoughts on Children Missing Education Consultation has been posted on the EO Campaign website,

Thanks to Alan Clawley for the following review:  Thomas, Alan and Pattison, Harriet, “How Children Learn at Home” (Continuum, 2008. ISBN: 9780826479990) This is a welcome addition to the growing body

Skomer Island turns high tech to beam wildlife into classrooms and across the world Schoolchildren can now get a close up experience of the wildlife on Skomer Island without

ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE/FULL PROFESSOR, CHILDHOOD STUDIES.  As part of an ongoing, multi-year effort to build its growing program, the Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey invites applications

Wayne Jennings flags up the new IALA website and continues with the following news items IALA is

Thanks to Iris Harrison for alerting us to this blog item. A really interesting article from a US unschooler who tried school. Read Kevin Snavley's experiences and thoughts.

Thanks to Karen Turner for bringing this to our attention. We have featured Sir Ken's entertaining videos before. This one is a few years old but nonetheless watchable!

US Exams Company to be put into Special Measures? “… schools have to revolve around the demands of simplistic little tests made on their pupils; where those tests can

A new article entitled 'Petition Closes Tomorrow' has been posted on the EO (Education Otherwise) Campaign website, http://www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org/update.php. The petition to raise awareness about home educators on Income Support

In July / August's Natural Life Magazine www.NaturalLifeMagazine.com  the editor Wendy Priesnitz responds to a new book by James Gustave Speth 'The Bridge at the Edge of

I like Charles Leadbeater - he's done much to try and shift thinking about education and schooling. His work on personalisation has been helpful. On 8th July John

Barnsley Council's new e-mentoring scheme is now available in every school in Barnsley.  The scheme is being provided by Truancy Call Ltd and here is a summary of

Press Release: Children’s workforce lacks training in mental health, says YoungMinds In response to the Governments independent review of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) YoungMinds, the children’s

The Centre for Personalised Education - Personalised Education Now and Educational Heretics Press willl be holding a learning exchange in Sedbergh on Setember 6th 2008. This continues our current

Personalised Learning: Taking Choice Seriously edited by Mark Webster. What happens if you start to take choice in education seriously? This was the theme of a challenging

Roland and Janet Meighan and myself attended HESFES 2008 on 28/29th June ( http://www.hesfes.co.uk/ ). It's become one

Beyond Current Horizons is a joint programme conducted by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and education innovators Futurelab. The programme is tasked with building a

Global Children, Global Media Migration, Media and Childhood. Liesbeth de Block, David Buckingham Children today are growing up in a world of global media. Many have also become global

The Twenty-First-Century Digital Learner: How tech-obsessed iKids would improve our schools. Fascinating article by Mark Prensky essentially about learner voice. Challenges mainstream educators to listen.  http://www.edutopia.org/ikid-digital-learner-technology-2008 'We treat

IALA news - latest May 15 blog entries http://www.learningalternatives.net/. Some fascinating items include:

• Baccalaureate Degree at Community Colleges!
• - In a stunning development, the Community College Baccalaureate

There is so much creative thought and practical energy in Shikshantar  http://www.swaraj.org/shikshantar/ Its really worth exploring the resources of their website and challenging some of our own accepted

From Eduptopia news http://www.edutopia.org/edutopianews.html for this link to a video of Sir Ken Robinson talking in April in San Franscisco.

From the Alite newsletter http://www.alite.co.uk/ Jane Rolph, Headteacher of Chapel Break Infant School. Jane reported on Outstanding Education, Learning and Care Providers' Conference following her school's highly successful Ofsted

A toolkit aimed at helping schools become more sustainable has been designed by NCSL. Whether you're just getting started or have done a lot of work in this