The Lessons: Hi Stakes Testing = Mis-Education A short video that contrasts the disastrous high stakes testing syndrome with a more creative cultural competency-based form of evaluating a student's

The Times, January 1st 2010. Nicola Woolcock, Education Correspondent.

Children forced to read from the age of five are no better than those left without books until their seventh birthday, according to research.   By Graeme Paton, Education Editor.

07.03.2010 A new article entitled Why write to Lords and MPs now and what to say has been posted on the EO Campaign website, http://www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org/update.php. 04.03.2010 A new article entitled Government

Designs for Learning       Transforming outdoor spaces for education – make this event part of your CPD Tuesday 23rd March 2010, The American School of London NW8    97% of teachers believe that

Planning for the future - new resources available to inspire futures thinking Make the Future A new video looking at ideas drawn in the main from research commissioned under the

Seminar 1: violence and the making of the subject Friday March 12. 9.30 to 5.30. Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX This seminar explores the role of violence in shaping

A joint publication between CABE, Futurelab and Portsmouth City Council, 'Thinking Space' is a FREE workshop resource aiming to support people involved with redesign and rebuild projects, such

Learnovation Foresight Report The foresight activity, binding together ongoing results of desk and field research and consultation, finds its methodological tool in a DELPHI survey aimed at testing consensus

The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC’s Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have... download

On Friday 5th March, the ‘Future of Reading’ Literacy Forum is taking place alongside the Education Show, with support from the National Literacy Association. Developed to delve deep

27 January - As the busiest period in the private tuition calendar approaches, First Tutors, www.firsttutors.co.uk, has made advertising tuition services free of charge for tutors across

Oftentimes, a frenzied pace takes over our days as we frantically attempt to squeeze chauffeuring two children to three different after-school-activities, grocery shopping, a stop at the ATM

Career Energy, a specialist career management and outplacement consultancy, has today launched a free Career Guide highlighting the top ten career opportunities for people seeking to change their

25.01.2010 A new article entitled Education Otherwise Research into Home Education and Social Care has been posted on the EO Campaign website, http://www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org/update.php. 25.01.2010 A new article entitled Update from Education

'Building spaces for the future’ is a FREE event that will draw on recent research by Futurelab about young people’s view of what learning spaces should look like

21.01.2010 A new article entitled NEETs has been posted on the EO Campaign website, http://www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org/update.php. 21.01.2010 A new article entitled Education Otherwise letter to Minister Vernon Coaker has been posted on

14th January 2010. 27 Church Road, Hove, BN3 2FA, UK.       www.psypress.com/laterality Eclectic Lefty-hand: Conjectures on Jimi Hendrix, Handedness, and Electric Ladyland bit.ly/jimihendrix I always thought of Jimi as just coming

BBC Radio 4 Isn’t That Dangerous?: African Travels Among Academics and Other Wild Animals. Educational Heretics Press. If you're anything like me Saturday mornings wouldn't be the same without

BOOK REVIEW by PHILIP TOOGOOD, Trustee of PERSONALISED EDUCATION NOW. Many thanks to Philip for this review of an important book. OVERSCHOOLED but UNDEREDUCATED by John Abbott with Heather MacTaggart ISBN

Following the fantastic creative writing course in Yorkshire in 2009, Jan Fortune-Wood is offering a week's course for home-educated young people who love to write, create stories or poems and

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire As more low-income and minority parents seek to remove their children from traditional public schools that chronically underperform, waiting lists for America's public charter schools

Two DVDs at Excellent Prices: Alfie Kohn & Free to Learn from AERO http://www.educationrevolution.org/ e-news 11.06.2010  Free to Learn: A Radical Experiment in Education A Documentary by Jeff Root &

Paul Miller | 11 January 2010 - 11:49am We've got some very good news. Over the next few months we're going to be working with Becta and the Department