Dare to Know

A blog which is mainly about home educating in the UK.

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Home Educators Letting the Side Down?

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Edspresso has a post putting the counter-arguments to the collectivist objection to homeschooling, as expressed by anthropology professor G...
Monday, April 02, 2007

The Evolved Homeschooler

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Chris appears to have been hard at work, producing a wiki for Evolved Homeschoolers . "The idea is that rational homeschoolers are welc...
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Sunday, April 01, 2007

School Turned into a Homeschool Resource Centre

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I don't think this is all about the date, though it does seem almost too good to believe. Anyway, courtesy of Key Words , we hear that: ...
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Midlands Campaign Workshop

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Well that was extremely satisfactory. An enormous thank you should go out to Fiona Nicholson and Annette Taberner for providing very conv...
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Saturday, March 31, 2007

That Letter (in full)

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from Lord Adonis: "There is no specific duty in statute on LAs to monitor parents' education provision. However, it is our view th...
Friday, March 30, 2007

Tony Mooney Is At It Again

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The response from the home education community to Tony Mooney's latest pronouncements on HE in the TES has been impressive, immediate a...
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This Was Not about Home Education

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From the The Times Educational Supplement, Scotland , we see Alison Preuss of Schoolhouse dealing very effectively with an attempt to smear ...

For Another Hot Potato

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...go see the BBC 's article on EO's campaign to expose the dubious local authority practice of encouraging parents of persistent tr...
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Micro-Mismanagement

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If you don't believe me about this government being ineptly meddlesome, try this post from Bishop Hill by way of support for this argum...
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Leave Us Alone

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With regard to the raising of the school leaving age to 18, Edward Pearce puts up an almost nostalgic plea for even very moderate libertaria...

US Study Implies that Home Schooling Promotes Social Mobility

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From Homeschooling in Perspective , we hear that the National Home Education Research Institute found that in test scores "homeschool s...
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Thursday, March 29, 2007

Miserable Work Force

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Further on the reasons for thinking that it is worth trying to improve the work situation rather than acquiescing in unhappiness, we gather...
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The New Diplomas Set for 2008

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6502819.stm

Schools Not Fit for Purpose

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From BBC News , we hear that "Most current school buildings pre-date the computer age and are "obsolete" as learning environm...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

The Autonomous Child in the Workplace?

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From the discussion in comments here , it seems that there is some anxiety as to how autonomously educated children will ever fit into hiera...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

What Can be Done to Reclaim Childhood?

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Any Home Educators out there brave enough to face a Telegraph comment section?
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Monday, March 26, 2007

Autonomous Learning

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Gill explains what autonomous learning looks like.

Special Needs Children Bullied in Schools

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No wonder there is such a high number of children with Asperger syndrome amongst the Home Education community, though actually bullying in ...
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Sunday, March 25, 2007

An Autonomous Educator's Answer to LEA Inspector

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From Sometimes It's Peaceful : "So have home educating families with autonomous learning children got anything to fear from their L...
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Saturday, March 24, 2007

Examining Entrenched Memes

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...at the E.G.West Centre which has a hefty number of links on the subject of compulsory education. HT: Tibetan Star
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