Dare to Know

So here (finally), is the press release re the DSCF's "day of debate to shape our children's future". Of course if you ar...

"Channel 4 News Online reveals that the number of children being schooled at home has risen by more than 60% in the past 5 years. More ...

According to Peter Oborne, it is much less so than of old. He writes in the Spectator this week: "...the (new) Political Class is deepl...

..."100% better" (than school). From 47 mins into this broadcast, (after the Django Rheinhardt-style music) - a piece from Trave...

Via HEOS , Isabel Lynam of Homeschooling Revolution writes about homeschooling for the Ludwig Von Mises Institute

...in the US , at least. The Belgians seem to be getting the point too. Again via HE&OS .

...is rising , despite the new initiative to identify children missing from education, and despite the effort that goes into picking abscon...

Despite the fact that we are actually none the wiser following the recent Freedom of Information result, as to what caused the softening of...

via Pete , this one had to do the rounds.

A scheme offering GCSE maths and English for home educated teens, looks to be one of the first useful things that LAs around the country ha...

So much for transparent government! Following the latest request for information on all internal correspondence within the DCSF on elective...

Pamela Armstrong tells it as it is in the Gloucestershire Echo . She explains that the controls already in place are adequate to deal with t...

...for you may not know what you say. Take, for example, a phrase from Nottinghamshire's Elective Home Education Guidelines - page 4, p...

Home Education will be discussed once again on The Wright Stuff , Channel Five, from about 09.00 hours, today, Monday 3rd Sept. Home Educat...

Barbara (of AHEd ) and her family rock in this Radio 4 piece about autonomous HE. (From 36 mins on the Listen Again Tab). Loads of memor...

From an alert issued by Education Otherwise : "Home educators should be aware that from 1 September 2007 there is new statutory guidanc...

which features the Shepherd family once again, is sadly not as insightful as Dave Hill's article in April's Guardian, the best bit...

...after 26 hours in labour, a beautiful girl, 8lbs 2 oz for DD and MD. Almost unbelievable. I keep pinching myself. Many, many congratula...

Will be signing up to this one, naturally enough. See Wobbly Moo's post if you need to be reminded of the reasons why we should.

From the Telegraph, a piece from Cassandra Jardine on the pain of going to school, which is accompanied by a photo of a miserable child, su...