Dare to Know

A friend who did a teacher-training course last year told me that plenty of the teachers she spoke to found the recruitment TV ads for teach...

OK, I'm feeling a bit tetchy right now. It could be the flu, but I am pretty sure that even if I were in tip-top condition, I would be ...

We guessed it was bad, but it's nonetheless still galling to read yet more of the Local Authority responses to the DCSF's Consultat...

...a story from the Guardian which contains a perfectly legitimate reference to Hitler.

The home education community has recently been re-alerted to the fact that personal advisors (PAs) from the government's Connexions Car...

Talking of finding Orion , here's another project which involves identifying the constellation. "GLOBE at Night Event Taking Place...

To save you having to get out of bed at 3.00 am on Thursday, there's an animation here . I am quite sure I am being extremely witless, b...

From The Independent : "The psychologist Frank Smith in The Book of Learning and Forgetting chronicles how the current schooling model ...

...but this has helped.

They haven't got to the children so far, it seems! Despite the fact that my medical records and those of my husband (such as they are) a...

INT: CAR - ESTABLISHING SHOT Long journey. Children staring out of the window. DS stirs. DS: (to younger sister): You know what we're...

Trainee Paramedic .

here .

Finding Orion and navigating using the Pole Star is made easy here .

...at Brian Micklethwait's Education Blog

Jean Leidloff, author of The Continuum Concept , will be speaking in a number of venues in the UK in the near future. Although she underval...

...from yesterday's article in the Guardian, The Observer quotes Roland Meighan (previously Professor of Education at Notts University...

From the introduction to a highly desirable precis of Popper's Open Society and it's Enemies : " Western thought has been desc...

From 37 mins into Radio 4's Friday PM recording, Prof. James Conway reiterates some slightly peculiar ideas about home educators and c...

Apart from wondering both how researchers know that HEks don't spend so much time on computers, and why they assume that spending time u...