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Janey Lee Grace reports that she isn't quoted accurately in this piece in the Times, but she still comes across well, unlike Mr Smither...

....to study science .

It's rare nowadays that my assumptions about how the world works get really shaken up. You know, you take multiverses in your stride, s...

This terrible news has resulted in some predictable soul-searching on home education mailing lists along the lines of "should home ed...

Oh honestly, will yet more Ofsted inspections really make the difference to failing schools? From an outsider's perspective, the utter ...

This one from the Telegraph: "This is the spirit we need to bring to education: the less school, the better. We need to explore other ...

...in the Times: "In the QI edition of The Idler , Lloyd and Mitchinson present a five-point manifesto for educational reform. One: pla...

From a Barbara Ellen column entitled Let Teachers Teach and Leave Parents to Raise Children: "Make 'home parenting' like 'h...

OK, the actual reported evidence for this in this Guardian article is scant to say the least, and the chances that the overall message will ...

From Action for Home Education's recent Press Release : "Former home educator, Karen Best, who was a lone parent reliant entirely ...

There's yet more on the link between bullying in schools and home education, this time in the Scotsman.

....from Bridport.

Despite the relatively benign Elective Home Education Guidelines which came out in Nov 2007, the majority of LA websites continue to make...

... in N. Ireland .

Switch Zoo, including Where do I Live. UPDATE: There are two rather satisfactory new BBC games - Questionaut and Viral Vinnie here .

Sadly, this tale of a school's incompetence in dealing with bullying is not unique. Only yesterday at a home education meeting, we spok...

From the Children's Commissioner's new website: "The Children’s Commissioner for England , Sir Al Aynsley-Green, has launched a...

...this time from the Telegraph "Like world peace, "early education" sounds like a no-brainer - how can anyone quibble wi...

...and could be damaging. So says Dr Katz in an article from the Beeb that I must have missed at the time. We have seen the evidence for ...

Brian Micklethwait raised the following point with regard to the research from the Fraser Institute. "The usual assumption, which I ha...