Dare to Know

...have been turned down by the DCSF has finally emerged . As Maire says, it seems to be OK to suggest false things about home educators, a...

.. .here. Well, if that isn't embarrassing, I don't know what is! First he writes a report which makes recommendations on the evi...

South Devon London Norfolk and again. Cambridgeshire Cumbria Birmingham Kent, Sussex, Surrey Bristol Yorkshire Oxford and again. Stroud ...

My letter to comments on the Draft Legislative Programme: "Dear Sir/Madam I am writing with regard to a clause in the Improving School...

... a lovely day out : lots of old friends and new faces, lots of leaflets about the problems with the Badman recommendations handed out, t...

Details at the Not Back to School Blog.

...then they came for drivers, now they come for practically anyone who volunteers to help out with children. You could replace the word ...

It's a postcode lottery. A statement from the DCSF about the statistics used by Badman to support his recommendations: "The proport...

...is profoundly opposed to schools, labelling them an utter waste of a young life. Wonder if he knows anything about the alternatives?

Julie Garrett and another home educating mum and her girls do a fantastic job at 2 hours and 51 mins.

A research professor of psychology demonstrates a real understanding of the problem and its solution.

They have their children taken away apparently. UPDATE: whilst these genuinely vulnerable children appear to have been neglected by an und...

here.

More objections to Badman.

...presents Samuel on the subject of home education.

Th e writer misspelled Brookes , and make it sound as if Rob was saying something he wasn't, but hey ho, it's still good to hear th...

Preliminary notes available here.

...is getting some advance notice in the press. There are now over 20 such events going on pretty much everywhere throughout England, mostl...

From Cambridge University's Faculty of Education, a report (PDF) which has a good pop at both the National Curriculum and the Rose Rev...

..from a House of Commons' Briefing note .