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20 Things I Learned About Homeschooling
Thinking about homeschooling your child? These 20 insights from Hand in Hand Parenting Instructor Lara Zane shed light on making the decision and what it […]
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Dancing to the Algorithm, by Dr Pam Jarvis
On the day that an exams algorithm robbed a significant number of working class children of the results they needed to access their university places, […]
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The Wrong Environment for a Child, by Jodie Smitten Bsc Psy. PgC Autism. MBPSs.
Hold on to your seats…. This may get a bit ranty! I absolutely love my job, the autistic children I get the privilege to meet […]
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The 20% Project for Schools – A Modest Proposal, by Derry Hannam
What young people need It seems to me that the crucial commodity that young people need in order to find and deepen their interests and identity, […]
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Education: Time For a Change? By Zoë Neill Readhead
I would rather Summerhill produced a happy street sweeper than a neurotic Prime Minister” A S Neill, pioneering funder of Summerhill School A lot of […]
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Free to Learn? By Dr Pam Jarvis
What is ‘freedom to learn’? Arguments on this point stretch back into history. For example, Alfred the Great of England (849–899) expressed a wish for […]
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Learn for Tomorrow. Now.
Parents and the State have an obligation to provide education for all children. To this end, compulsory education has been institutionalised and, depending on the […]
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Online Resources for Learning at Home During the Coronavirus Lockdown
Six weeks into lockdown, you might be looking for new inspiration for home-based activities for children and young people. We’ve pulled together 10 blogs and […]
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Unschooling Reading and Maths: Challenging our Fears, by Heidi Steel
Unschooling, in its most basic form, is living a life without school. It challenges us, as adults, to consider what learning looks like without school […]
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The New World of Home Learning, by Ian Cunningham
It is 2 April 2020 and we were in the early stages in England of the coronavirus or Covid-19 crisis. Schools have been closed and […]
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Staff of 2030: Future-Ready Teaching
In the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Staff of 2030: Future-Ready Teaching report Esther Wojcicki advocates “20% time” to introduce self-directed learning into the schedule: “This should […]
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I was a Teenage Governor
These papers are the reports of the first and second stages in the ‘I was a teenage governor’ project, organised by the Institute for Public […]
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“The Hannam Report” – Investigating the Impact of Student Participation on Education
This study from 2001, by Derry Hannam (a now retired state secondary school teacher, deputy/acting headteacher and Ofsted inspector) evaluates the impact of the student […]
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Home Schooled Children’s Social Skills
“Research affirms that although homeschooling parents are not worried about their children’s social development, they do care about it. In fact, they are strongly committed […]
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Summer Born Report
The Campaign for Flexible School Admissions for Summer Born Children, or “Summer Born Campaign” was launched by parents, carers and professionals who believe that a summer […]
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A Healthy Foundation for the Future
A report by The Health Foundation (2019) found that 80% of teachers feel that the focus on exams has become disproportionate to the focus on […]
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The Hole in the Wall Project and the Power of Self-Organized Learning
“…we did extensive research in self-directed learning, in many places and through many cultures. Each time, the children were able to develop deep learning by […]
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Home School Vs State School
Specific Differences in the Educational Outcomes of Those Students who are Home Schooled Vs. Students in a Traditional School Setting This report (by Kathi Moreau, […]
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Home Schooling: From the Extreme to the Mainstream
A study by Patrick Basham, John Merrifield, and Claudia R. Hepburn This is the 2nd edition of a study published by The Fraser Institute (2007). […]
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Research into Children’s Rights Education
A Review of Recent Research into Children’s Rights Based Education in State Schools in Hampshire, England by Derry Hannam for the Spring 2011 edition of […]
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Do Students Need to “Catch Up?”
There is much talk in the news at the moment about students needing to “catch up” post Covid-19, but is this extra pressure on parents, […]
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‘Drill and kill’ for England’s state schools while private sector goes progressive
“As ministers persist with traditional teaching, including children sitting in rows, independent schools have switched to team and project-based learning. There’s been a huge change […]
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The Long, Insidious Shadows of Colonialism
“There’s a virus going around. You may have heard of it. It’s highly infectious and can infect whole swathes of the population at any given […]
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The Black British History You May Not Know About
This article points out that the transatlantic slave trade and the US civil rights movement are largely the only black history taught in UK schools, […]
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Coronavirus shows us it’s time to rethink everything. Let’s start with education.
Guardian columnist, George Monbiot says that now is the time for a Great Reset. “I believe that education should work outwards from our principal challenges […]
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Headteachers Call for a Kinder School System
Ten years since Michael Gove’s reforms began, coronavirus shows up their failings, says the Headteachers’ Roundtable – and offers a chance for change. Ros McMullen, […]
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School’s Really Out…
Clinical psychologist, Dr Naomi Fisher with an update to her recent article, as children learn at home during the coronavirus pandemic. “On a global scale, […]
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School Refusal: Crime, Mental Disorder, or Human Right?
“Views on school refusal depend on beliefs about children and human rights.” Read the full article here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freedom-learn/202002/school-refusal-crime-mental-disorder-or-human-right Published by: Psychology Today Date: February 2020 […]
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School’s Out… Arguments for Self-Directed Education
“I set out to find out more about education where children are active agents. Perhaps the most radical type of all is self-directed education, where […]
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Coronavirus Reminds Us What Education Without Schooling Can Look Like
“The coronavirus outbreak might help some parents discover better alternatives outside of traditional schooling.” Read the full article here: https://fee.org/articles/coronavirus-reminds-us-what-education-without-schooling-can-look-like/ Published by: Foundation for Economic […]
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