Tag: political stuff
Lord Lucas (yes, again).
This time Lord Lucas is seeking opinions on the Welfare bill, which affects lone parents home educating. This is not a topic I know much about, but I’m sure some of you do, so tootle along to his blog and give him the benefit of your wisdom 🙂
Home education review and consultation – what can I do?
First thing of all – Don’t Panic! This is a long haul. The consultation period runs up to October, and even then we won’t actually be done fighting. If they then draw up legislation, there will be most likely be campaigning to be done at that point too. So get yourself settled down and ready…
I am not convinced.
I am not convinced by the existing research studies on the outcomes for home educated children both in this country and elsewhere. Although some (but not all) studies have found that home educated children outperform schooled children on a range of indicators, the results may be attributable to parental characteristics (e.g. better educated parents with…
A bit previous?
Given we’ve been told that the review is due out today, wonder why the BBC has just published this :Register call for home educators A review of home education in England is expected to recommend a national registration scheme for home educators. It is also expected to say local authorities should have the right to…
More political stuff, Mark Field on home ed.
Conservative MP Mark Field leads debate into home education and home education review. Conservative MP Mark Field sets out the concerns being raised in his Westminster Hall debate on home education. On January 19, the Department for Children, Schools and Families launched an independent review of home education by Graham Badman, former director of children…
Possibly the best reason for home education I've seen today
Timesonline Children ‘no longer reading for pleasure’ An emphasis on “functional literacy” in the classroom has left little time to read for pleasure, it was claimed. The comments by Frank Cottrell Boyce, who won the Carnegie Medal for children’s writing following the publication of his book Millions, come as a new campaign is launched to…
Not in my name.
EO has produced a pdf for the review which you can read here I would like to state for the record that I am not now a member of EO although we were during our first year or so of home ed, as I think many ppl are. My understanding of the organisation and of…
lookee who I found
in the Telegraph, Revealed: new teaching methods that are producing dramatic results Innovative headteachers at schools around the country are abandoning traditional chalk and talk teaching methods in favour of widely differing visions of an educational future. Judith Woods enters a world of spaced learning, praise pods, flexible Fridays and sixth-formers in business suits. This…
Isn't this the kind of thing that ppl end up in court over?
Would have thought that this sort of thing should class as incitement to terrorism given the other things that have been classed as that :/ The government has apologised for causing offence as it withdrew a school pack asking pupils to think about the 7 July attacks from the bombers’ view. The new teaching pack,…
Deborah Orr: No excuses only better schooling
Another of Labour’s supposed successes has been stripped of its baubles, with yesterday’s damning investigation into the state of Britain’s primary schools, describing them as being in “severely utilitarian and philistine timesâ€. I suppose one should be glad that the charade has finally been completely exposed. But I just feel so angry that what has…