Thanks to Gordon Hall of the Deming Learning Network (web sites: www.dln.org.uk & www.learningsociety.org.uk) for the following video link. Can we  bring to your attention an excellent

From Life Learning magazine, May/June 2008 Unexpected Benefits of Unschooling by Sandra Dodd

From AERO News 20.06.2010 Op-Ed: Are Kids Naturally Lazy or Natural Learners? Jerry Mintz It wouldn’t be so bad if the current education debate just involved different ways to achieve

NEWS RELEASE. June 17th, 2010 Thanks to Iris Harrison forwarding this from Julie Bunker Ofsted Home Education Report Seriously Flawed Says Graham Stuart MP Graham Stuart MP, who last week was

 Family Learning Festival. This autumn it takes place from 16-31 October 2010. Our newsletter has updates on the Festival and other news from the family learning world that

                                                                     Turning Points: 35 Visionaries in Education Tell Their Own Stories (Hardcover) AERO members have been waiting for this for over a year! The final version of Turning

Students' Perspectives on Schooling By Audrey Osler ISBN: 9780335223602 Open University Press Publication date 31 May 2010 www.openup.co.uk/osler<http://www.openup.co.uk/osler> Students' Perspectives on Schooling explores how schools might be transformed for the better, by giving

The Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University-Camden are excited to announce a new listserve catering to the multi-disciplinary field of Childhood Studies. Those of us who study

Race to Nowhere They're all talking about this film in North America. Race to Nowhere is to be released later this year. The website has plenty of information. Just

IALA - International Association of Learning Alternatives Blog Some interesting items on the IALA blog Blueprint School by Wayne Jennings I’ve waited for years for this marvelous book, Lives of Passion,

Peter Moss Professor of Early Childhood Provision Thomas Coram Research Unit 27-28 Woburn Square London WC1H 0AA peter.moss@ioe.ac.uk I would like to tell you about three new publications on early childhood education and

Wyse Introduces Innovative Computing Concepts for Digital Inclusion with "12 Volt Car Battery-Powered" Thin Client and "Cloud-Connected Classroom on a Bus" for Remote Communities in Africa   Wyse Demonstrates Ultra-low

Whole Education. This is a new Whole Education Alliance, recently set up by the RSA, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and others to ensure that our schools stop wasting

Some items from AERO's E-newsletter 27.05.2010 College Without High School: A Teenager's Guide to Skipping High School and Going to College (BOOK) By Blake Boles High school can be boring.

John Hamilton lecture GIVEN BY: LAURIE TAYLOR Inaugural lecture of the John Hamilton Lifelong Learning Lectures at the University of Liverpool on the 28th June 2010. 5.30pm, Monday 28 June

Some items from AERO's  May E-news "Democratic Education: Foundations & Principles," a talk by Isaac Graves (VIDEO). The following talk was delivered at Voyagers' Community School's 2nd Annual Education

BESA Research ‘ICT use by primary pupils at school and home’ released Majority of schools agree home internet access and games consoles benefit children’s education Research by the British Educational

Independent: Best of both worlds: The new trend of flexi-schooling. By Helen McNulty. 20th May 2010 Although we'd hardly agree with Helen that this is a new trend Niamh, aged

With thanks to David Gribble for the link to the articles below on Lib-Ed http://www.libed.org.uk/articles.html DIE, DIE, DIE A comment on the case of the teacher who attacked a