Telegraph – Reading at five ‘fails to boost skills’

Children forced to read from the age of five are no better than those left without books until their seventh birthday, according to research.   By Graeme Paton, Education Editor. Published: 10:00PM GMT 05 Jan 2010.  Read the article at http://tiny.cc/3ok5H

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EO Campaign Website updates to 07.03.2010

07.03.2010 A new article entitled Why write to Lords and MPs now and what to say has been posted on the EO Campaign website, http://www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org/update.php. 04.03.2010 A new article entitled Government

Designs for Learning – Transforming outdoor spaces for education

Designs for Learning       Transforming outdoor spaces for education – make this event part of your CPD Tuesday 23rd March 2010, The American School of London NW8    97% of teachers believe that

EO Campaign Website Updates to 02.02.2010

A new article entitled Committee Chair Receives Parliamentary Petition Against New Measures has been posted on the EO Campaign website, http://www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org/update.php. 02.02.2010 A new article entitled New readers start here:

Futurelab: Planning for the future – new resources available to inspire futures thinking

Planning for the future - new resources available to inspire futures thinking Make the Future A new video looking at ideas drawn in the main from research commissioned under the

ESRC Seminar Series. Violence and Childhood: International Perspectives.

Seminar 1: violence and the making of the subject Friday March 12. 9.30 to 5.30. Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX This seminar explores the role of violence in shaping

Futurelab: Thinking Space

A joint publication between CABE, Futurelab and Portsmouth City Council, 'Thinking Space' is a FREE workshop resource aiming to support people involved with redesign and rebuild projects, such

Learnovation Foresight Report

Learnovation Foresight Report The foresight activity, binding together ongoing results of desk and field research and consultation, finds its methodological tool in a DELPHI survey aimed at testing consensus

2010 Horizon Report

The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC’s Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have... download

Press release: Join in the ‘Future of Reading’ Literacy Forum at the Education Show

On Friday 5th March, the ‘Future of Reading’ Literacy Forum is taking place alongside the Education Show, with support from the National Literacy Association. Developed to delve deep

Press release: First Tutors goes free to attract new tutors

27 January - As the busiest period in the private tuition calendar approaches, First Tutors, www.firsttutors.co.uk, has made advertising tuition services free of charge for tutors across

From Ellen C Braun and Raising Small Souls

Oftentimes, a frenzied pace takes over our days as we frantically attempt to squeeze chauffeuring two children to three different after-school-activities, grocery shopping, a stop at the ATM

Press release: TEACHING IN 10 HOTTEST CAREERS PREDICTED FOR 2010

Career Energy, a specialist career management and outplacement consultancy, has today launched a free Career Guide highlighting the top ten career opportunities for people seeking to change their

AERO E-news 25.01.2010 – Top 5 Education Videos

AERO's Top 5 Education Videos Below is a list of our top five most viewed education videos during the past year. Enjoy! 1) John Taylor Gatto, Weapons of Mass Instruction

EO Campaign Site updates to 25.01.2010

25.01.2010 A new article entitled Education Otherwise Research into Home Education and Social Care has been posted on the EO Campaign website, http://www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org/update.php. 25.01.2010 A new article entitled Update from Education

Futurelab: ‘Building spaces for the future’

'Building spaces for the future’ is a FREE event that will draw on recent research by Futurelab about young people’s view of what learning spaces should look like

Notschool.net on You Tube

Notschool doesn't really need any introduction to the CPE-PEN network but not everyone will have seen this video Notschool.net is an international 'Online Learning Community' offering an alternative to

EO Campaign website updates 21.01.2010

21.01.2010 A new article entitled NEETs has been posted on the EO Campaign website, http://www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org/update.php. 21.01.2010 A new article entitled Education Otherwise letter to Minister Vernon Coaker has been posted on

Eclectic Lefty-hand: Conjectures on Jimi Hendrix, Handedness, and Electric Ladyland

14th January 2010. 27 Church Road, Hove, BN3 2FA, UK.       www.psypress.com/laterality Eclectic Lefty-hand: Conjectures on Jimi Hendrix, Handedness, and Electric Ladyland bit.ly/jimihendrix I always thought of Jimi as just coming

BBC Radio 4 Isn’t That Dangerous?: African Travels Among Academics and Other Wild Animals. Educational Heretics Press.

BBC Radio 4 Isn’t That Dangerous?: African Travels Among Academics and Other Wild Animals. Educational Heretics Press. If you're anything like me Saturday mornings wouldn't be the same without

Book Review: OVERSCHOOLED but UNDEREDUCATED

BOOK REVIEW by PHILIP TOOGOOD, Trustee of PERSONALISED EDUCATION NOW. Many thanks to Philip for this review of an important book. OVERSCHOOLED but UNDEREDUCATED by John Abbott with Heather MacTaggart ISBN

Creative writing course for HE younsters

Following the fantastic creative writing course in Yorkshire in 2009, Jan Fortune-Wood is offering a week's course for home-educated young people who love to write, create stories or poems and

Another 5,000 Charters Needed: Parental Demand for Charter Schools Surges 21% in One Year

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire As more low-income and minority parents seek to remove their children from traditional public schools that chronically underperform, waiting lists for America's public charter schools

AERO E-news 11.01.2010

Two DVDs at Excellent Prices: Alfie Kohn & Free to Learn from AERO http://www.educationrevolution.org/ e-news 11.06.2010  Free to Learn: A Radical Experiment in Education A Documentary by Jeff Root &

School of Everything: Talking about a Learning Revolution

Paul Miller | 11 January 2010 - 11:49am We've got some very good news. Over the next few months we're going to be working with Becta and the Department

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