YoungMinds announces shortlist for book award Throughout the summer young people from book groups, and schools have been reviewing books to whittle down a shortlist for the YoungMinds Book

Chris Shute was prompted after reading John Taylor Gatto to hold forth on assessment. He does so in his own inimitable and readable style. This extended article will

TED Talks TED.com week 08.09.2010. Sugata Mitra - Education Scientist There are some really great inputs on the weekly TED talks. Sugata Mitra's work is quite astonishing in illustrating

Given that schooling is completely comfortable in imposing itself  univited on children and young people during the daytime and then adding to the injustice sets about monopolising their

Some items from IALA (International Association for Learning Alternatives) News Autumn 2010 Linda Hammond-Darling on Choice Alternatives, the National Scene

1) Planning to Change the World: A Plan Book for Social Justice Teachers (BOOK) 2) Get all 24 talks

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Introduction Children don't Start Wars demonstrates the way our capacity for empathy develops as we grow up and declines as we grow older, and discusses the implications of this

AERO - Education Revolution Newsletter 08.08.2010 1) Progress Report on Fundraising Campaign to Sustain AERO (FUNDRAISER) 2) AERO's Fall Online

14 September 2010 The Royal Institute of British Architects, London 9:30 – 2:00 Join leading figures from schools, colleges and government to debate how to make learning more playful.

Education Revolution E-Newsletter 20.07.2010 Help Make Turning Points a Bestseller! (BOOK) Conference DVDs: Now Available for Sale! (DVDs)

Great news ... our very own Roland Meighan has just launched his own website.Its purpose is to make some of Roland's past research and other writings available

Britain's largest mobile learning initiative turns its attention to on-demand support for vocational learners and apprentices this summer. Trials taking place over the next 12 weeks will study

The Tall Ships Youth Trust’s 60m brig STAVROS S NIARCHOS arrives in London this Wednesday (14 July 2010) at the end of the 10th anniversary Voyage of Achievement,

Study shows Chile’s school voucher program increased graduation rates RENO, Nev. – With the effectiveness of school vouchers a hot topic of debate, researchers from the University of Nevada,

With thanks to David Gribble for this link PEACE NEWS SUMMER CAMP 2010 Oxfordshire, 23 - 27 July 2010 www.peacenewscamp.info Join people from across the broad spectrum of the British peace

Charles Leadbeater went looking for new forms of education - in the slums of Rio and Kibera, where the world's poorest kids are finding new ways to learn. TED

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