Thirty-one Republican senators are cosponsoring a resolution opposing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, according to the conservative group ParentalRights.org, which is pushing the resolution.
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The resolution, which you can read here, states that the convention "undermines traditional principles" of U.S. law and calls efforts to sign on to the treaty [...]
From Peter Gray on the 'Freedom To Learn' blog
For good evolutionary reasons, some people are highly impulsive.
Last month I posted an essay linking the dramatic increase in diagnosed ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) to our increasingly restrictive system of schooling (see ADHD and School). I presented evidence there that (a) the official, DSM-IV diagnostic criteria [...]
A speech on The home education conference: Groven Telemark Norway 10. of July 2010
by Christian W. Beck
Christian Beck is Professor of Education at the 'Institute of Educational Research' at the University of Oslo.
Thanks for the invitation, it's nice to be here.
Modern HE must be seen as a lack of confidence in the [...]
from 'I'm unschooled, yes I can write' blog
After brainstorming with a few different people, I've come up with a pretty vague outline for what I want this conference to look like. My vision for this conference, if you will. As things move further ahead, it may very well change, but right now, this is what [...]
ScienceDaily (Aug. 9, 2010) — Spanking has declined in the U.S. since 1975 but nearly 80 percent of preschool children are still disciplined in this fashion. In addition, corporal punishment of children remains common worldwide, despite bans on corporal punishment that have been adopted in 24 countries since 1979.
These are some of the more thought-provoking [...]
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The parents of a student in a northeastern Gothenburg suburb may no longer homeschool the child, the Supreme Administrative Court (Regeringsrätten) ruled on Thursday.
In its ruling, the court pointed out that the parents refused to cooperate in an investigation. They have homeschooled their son until the fifth grade, during which time he has passed national [...]
From 'Open Education' blog
Our mantra is free education for all.
So we are extremely partial to the resources that readers can access without shelling out their hard-earned cash. For that reason, we have watched closely, and with subsequent disappointment, the folks at the New York Times who appear destined to begin keeping some of their highly-valued [...]
From Peter Gray & the 'Freedom to Learn' blog
Dear readers,
As I pointed out in my last post, one in every eight boys and one in every twenty-five girls in the US has been diagnosed with ADHD (Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder), and most of them are taking powerful stimulant drugs as treatment. Surveys have shown that most [...]
An active engagement with musical sounds not only enhances neuroplasticity, but also enables the nervous system to provide the stable scaffolding of meaningful patterns so important to learning, researchers say. (Credit: iStockphoto/John Keith)
ScienceDaily (July 20, 2010) — Those ubiquitous wires connecting listeners to you-name-the-sounds from invisible MP3 players — whether of Bach, Miles Davis or, [...]
