Archive for 2008
Sunday, May 18th, 2008
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
Press Release: 70 years compulsory school
Source: Netzwerk Bildungsfreiheit
In Freedom Learning Is Better
70 Years of compulsory school attendance are enough - this relic has outlived its usefulness.
When the national socialistic leadership under Adolf Hitler and Reichsminister Dr. Rust signed the Reichsschulgesetz (Reich/Imperial School Legislation) in Berchtesgaden on July 6, 1938, they could not have imagined that the essential components of this [...]
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
Article: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education
One of the more interesting reads is William Deresiewicz’s “The Disadvantages of an Elite Education” at AmericanScholar.org. Once an English professor at Yale, Deresiewicz is brutal in noting the many shortcomings of such an education.
Subtitled “Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make
minds, not careers,” the one time professor hammers [...]
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
North Carolina task force recommends homeschool oversight beyond age of compulsory attendance
A state task force that examined the death of a 4-year-old boy who died in 2006 has called for more oversight for children taught at home.
The N.C. Department of Social Services made the recent recommendations in its report on the death of Sean Paddock, a Smithfield boy killed by his adoptive mother. Lynn Paddock, who [...]
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Virtual Worlds Offer Meaningful Educational Opportunities for Children
The recent work of two University of Westminster professors could ultimately set the stage for a revamped learning process for children. The ground-breaking research of Lizzie Jackson and David Gauntlett features an extensive look at children and the learning experiences available to them when they have the opportunity to explore a virtual world.
The potential to [...]
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
California: Homeschool is a constitutional right for parents
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Can California force parents to send their children outside the home for their education, regardless of the quality of instruction they receive at home? Today, the California Court of Appeal in Los Angeles will hear arguments in a case raising this issue - the constitutional rights of parents to direct the education [...]
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
California: Home-schooling in court
DEBATE ON WHETHER TEACHING CREDENTIALS ARE NEEDED REOPENS
With the battle lines drawn, a state appeals court in Los Angeles today will once again consider a controversial case that could drastically affect the growing home-school movement in California.
The 2nd District Court of Appeal will hear arguments in a legal fight over whether parents who home-school [...]
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
MINISTERE DE LA COMMUNAUTE FRANÇAISE
25 AVRIL 2008
Décret fixant les conditions pour pouvoir satisfaire à l’obligation scolaire en dehors de l’enseignement organisé ou subventionné par la Communauté française (1)
Le Parlement de la Communauté française a adopté et Nous, Gouvernement, sanctionnons ce qui suit :
CHAPITRE Ier. - Principes
Article 1er. Pour l’application du présent décret, on entend par personnes responsables les personnes [...]
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
CRIMINALIZING HOMESCHOOLING
Source: Netzwerk Bildungsfreiheit, Germany
From Germany: a press release concerning Homeschooling
Homeschooling is a criminal offense, comparable to a trucker who repeatedly gets behind the wheel drunk. At least this is the opinion of Chief Judge Becker, who has sentenced the Dudek family to three (3) months imprisonment without parole.
With this verdict the judge maintains the ignoble [...]
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Riksorganisationen för Hemundervisning i Sverige
bildades 2008-05-25.
Medlemsansökan, kallelse till årsmöte, organisationsnummer mm - kommer inom kort.
Fösta årsmötet blir på hemundervisningskonferensen V.31 söndag 27 juli — lördag 2 augusti 2008.
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