Archive for October, 2007
Sunday, October 21st, 2007
The Home Based Education Program
Home education is an enduring practice that occurs successfully, worldwide. Clonlara School plays an important role by helping students turn their dreams and experiences into curriculum and credit. We work with families to design the educational approach that will fit the student, hand in glove. Our love of learning and respect for [...]
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Germany: Penalty Payment or Neubronners risen to 4,500
Dear friends,
we received a new penalty payment. We are supposed to pay 4,500 euro now, if our children do not visit school from 5th of November on. We will not pay this and we will not force our children to school. The authority then can
1. send police to our house to have them [...]
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
Quote of the Week: Douglas Adams
Quote of the Week
"Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after [...]
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
CoolStuff categories simplified
The categories under CoolStuff have been re-organized to provide better and easier navigation.
Your impressions of CoolStuff and more importantly your children’s impressions, since it was created primarily for their use, would be very helpful in determining what modifications might make it more useful for them.
Kent
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
Introduction
Hello,
I’m Kent, the site administrator and founder of the ‘Learning Freely Network’ websites. The ‘About’ link at the top of the page explains the history behind this site.
I created ‘Kent’s Place’ to express my personal views on a variety of learning issues. However I may raise issues concerning the web site and the network, [...]
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
Internet schools: The school on a sofa
At this time of year, thousands of parents are waiting anxiously to learn if their child has been offered a place at a decent secondary. But thousands of others are now opting for a radical alternative…
Picture a school with no walls. At this school there are no smelly changing-rooms, no lumpy gravy, [...]
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
California: Why Homeschool?
LIKE most parents, I had always looked forward to the day when my children would finally enter school. During those early years of infancy and toddlerhood, when mothering feels like such a full-time job, I would assure myself that I would have a glimpse of my old life back when my sons Jahan and Nirvan [...]
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
Map Navigation Improved
It is now possible to return to the maps after going to a category from a maps page.
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Educación Personalizada en los medios de prensa
Algunas notas realizadas a familias argentinas que educan en casa y en Familia
Hijos, saquen una hoja de Lucas Viano para La Voz del Interior 18/02/06
Cuando el hogar es también la escuela de Erica Sanchez para Diario Perfil 22/10/07
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
New Hampshire: At the top, and he’s only 14
Freshman scores 800 on SAT math section
Michael Buttolph is the youngest kid in his pre-calculus class. A 14-year-old freshman, he will have exhausted the math curriculum at his high school by the end of next year. When he begins the next step of [...]
