Archive for October, 2007
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Home schoolers get creative en route to higher education
Kate Cayley got into a Halifax university on the strength of an essay explaining her love for a 495-line poem. David Piechnik was accepted into art school in Vancouver after submitting a portfolio that included posters he designed for his church.
The duo is among the nation’s growing number of home schoolers who have knocked on [...]
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
The Learning Freely Forums are now on-line
A forums feature is now part of Learning Freely Network, and those who are registered members of the site are automatically registered on the forums as well.
What is important is for those of you who are already registered on the site, to start discussions in the forum. As it becomes more populated with people posting [...]
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
New Jersey: Keep hands off home schooling
New Jersey is one of only 10 states that does not require parents to notify their local school district if they choose to home-school their children. Those parents would like to keep it that way.
The government is right to butt out. Parents should be in charge of their children’s education, and home schooling is an [...]
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Clonlara School: The Home Based Education Program
The Home Based Education Program
Now in Resources category
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
New list of Coordinators by location
A new list of Coordinators has been strated and is accessible on Network Support category. This list makes it possible to find and post to coordinators without neccesarily going to the location category in the Category Tree or on the maps.
We had many more coordinators previously on the old AMN site, however some fallout has [...]
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
Coordinators & Contact Persons, by Location
Our Space
Coordinator
Location
Contact
Persons
Contact
Persons
Contact
Persons
Isa
Argentina
Anastasia Kuklina
Austria
Claudio Oliver
Brazil
[...]
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
Support In Australia
HBLN
The Home Based Learning Network of W.A.
The Home Based Learning Network was established in 1990 and incorporated in 1994 as a non-profit organization. We provide social contact and support for people involved in home based education, and are a non-party political and non-sectarian organization.
HEA
Home Education Association Inc.
The Home Education Association Inc. (HEA) supports, [...]
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Massachusetts: Northeast Unschooling Conference 2008
[ 22 May , 2008 9:00 to 24 May , 2008 17:00. ] Peabody, Massachusetts
A place where you can experience an unschooling community first hand. Where you can ask questions and get ideas from experienced unschoolers. No one will ask what curriculum you use. You will be surrounded by free families where kids are respected.
Whether your family has been unschooling for years, or is just getting started , [...]
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
German ‘ghost school’ uncovered after 30 years
· Alternative primary set up by parents in Bremen
· Find highlights concerns over state education
A secret school that was run for almost 30 years by parents disgruntled by the state education system has been discovered in the north German city of Bremen.
Several hundred children are believed to have passed through the unregistered alternative primary school, [...]
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Home-schoolers adjust easily to campus life
As the home-schooling movement edges toward the mainstream, its students are applying in greater numbers to colleges across the nation, with some colleges considering them an attractive niche market.
Vanderbilt does not actively target home-schooled students but views them as a crucial component of its institutional commitment to diversity.
"We want to understand each student, and in [...]
