http://www.learningfreely.net Natural Learning, Unschooling, and other Home based Education. people, families and support groups Fri, 16 May 2008 09:38:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.learningfreely.net/index.php/2007/10/21/the-home-based-education-program/ States are investing considerable amounts of money in pre-kindergarten programs for 4-year-olds. A new study finds that the quality of interactions between teachers and children plays a key role in accounting for gains in children's development when compared to typical quality indicators such as teachers' education, class size, and child-to-teacher ... http://www.learningfreely.net/index.php/2008/05/15/forget-teacher-education-level-pre-k-students-benefit-most-when-teachers-are-supportive/ Teenagers today face increasing pressures and demands from school and home. New research has found that stress at home affects adolescents' school life, and vice versa. What's more, that stress lasts for two days and affects academic performance across the high school years. The research, carried out at the University of ... http://www.learningfreely.net/index.php/2008/05/15/spillover-effects-of-family-and-school-stress-linger-in-adolescents-daily-lives/ KUSA - In a world that revolves around structure, more parents nationwide are letting their kids learn without structure, and they say it is working. “We found out that it was more helpful for him to learn if he got to pick and choose what he wanted to learn,” said Kawai ... http://www.learningfreely.net/index.php/2008/05/10/colorado-unschooling-method-grows-in-popularity-2/ Truancy statistics show that more than 348,000 pupils in England are classified as being at risk of becoming "persistent truants".   news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7385275.stm http://www.learningfreely.net/index.php/2008/05/06/348000-persistent-truant-risk/ The Problem and A Solution This two-part essay was written by my unschooled teen son for his Composition I college class. Zach has been radically unschooled for the past five years and relaxed homeschooled prior to that. He's never been to school except to play clarinet in a band and beginning ... http://www.learningfreely.net/index.php/2008/04/22/video-games-and-parenting-by-an-unschooled-teen/ We are looking for volunteers to help coordinate their local networks with the International Learning Freely Network. Coordinators and Contact persons play a very important role toward connecting  Natural Learners, Unschoolers and others seeking learning freedom, throughout the world. communication and sharing information are what makes such a network function ... http://www.learningfreely.net/index.php/2008/04/19/lfn-is-seeking-volunteers-in-multiple-locations-to-be-the-lfnet-coordinator-for-those-locations/ Hello All Coordinators, The on site mail plugins for WordPress 2.5  are not dependable so messages to the Coordinators group will be posted here (latest on top). You must be logged in to read these, they are marked "private" not published. You can comment or write posts in this 'Coordinators' category There had been ... http://www.learningfreely.net/index.php/2008/04/19/coordinators-on-site-publishing-now-active-again-and-working/ CONCORD, N.H. -- Parents of home-schooled children asked lawmakers Tuesday to reject a proposal to increase state oversight of what they teach. Bill Would Require Home Schools To Submit First-Year Plan A bill being considered by a House committee would require parents to submit a one-page plan for a home-school student's first ... http://www.learningfreely.net/index.php/2008/04/17/new-hampshire-home-school-parents-speak-out-against-oversight-bill/ Hi, There are two websites now that are partly or entirely written in English: Life without School in Austria - Leben ohne Schule in Österreich About home education in Austria in general, though the focus is on the child-led spectrum. Unschooling in Austria? ... http://www.learningfreely.net/index.php/2008/04/16/support-in-austria-update/