That is the headline we never see when a tragedy unfolds, ok so it’s hardly big news is it? Most children go to school. This is something that social scientists refer to as an “unmarked identity”, that is: something which is taken for granted, a social norm.
From 'Open Education' blog
Are you interested in giving your children practice time on some of those all important keyboarding skills? At the same time, have you made the move to support the open source movement and left those from expensive proprietary operating systems behind?
Today you can easily accomplish both as open source modules continue to [...]
Learning Freely Network (LFN) is seeking volunteers for this communications role.
The purpose is to expand the information already provided on LFN, by providing News, Legalities, Support Group and Articles Etc. from each of the the worldwide locations on LFN:
Continents or by Maps
Bring supportive information to those involved with freedom in learning and those [...]
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 [...]
By Sara McGrath
A practical handbook on learning without school
Description
People who feel drawn to the philosophical ideals of unschooling often ask how to unschool. While acknowledging that each family approaches the unschooling lifestyle from a unique standpoint, I offer the details of my family’s experiences, along with specific advice for meeting legal requirements without sacrificing your [...]
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, [...]
From Peter Gray's 'Freedom To Learn' blog
ADHD diagnoses derive from schools' intolerance of normal human Diversity.
According to the most authoritative recent data, approximately 8% of children in the United States, aged 4 to 17, have been diagnosed as having ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder).[1] The same reports note that the disorder is about three [...]
Following an opinion on a group list, Mike Fortune- Wood responded with what seems to articulate the recent changes made to Sweden’s Education law, re Home Education.
