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ISSUE 1 February 2006

A Broad and Balanced Curriculum?
Stella Howden
The Elective Home Education Service in Leeds
Brian Hogg
Respect or Anything Goes?
Jan Fortune-Wood
Children in Crisis
Kyoko Aizawa
Which Way for Learning? Part 1
Roland Meighan
Home Education in the West Midlands
by Joy Beasley
Home Education and the Muslim Community
Fzeelah El-Sawah
Safe in their Hands?
Mike Fortune-Wood
Deregistration - A right in law?
Louisa Haywood-Samuel
How Many Children are Home Educated?
Mike Fortune-Wood
Our Life without Schooling
Elisabeth Kuhnle

Issue 2 May 2006

Educational Philosophies and their Legal Significance
Mike Fortune-Wood
He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tune
Deborah W.
A Comparison between the Law on Homeschooling in Belgium and Holland
Joke Sperling
Home Educating a Large Family
Henrietta Turnbull
"Independent" Research into Home Education
Mike Fortune-Wood
Virtual State Schools and Home Education
Mike Fortune-Wood
Open as to Whom?
Jan Fortune-Wood
Which Way for Learning? Part 2
Roland Meighan
Where are they now?
Rowan Fortune-Wood
Orwell: Bad is Good and Good is Bad
Mike Fortune-Wood

Issue 3 August 2006

School Refusal
Yvonne Scott-Frasor
HES FES Review
Mike Fortune-Wood
Home educating…the second generation!
Gina Bass
What did you learn today, Mum?
Jan Fortune-Wood
Home Educating as a Single Parent
Christine Waterman
Running a Learning Centre
Jo Davis
LEAs & What they really think!
Mike Fortune-Wood
Resource Review - one man's trash
Gina Bass
Home Education Hostility
Clare Murton
Every Child is Special - but some are more special than others
Abbie Green

Issue 4 November 2006

Hot housing is good for kids – or is it?
 
Guidance and Assurances – how far can we trust them?
Neil Taylor
Age Discrimination and Education
When ‘support’ means ‘intervention’
Jan Fortune-Wood
 
An End to Coursework
 
 
Victoria Climbié Myth Trotted Out Again
 
Bedford Home Educators
 
Mike Fortune-Wood
YouTube and Home Education
Rowan Fortune-Wood
The Myth of Experts
Jan Fortune-Wood
Leeds LEA & the DfES Consultation on Guidance to LEAs
 
New Legislation on the Way?
The State as Parent
 
Home Education in the Wilderness
Home Education Debate on the BBC World Service
 
European Court Ruling – A Cause for Concern?
Home Education in China
 
Education News
A Suitable Education
 
Jamming at the BBC
Schools are regulated – why shouldn’t home education be the same?
Martin Wise
Audio Books on the Web
 
Developments in Learning
 

Issue 5 February 2007

 
 
AHED – First New National Home Education Group in 10 Years
Resisting the Herd
Jan Fortune-Wood
 
Light Touch Changes
Home Education in the Republic of Ireland
 
Kim Pierce
 
 
Scottish Executive announces a sharp rise in home education
½ of school leavers fail government core standards
 
Victory in Europe!
The Children’s Database – again
 
Standardised Testing and Personalised Education –
Government Style
 
Learn to read or you’ll end up in Iraq
I’m not lazy – it’s my biorhythms
 
A very irregular verb
How useful are ‘A’ levels?
 
Flexi-schooling
Rumania joins the fold
 
Never Too Late
 
Jan Fortune-Wood
Strange Suspensions
 
Injustice through Legal Manipulation
Duncan J. Sibley
New Research into Home Education
 
Creativity and Dyslexia
GCSEs for Home Educated Children in Dudley LA
Joy Beasley
 
The Two Year Degree
1 in 20 school-leavers have no qualifications
Ritalin – the Cost
Policy Change – USA Style
Joanne Casiello
 
1/3 of graduates regret choice of degree
Secondary Schools make children feel like cogs
 
SEN funding to be roughly divided between schools
Raising of education leaving age
 
Autism – a genetic link
More new DfES consultations
School or Work?

Issue 6 May 2007

Schoolhouse Slams Council Ignorance of the Law on Home Education
 
Changing Head Teachers and School improvement
The Education system is in “The Last Chance Saloon”
 
Autonomous Education in Germany
Matthias Kern
Institutionalization is bad for socialization
Rowan Fortune-Wood
 
Parents too busy to listen
Can children’s rights be a bad thing?
Mike Fortune-Wood
 
Happy Birthday UK-home-ed list
A guide to Child Benefit for over 16 year olds
Doreen Philp (Schoolhouse)
 
Government plan to criminalise 16-18 year olds for absenteeism
Health and Safety warning – plaster of Paris
 
Parents encouraged to talk to children
Can’t Go, Won’t Go: Coping with School Refusal
Annie H
 
New UN report on German Education
Higher Education Report
 
A Film Case Study of Home-based Education
 
Roland Meighan
Home Education Research – Can You Help?
 
10 hour a day schools
Sex education Mike Fortune-Wood
 
Home Education and the Cost of Deregistration
 
Fiona Nicholson
After school club workers & some Teachers exempt from police checks
 
PSP’s in educational trials
No Place for Child Abuse at Home or School, says AHEd
 
Pre-school Pressure
Julia Roebuck
Widening Home Education Opportunities at the Open University
AHEd makes a formal complaint to the Cabinet Office
Desperate Mother Home Educates
Truancy rates up – Truancy patrols down?
Early Years Education and Teaching to the Test
Drug Abuse in schools
Keeping our heads down – a credible policy?
Neil Taylor
US Presidential candidate to Home Educate
The Rain Man syndrome
Schools are so good that parents employ private tutors

Issue 7 August 2007

Fear and Loathing in Westminster
 
School holidays drive women to drink
Sex Offenders Target My Space
 
The Guidelines – an Early Local Authority Response
 
Barbara Starke
Psychometric Testing
 
Are you Patriotic Enough?
When you are who they say you are
 
HES FES 2007
Raising the School Leaving Age
 
Debt & Students Studying from Home
Backdoor Admissions Policies & Massive Rise in Postgraduate Degrees
 
Cautions for Sex Offenders & The Army Needs You!
Educational Resources
 
758,000 Empty School Places
Home Education Research – can you help?
 
Cured of Liberty
Rowan Fortune Wood
Junior School Results
 
Some International Ages for Compulsory Education
I Live Therefore I Learn: Living An Unschooling Life
Pam Sorooshian
 
Job Juggling and the Home Educating Family
Sally Lever
The Bologna Project
 
Don’t Study Maths – pupils told!
Personalised Learning: the New Curriculum
Pupil Power on the Rise?
Home Education in Ireland
Nick Gudge
 
Autism Helped by Intensive Tutoring
Homeschooling In Bulgaria
Peter Porumbachanov
 
Home Educations: The Nordic Experience
 
Dr. Christian W. Beck 51
International Freedom in Education Day
 
Home-based Education and the Problem
of the Competence of Inspectors
Roland Meighan 54
 
A Precocious Prime Minister 55
Teaching to the Test 56
 
Academy Success Down to Exclusions? 57
Corruption in Schools 58
 
A Levels and Diplomas 59

Issue 8 November 2007

Channel 4 and the Numbers Game
 
Support for Home-Educating Families from Milton Keynes Local Authority
 
by Mary Mullett
 
Unemployed teachers may loose professional status
Urgent Appeal for Help – German Home Educators fined
 
Internet Safety
Computer Games
 
Home Education Research Needs You
Out of Control: An Extract from Winning Parent, Winning Child
Jan Fortune-Wood
 
Pushy Parents
Diary Item
 
School leavers not fit for purpose say industry managers
Lone parents forced to sign on
 
Single Sex Classes
21 st Century Curriculum
 
Welsh Guidance
University Scholarships
 
Free Laptops in Wales a Move Closer
Bella’s Story
 
Social workers use “Emotional Abuse”
Proposed changes to the definition of an Independent school and AHED’s response
 
Virtual Short Change
Secret Schools in Germany
 
School Class
 
Gordon Brown on Personalised Education
 
DCFS Guidance Delayed
Teaching to the Test
 
Truancy Sweeps – Yet More Guidance
Fraser Institute Supports UK Findings
Degree Earnings
Playing Out
Cervical Cancer Jab
A Levels on the Way Out?
 
How Others See Us – an Animation
 
Roland Meighan 57
Doctors Reminded Of Children's Right to Privacy
 
Book Offers
Support Listings

Issue 9 February 2008

Channel 4 and the Numbers Game
 
Support for Home-Educating Families from Milton Keynes Local Authority
 
Unemployed teachers may loose professional status
 
Urgent Appeal for Help – German Home Educators fined
 
Internet Safety
 
Computer Games
 
Out of Control: An Extract from Winning Parent, Winning Child by Jan Fortune-Wood
 
Pushy Parents
 
School leavers not fit for purpose say industry managers
 
Lone parents forced to sign on
 
Single Sex Classes
 
21 st Century Curriculum
 
Welsh Guidance
 
University Scholarships
 
Free Laptops in Wales a Move Closer
 
Bella’s Story
Social workers use “Emotional Abuse”
 
Proposed changes to the definition of an Independent school and
AHED’s response
Virtual Short Change
 
Secret Schools in Germany
 
School Class
 
Gordon Brown on Personalised Education
 
DCFS Guidance Delayed
 
Teaching to the Test
 
Truancy Sweeps – Yet More Guidance
 
 
Fraser Institute Supports UK Findings
 
Degree Earnings
 
Playing Out
 
Cervical Cancer Jab
 
A Levels on the Way Out?
 
How Others See Us – an Animation by Roland Meighan7
 
Doctors Reminded Of Children's Right to Privacy
 

Issue 10 May 2008

Why home schooling should NOT be regulated.

A British home educator’s reply to a hostile global agenda Neil Taylor

A Way into Modern Poetry Jan Fortune-Wood

Real education is being able to pass exams

Poetry and Creative Writing at HES FES Jan Fortune-Wood

Nice of them to ask! Barbara Stark

UK children the most unhappy in the western world!

Sex education in Britain and America.

The Optimistic Parent: Extracts from Winning Parent,Winning Child Jan Fortune-Wood

Memory impairment effects up to 10% of children.

Free Entry to CADW and cheap entry to the National Trust.

The Joy of Reading Late Jan Fortune-Wood

Abuse, Teachers and Home Visits.

Thousands may avoid the rise in school leaving age

More families abandon state education.

Children are Unbeatable Children are unbeatable Aiance

Jo’s Story - An extract from a case study for Can’t Go Won’t go Mike Fortune-Wood

The State as Parent

Exam fees under the spotlight

Creativity to be measured

Belgium home educator’s rights under threat

Teaching with Films

An Orwellian education

Archworks continuing campaign against ContactPoint.

DCFS Consultation Process – Interim report

Schools Breach Admissions Code

Who has access to children in schools?

Much ado about nothing – A Californian court ruling

Flexi Schooling

Single parents and the Jobseekers allowance

A Kind of Treason … ? Roland Meighan


Issue 11 August 2008 (new format)

University Student Satisfaction Survey

Proposed Age Banding of Children’s Books

Independent Schools Attack New Under-5s Curriculum

Disabilities Discrimination Act – Landmark Case

HES FES 2008

New Diplomas in Trouble Again

Home Education: a successful educational experiment? Simone de Hoogh

Getting Creative with the Arvon Foundation Jan Fortune-Wood

Breastfeeding linked to Improved Cognitive Development

Single Parents’ Forced Employment Campaign

Fraser Institute Report on Home Education Outcomes

OFSTED Report - “Some schools narrow curriculum by ‘Teaching to the test’”

Home Education in the Press

Government Minimises Concerns over Bullying

Good News as Ireland MEP Raises Issues on Germany

Parents Urged to Talk about Sex

Is US Home Education Rooted in Racism?

An End to Childhood?

Learning Without Limits – a major home education conference

Tests, Tests, Tests


 


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