Psychometrics for all trainees
In global first for England, personality tests will be used to weed out ‘unsuitable’ teaching applicants Kerra Maddern — TES Connect England is to become…
Education
Over Two Million Children Are Now Homeschooled
Ian Slatter HSLDA Purcellville, VA—In a new study released today the National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI) estimates there were over 2 million children being…
Do Home Schoolers Deserve a Tax Break?
NY Times Discussion The new Republicans in Congress have vowed to challenge Washington’s role in American public education, and said they will seek to turn…
Puerto Rico Student Strike Intensifies, Public Education and Civil Rights at Stake
image source Maritza Stanchich Huffington Post Coincident with massive, at times explosive, student protests in Rome and London, University of Puerto Rico has again become…
Younger People — Pay Attention to This
Simon Black Sovereign Man If you’re reading this and under 30, let me be absolutely clear about one indubitable point: your government is going to…
The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America (VIDEO)
YouTube — NealF RELATED ARTICLES: A Journey to Unschooling 4 Reasons to Change The Way We View Education FREE PDF BOOK: The Deliberate Dumbing…
AMERICA: Y UR PEEPS B SO DUM?
Ignorance and courage in the age of Lady Gaga Joe Bageant If you hang out much with thinking people, conversation eventually turns to the serious…
The Death of Free Will
Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt Infowars THE LAST NAIL OF SO-CALLED SCHOOL REFORM is being struck in the coffin of traditional American education which made our nation…
No teachers, no homework: Students set own agenda at private school in Davie
photo: Amy Beth Bennett/Sun Sentinel Georgia East Sun Sentinel DAVIE — It’s about 11 a.m. in the small, sun-drenched building, and 4-year-old Leila Ekendiz has…
45 Wise Life Lessons
By Regina Brett To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most requested column I’ve ever written. My odometer rolled…
Why Did 17 Million Students Go to College?
Richard Vedder Chronicle Two sets of information were presented to me in the last 24 hours that have dramatically reinforced my feeling that diminishing returns…
Unemployed BC Law student asks for money back
Jessica Heslam Boston Herald A third-year Boston College Law School student facing dismal job prospects and a mountain of student loan debt has offered the…
Changing Education Paradigms
Youtube – the RSAOrg RELATED ARTICLES: 4 Reasons to Change the Way We View Education A Journey to Unschooling
A Journey to Unschooling
Mary Hickcox Activist Post Unschooling is a term that John Holt coined in the 70s, after years of extensive research regarding how children learn and…