Posts Tagged ‘ Education Otherwise ’

Home Education Licensing Scheme Thrown Out

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Good news from the UK via Education Otherwise: Press Release Thursday 8th April 2010 HOME EDUCATION LICENSING SCHEME THROWN OUT IN LAST MINUTE WASH-UP Home educators today feel a huge sense of relief as the Government has been forced to drop the home education parts of the Children Schools and Families Bill in a...
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Blaming Homeschooling for Death of Child

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A tragic death of a child, social services under fire, and homeschooling is being blamed: UK Government’s Education Expert Blames Homeschooling for Death of Child The British government’s lead expert on education is pointing to the tragic death of a Birmingham child, who had been taken out of school by her mother, as an...
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Closer monitioring of homeschoolers in the UK

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Children’s Minister Delyth Morgan has accepted in full the recommendations of Graham Badman’s Review of Elective Home Education in England. Badman calls for more study and closer monitoring of homeschoolers in the UK.
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Report out of UK claims homeschooling on the rise

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The Channel 4 news out of the UK has an online report available that claims homeschooling is on the rise in the UK. I don’t know what guidelines the UK has for tracking homeschoolers, but in the U.S. the best that anyone can do is a guesstimate. Despite that fact, there do seem to...
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    Student loan consolidation is a major problem in our society today.  Several years ago one of our writers wrote a good article about teaching your kids how to manage their money and make a budget.  Please take a look at this great family oriented article about smart money management. http://homeedmag.com/home-education-magazine/stop-student-loan-consolidatio […]

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