Questioning Common Assumptions
Former teacher, now home educating her own children, speaks out against the misinformation and distrust meted out to home educators What’s been said? On 30 November Schoolsweek featured an Opinion piece by …
Category: Great Britain
Researchers Recognise the Benefits of Home Education
How parents might use academic research to challenge the prejudicial way in which home education is viewed What’s been said? Here we comment on two brief and very readable comment pieces from …
Real Home Educators Heard on the BBC!
Investigative journalism conveys an unusually positive view of home education, as well as addressing several familiar objections What’s been said? BBC Radio 4’s “Bringing Up Britain” programmes will be familiar to many. …
Home Educated Candidates Ignored but Not Quite Forgotten
In the uproar over national exam results, there is a little encouragement for excluded HE candidates What’s been said? In recent weeks attention has been focussed on examination results, as governments across …
Some Positives and Negatives of Pandemic Schooling
Will home education now be viewed through the filter of negative ‘home-schooling’ experiences during lockdown? What’s been said? On 30 June 2020, shortly after the government abandoned plans to fully reopen primary …
“I learned a lot from being home schooled”
Reflections on an unusual educational journey and its relevance to parents who find themselves pandemic-schooling What’s been said? Now a second year journalism student, Tristan Ledger’s article published in the Tes on …