Home Education Heretic

A treat for readers who would like to read another review of a book of mine, this time  about the East End in the 1960s; http://eastlondon...

I thought that readers might like to read a review of one of my recent books about education and schooling: http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk...

I was interested to see yesterday  one of my most vociferous critics here,  a keen autonomous educator,  mention in passing that he or sh...

I thought that readers might be interested to hear what Ian Dowty has to say on the subject of flexi-schooling. As readers probably know, he...

We looked yesterday at the case of a child  who was taught to read and then advertised as having just ‘picked up’ reading spontaneously. Th...

One of the most commonly held beliefs among  certain  British home educators  is that it is unnecessary to teach children to read; that t...

I said yesterday that research on the internet posed special problems for some home educated children. Of course, it is not only home edu...