Staffordshire Action for the Protection of Home Education:
Website: http://www.theartofsurvival.co.uk/homeeducation/
Mailing list: http://theartofsurvival.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/homeeducationlist_theartofsurvival.co.uk
Support, advice, resources and action for home educating families in Staffordshire.
Home Ed Map:
find home ed groups in the UK or add your own for others to find you at the home ed map site.
Forums for discussion of matters related to the practice of elective home education in the UK.
Home Ed Resources
find useful resources, downloadable links, lesson plans and more at the HEResources group.
No membership of the group is required simply visit when needed and bookmark as a favourite.
Home education in Scotland:
Schoolhouse Home Education Association:
For accurate legal information on HE in Scotland.
Home education website for people in Northern Ireland:
New Statesman article - when parents are a child's best teachers
http://www.newstatesman.com/200501100017
Why Social Workers oppose the child database:
Every Parent Matters?
John Taylor Gatto Challenging the myths of modern schooling
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/
The Memory Hole article - The Educational System Was Designed to Keep Us Uneducated and Docile
http://www.thememoryhole.org/edu/school-mission.htm
Autodidacticism - link at bottom to *The Passion To Learn: An Inquiry into Autodidactism by Joan Solomon* Possibly useful list of famous autodidacts
http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Autodidacticism#Quotes_related_to_autodidacticism
Are schools killing creativity? - You tube video of lecture by Ken Robinson
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-4964296663335083307&q=educational+videos
The seduction of Home schooling families - interesting American article about the dangers of accepting funding
http://www.homeschooloasis.com/art_the_seduction_of_hsing_fams_cardiff.htm