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Updated September 8, 2008 International News
International Freedom in Education Day Teaching Kids about the Environment, Government Style Ludwig von Mises Institute Posted June 10, 2008 Excerpt: In Australia, governments have adopted environmental education programs that teach children that human intrusion into nature is to be condemned and that man's life must be subordinated to the preservation of nature, by government force if necessary.... Greena [a character from the on-line game "Planet Slayer," recommended by the Australian government for school children] invites children to use the website's Greenhouse Calculator to "find out what age you should die at so you don't use more than your fair share of Earth's resources." Evening Standard thisislondon.co.uk Posted March 23, 2008 Excerpt: Private schools should be abolished, the new leader of Britain's biggest teachers' union said yesterday. Pupils' creativity to be assessed BBC News Posted February 15, 2008 Excerpt: The government says it is monitoring work by the exams watchdog on how best to measure children's creative abilities in schools.
By Graeme Paton Telegraph Posted February 16, 2008
Excerpt: Under the Government's Early Years Foundation Stage Framework, which will apply to about 25,000 nurseries plus registered childminders, children will be expected to meet up to 500 targets between birth and primary school.
They will be continually assessed on writing, problem solving and numeracy. Parents are doing it for themselves By Cathryn Atkinson Globe and Mail Posted October 22, 2007
North Vancouver, BC, CANADA: When you can't find the right school for your kids, start one yourself.
PC warriors serve up a slanted education By Mark Lopez The Australian Posted October 30, 2007
Excerpt: IN her address to her union's conference in 2005 the Australian Education Union president Pat Byrne openly acknowledged the ideological bias that dominates the school system. As she put it: "We have succeeded in influencing curriculum development in schools, education departments and universities. The conservatives have a lot of work to do to undo the progressive curriculum."
Mennonites threaten to abandon Quebec By Andy Riga, CanWest News Service
Excerpt: The province insists the group's children must go to a sanctioned school. Leaders say they'll leave the province rather than conform.
As goes Europe, so goes the world? Here are some examples that will make you double up on your vigilance at home. Is your baby playing with its toes yet? If not the government wants to know why. The Guardian Unlimited Posted March 20, 2007 This is the sort of program that American child "advocates" drool over. By Joanna Bogle National Catholic Register April 8-14, 2007 Issue Government sees no limits to its justifiable reach. The BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS Campaign launched on behalf of German teen Home-taught American students flooding embassy with concerns By Bob Unruh Posted: February 7, 2007 © 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Excerpt: Homeschool students and their families across America are being urged to flood the German embassy with e-mail, telephone calls and letters in support of a German teen who was taken by police to a psychiatric ward because she was being homeschooled.
The Brussels Journal From the desk of Alexandra Colen on Tue, 2006-06-20 21:21
Excerpt: In today’s Belgian newspaper Gazet van Antwerpen Bob Van de Voorde, the spokesman of Frank Vandenbroucke, the minister of Education, says:
The parents Mr Van de Voorde is referring to in the paper are my husband (TBJ editor Paul Belien) and myself. The “inquiry” is a threat to prosecute us...
Evangelical schools ordered to teach Darwin Quebec crackdown David Rogers; with files from Joanne Laucius, National Post; CanWest News Service National Post Electronic Edition
Excerpt: The Quebec Ministry of Education has told unlicensed Christian evangelical schools that they must teach Darwin's theory of evolution and sex education or close their doors after a school board in the Outaouais region complained the provincial curriculum was not being followed.
BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com Posted September 29, 2006 Excerpt: A new ruling from the European Human Rights Court has affirmed the German nation's Nazi-era ban on homeschooling, concluding that society has a significant interest in preventing the development of dissent through "separate philosophical convictions."
The Strasburg-based court addressed the issue on appeal from a Christian family whose members alleged their human rights to educate their own children according to their own religious beliefs are being violated by the ban.
The specific case addressed in the opinion involved Fritz and Marianna Konrad, who filed the complaint in 2003 and argued that Germany's compulsory school attendance endangered their children's religious upbringing and promotes teaching inconsistent with the family's Christian faith...
Great Britain: Cutting Classes by Sean Gabb TCS Daily 28 Jun 2006
Excerpt: In part, the problem is one of management. Our state education is under centralized, authoritarian control. There is the National Curriculum. There is endless testing to see that arbitrary and often incomprehensible targets are reached.... In main, however, the problem of the state sector is not its management, but its existence. The primary use of state education has never, more than incidentally, been enlightenment. It has always been the preaching of whatever values are presently held by the ruling class.... All that has changed since then is the nature of the ruling class and of its values.... They derive wealth and power and status from an enlarged and active state.... The real answer is to get the state entirely out of education.
India: A 'Hole in the Wall' Helps Educate India by Pat Orvis The Christian Science Monitor 01 Jun 2006
Excerpt: An example of free market education in India: Computer kiosks allow children to educate themselves. "What is being learned with Hole-in-the-Wall is how much kids can just figure out without adult assistance...."
Africa: Give Africa a Private Schooling by James Tooley TimesOnLine 26 Jun 2005
Africa & India: Welcome to easyLearn, Class 1 by James Tooley TimesOnLine 17 April 2006
Excerpt: My recent research has shown that between 65 and 75 per cent of children in the poorest slums in Africa and India are now in private schools. These schools charge low fees, perhaps a couple of pounds per month. They are run by proprietors who are not heartless businessmen, but who provide free places to orphans and those with widowed mothers. When they tested large random samples of children, my teams found that these schools outperform the government alternative. And they do it with teachers paid a fraction of the unionised rates.”
Africa & Asia: A Lesson From the Third World by James Tooley The Spectator 18 Jan 2003
Excerpt: In Africa and Asia the poor know that government schools won’t serve their needs. But they do not sit idly by, dispossessed and disfranchised — adjectives used by the liberal elite to describe the poor — acquiescent in their government’s failure. Instead they vote with their feet, desert the state schools and move their children to private schools set up by educational entrepreneurs to cater for their needs.
China: China Has More Than 70,000 Private Schools People’s Daily Source: Xinhua
Comment: As one might expect, they are not as free as they would be elsewhere, but any trend toward independence in China is encouraging. Parents, even in this oppressed country, are taking a second look at the state’s supposed right to control their children.
Guatemala: A Private School for Orphans Last Updated 07 Jul 2006
Orphan Islands works closely with World Link Partners, a nonprofit charity located in Antigua, Guatemala. World Link Partners have surrounded themselves with a core of retired highly skilled and educated caring people of various religious beliefs who live in Guatemala and who donate their time, talents, and resources to doing good for the impoverished and disadvantaged people of that nation.
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