My social science course with the Open University (OU) started in May. The first ‘package’ arrived late in April and included workbooks, cd’s, dvd’s, study pamphlets and the main course books. To be honest it all looked a little intimidating and I wondered where to start, until I found the most important document [...]

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I haven’t done a post for review me for ages, perhaps a year or more - however, this offer really caught my imagination.
LVUTV
It’s basically a website that has collated the information of colleges across America into an easy digestible format for prospective students. Students can study the wealth of information and make comparisons before [...]

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I’ve just been reading a news article on Raising Kids - Do Kids Start School too Early?
Well my view on that is yes, but what really caught my eye were the comments by Steve Sinnot of The National Union of Teachers and the Goverment respectively.

Uniquely, England is a country where testing is used to police [...]

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As you know I have bought a new house exactly 9.15 miles from where I live now, which means a change of catchment area for both primary and secondary schools. I’ve done some research on the education in the area;

Firstly, I checked which primary school Erin would attend.
Then I checked the inspectors report for [...]

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I’ve hit on a particularly interesting section in ‘You Want To Do What?: Instant answers to your parenting dilemmas‘ which covers morals.
The question was posed “When do children begin to know what is right and wrong?”. The section goes on to explain that there are three levels of development, preconventional, conventional and postconvential. [...]

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It’s been a while since I’ve done an update on my progress. On Tuesday, I sat the first assessment for the core maths 3 course I’m doing in preparation for the access course next year. It went fine, I got one wrong but hey a pass is a pass.
Whilst I was [...]

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Abel Cheng of Parent Wonder tipped me off to this article which covers the stories of four different sets of people that have started their own schools. Two of the families because of poor state education, one a specialist autistic shool, and the other specialising in teaching those with dyslexia.
The story that caught my [...]

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The Problem
There’s a major problem in Britain today. Anti-social behaviour. And the teenagers are being blamed for a fair chunk of it.
Although I can’t find an excuse for the ASBO culture, after all I don’t think there were any more facilities when I was thirteen, I do wonder where our teenagers are supposed [...]

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So I finally started the core maths course.
Section 1 was rounding to two, three, four and five decimal places and significant figures - straight forward enough.
Section 2 was a little more challenging, scientific notation in multiplication, I’ll tackle the division next time. This was mostly a case of refreshing my memory, I [...]

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I found out about this via ReviewMe, and I just had to pass the word on…
Free SAT Exam School
First, a quick blurb from the site;
According to the College Board 2006 Profile Report analysis of SAT scores, students from wealthier families typically receive higher marks. ProProfs hopes to even out the playing field for the [...]

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