B. Articles by Other Writers
on FreeSweden.net
with some external links
1a. General Homeschooling
The Keir Watson Memorandum on the Badman Report - A superb evaluation of state schooling and homeschooling by a British state school teacher at the time when the former Labour Government was trying to regulate homeschooling along similar lines to Sweden - one of the best and most concise summaries on the subject and well worth the read
Dangers of Homeschooling: What the Government Wants You to Believe (spoof)
The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same - Homeschooling and Socialisation Questions (Pat Farenga) (movie)
What is Unschooling? (Prof. Peter Gray) - a study of the 'unschooling' branch of homeschooling in Psychology Today
1b. General Homeschooling - Academic Studies
Cato Institute, Public Policy Sources #51 - Homeschooling: From the Extreme to the Mainstream (Canada & USA) (Patrick Basham) - This paper has established that homeschooling is a thriving educational movemment both in Canada and the USA. It has also empirically demonstrated that the academic and socialization outcomes for the average home schooled child are superior to those experienced by the average public schol student
Academic Statistics on Homeschooling (HSLDA) - A summary, with references to other materials, of the proven effectiveness of homeschooling in the country with the greatest experience of it, the United States
Institutionalization is Bad for Socialization (Rowan Fortune-Wood) - Empirical evidence from British institutions that pre-school and school pose the greatest threat to the emotional and social development of the young, and not families
Homeschooling Outcomes: How Do They Compare? (Dr. Gwen Dewar) - Empirical academic evidence that structured homeschooling scores higher than instituionalised state schooling
Homeschoolers, Not Unschoolers, Get A+ (Dr. Gwen Dewar) - A comparison of structured homeschooling vs. unstructured homeschooling or 'unschooling'
1c. General Education & Society
Education is Self-Organising (movies)
State-Controlled Consciousness (John Taylor Gatto) (movies)
Schools Kill Creativity (Ken Robinson) (movie)
Children Educate Themselves - a Psycho-Analytical Report (Prof. Peter Gray)
The Makers of Modern Schooling (John Taylor Gatto) - a guided tour of the history of modern schooling...it is not at all what you were probably taught (external link)
The Underground History of American Education (John Taylor Gatto) - this ground-breaking book is now available free chapter-by-chapter online and/or you can purchase a copy of the book at the link provided. Many other resources are available at this link too. Prologue: "The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn't real" (external link)
Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address - the founder of Apple/Macintosh Computers shares anecdotes about life and education, and the importance of being free to choose the way one learns (movie)
2. European Union - Germany and Sweden Ignore Its Laws
German Homeschoolers' Political Asylum in America Exposes the EU Gulag (Gerald Warner)
3a. Sweden (EU) - Homeschooling (also see Germany below)
Brottslig skola (Neo) (Swedish)
Förbjud ger inget gott samhälle - Prohibition Does Not Make for a Good Society (Mattias Svensson) (Swedish & English)
Sweden Bans Home-schooling, Religious Instruction (Alex Newman)
Björklund's Bill: The New Law is a Step Backwards - Nya skollagen ett steg tillbaka (J.Whiteford) (English & Swedish)
Continued Battle for Homeschooling - Fortsatt strid om hemundervisning (Johanna Palmström) (English & Swedish)
A Fundamental Difference: Home Education in Sweden and Finland (Mischa Hammarnejd)
Sweden's Big Government 'Utopia' Unmasked (Alex Newman)
Young Swedes Want to Know the Truth (Swedish & English)
Jan Björklunds skola borde inte vara facit - Jan Björklund's School Shouldn't Be So Test-Oriented (Eva Cooper) (Swedish & English)
Letter to the Swedish Government from the German Homeschooling Association (Jörg Großelümern)
Swedish Hate Crime (Touchstone)
De flyr den nya skollagen - They are Fleeing the New School Law (Samuel Teglund) (Swedish)
Barn lär sig om livet i skolan - Children Learn About Life at School (CCMW et al) (Swedish & English)
Leaving Home: New Law Forces Home-Schoolers to Fight or Flee (Alex Newman)
The Legal Kidnapping of a Child - 4 August 2011 (Toni Mascaró)
Hemundervisning måste vara tillåten - Homeschooling Must Be Permitted (Alfred Askeljung, Benjamin Juhlin & Caspian Rehbinder) (Swedish & English)
The Dark Side of Government Schooling in Sweden (Pat Farenga)
"Vi är de enda i Sverige" - "We are the Only Ones in Sweden" (Vávra Suk) (Swedish)
De har den enda hemskolan i Sverige - The Only Homeschoolers in Sweden (Vávra Suk) (Swedish)
Swedish Politician to Social Services Minister: Take Homeschooled Kids! (HSLDA)
Hemmet bättre än skolan - Home is Better Than School (Jonschimms, Hall & Fjellström)
Var fjärde hemundervisare flyr Sverige för utlandet - A Quarter of all Homeschoolers Fleeing Abroad From Sweden (Samuel Teglund)
Homeschool Leader Flees Swedish Persecution (Alex Newman)
Hemundervisning: den bästa gåva du kan ge ditt barn - Home Education: The Best Gift You Can Give Your Child (Berit USA)
3b. Sweden (EU) - State Education & Social
Sweden: Parental Inquisition (P.Kamakawiwoole)
Deliberate Witchhunt Against Christianity in Schools - Medveten klappjakt på kristendomen i skolan (R.Agnarsson) (in English & Swedish)
Tvåspråkiga barn halkar efter - Bilingual Children Fall Behind
Hemspråk ger elever bättre betyg - Home Language Gives Students a Better Grade (Annika Hamruden) - the bias in the state school system against those whose mother tongue is not Swedish (in English & Swedish)
External Links
Swedish Supreme Court's Criticism of the New Education Act (in Swedish)
4. United Kingdom (EU) - An Excellent Rôle Model
The Keir Watson Memorandum on the Badman Report - a superb evaluation of state schooling and homeschooling by a British state school teacher
German Homeschoolers' Political Asylum in America Exposes the EU Gulag (Gerald Warner)
Down Wiv School: Children are Best Educated at Home (The Times Newspaper & Irdial)
Institutionalization is Bad for Socialization (Rowan Fortune-Wood)
External Links 1 - Articles
Teacher Abuse of Pupils (Mike Fortune-Wood)
A Kind of Treason...? (Roland Meighan)
External Links 2 - Websites
PowerWood UK - Balance Skills and Better the World - specialist social and emotional care for children who are intelligent, intense, sensitive and teenagers with uneven development and over-excitabilities; special workshops for parents too
5. Germany (EU) - the Country Sweden Wrongly Emulates
"Schulzwang ist staatlich missbrauchte Schulpflicht -
Compulsory school attendance is compulsory government abuse"
Battle Against Fascist Conformity (Michael Smith) - the way Sweden is headed is the way Germany has been since the Hitlerite era of education
German Homeschoolers' Political Asylum in America Exposes the EU Gulag (Gerald Warner)
German Homeschooling Family Under Assault (CBN, Irdial et al.)
The German Model Taken to Its Logical Conclusion (Irdial)
Hitler’s Ghost Haunts German Parents (Alexandra Colen)
‘Anachronistic’ Germans told to allow Home Schooling (Irdial)
Strange Goings-On: Sweden, Germany, EU and Home Ed (CCMW)
United Nations Report on Education Abuse in Germany
Letter to the Swedish Government from the German Homeschooling Association (Jörg Großelümern)
Nazi-Style Education Still the Norm in Germany (Brian Farmer)
Persecution of German Home Schoolers (Hilary White)
Plea from a Young State-Kidnapped German Girl (Irdial)
Die Endlösung - The Final Solution to the Homeschooling Problem (Bob Unruh)
6. Finland (EU) - a Country Sweden Ought to Emulate
Four Reasons Finland’s Schools are Better Than Ours (Alan Bibby) - a comparison with US state schools
A Fundamental Difference: Home Education in Sweden and Finland (Mischa Hammarnejd) - the experience of a homeschooling refugee from Sweden in exile in Finland
7. United States - the World Leader in Home Education
Back to Basics Reform - or OBE Skinnerian International Curriculum? (Charlotte T. Iserbyt) - written in 1985 by an official in the U.S. Department of Education, the predictions made in this book have literally been fulfilled in this 21st century (PDF Book)
The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America - A Chronological Paper Trail (Charlotte T. Iserbyt) - written in 1999 by a former official in the U.S. Department of Education in the Reagan Administration, this book will change forever the way you look at your child's education and give you a clear understanding as to why American education has taken the route it has and how this Marxist blueprint is being implementted in every educational system internationally including Sweden; contains important references to homeschooling - for a complete review, radio interviews and articles on this important book, please see the author's website (PDF Book)
The Death of Free Will (Charlotte T. Iserbyt) - written in 2010 by a former official in the U.S. Department of Education, this study charts the methodology used by modern Marxist educationalists to extingish free will and conscience (PDF file)
The Secret History of Western Education: The Scientific Destruction of Minds (Charlotte T. Iserbyt) - everything you didn't know about the covert Marxification of international education (Movie)
Here I Stand (Erica Goldson) - Valedictorian Speaks Out Against Schooling, Coxsackie-Athens Valedictorian Speech 2010 (Video and Text)
External Links
Moore Homeschooling (website) - The balance of Academics and Work/Service
The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America (Charlotte T. Iserbyt)
American Deception.com - Uncovering the Deceptively Hidden Truth (Education Section)
Education Evolution (website) - The School Sucks Project
Wendy Priesnitz (website) - Rethinking how we live in our families and our communities, and on our planet
John Holt (website) - Founder of Unschooling
John Taylor Gatto - The Odysseys Group (website) - Challenging the Myths of Modern Schooling
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