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Appreciation: Overschooled but Undereducated: Society’s Failure to Understand Adolescence, by John Abbott & Heather MacTaggart, by Sir Gustav Nossal

September 4, 2008

“This remarkable work, so individualistic and peppered with fascinating reminiscences and asides, deserves the widest possible readership. It is at the same time profoundly scholarly More

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So What? A Young Person’s take on being Overschooled but Undereducated, by Leigh MacTaggart Richter

August 8, 2008

18 year old Leigh MacTaggart Richter assesses her own education in light of John Abbott’s recent book Overschooled but Undereducated . This is a fascinated More

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A School that Fits: Public Meeting 9th July, 2010
27 Jul 2010
Q and A from a public meeting held on 9th July, 2010, concerning St. Mark’s School in Larkhall.

Public Meeting, Larkhall, Bath
6 May 2010
A public meeting will be held to set out our alternative proposal to the potential closure of St. Mark’s Secondary School at the New Oriel Hall on Saturday the 22nd May.

A Trio of Manchester Book Launches
10 Mar 2010
The first and the third of these Book Launches were quite informal and involved a relatively small number of people. The second, that at Manchester Metropolitan University, was the first time in which more books were sold than the actual number of people attending! That is a wonderful record to hold.

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Appreciation: Overschooled but Undereducated: Society’s Failure to Understand Adolescence, by John Abbott & Heather MacTaggart, by Sir Gustav Nossal

So What? A Young Person’s take on being Overschooled but Undereducated, by Leigh MacTaggart Richter

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A School that Fits: Public Meeting 9th July, 2010

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