No school like home  Home education, long dismissed as a hippy
option, can be 'astonishingly efficient', says a new study.
Jessica Shepherd meets the children who don't go to school   •
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Brookes family take to the road in search of inspiration
Freewheeling... the Brookes family take to the road in search of
inspiration. Photograph: Sam Frost  Ian Fisher, like three-
quarters of a millon other 16-year-olds, is waiting to get his
GCSE results in two days' time. But, education-wise, that is
where the similarity between him and the vast majority of his
peers ends, because Ian has never set foot in a school.    1.
How Children Learn at Home   2. by Alan Thomas and Harriet
Pattison   3. Find this on the Guardian bookshop  In a lifetime
of home education, the only formal lessons he has experienced
were evening classes at his local college in Reading to help him
prepare for the English and physics GCSEs he sat this summer. He
studied for a maths GCSE last year a