Documentation
History Curriculum Association 1990
GCSE History: An Alternative Approach
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Archived Newsletters and other news
CRE Newsletter Winter/Spring 2024/25 | Issue 115
Contents
- Editorial | Education Secretary signs the terms of surrender
- How to solve problem the problem of Ofsted reports
- 'I was a teenage werewolf' - Horror movie becomes classroom fact
- Good Childhood Report 2024: Places UK at the top of the league - for unhappiness
- 'Poor & Clean': A play about Black-on-Black Killings
- Smart phones and social media
- Back to basics in Sweden
- The fall in graduate salaries shows the argument for mass entry to higher education has failed
- Artificial Intelligence in the classroom - How the CRE responds to the international debate
- No Comment
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CRE Newsletter Summer/Autumn 2024 | Issue 114
Contents
- Editorial | Restoring Respect for Teachers and Schooling
- CRE Education Manifesto for the next General Election
- Educational propaganda and cultural self-hatred: A personal view by Dr. Piers Legh
- OECD PISA Assessments - The Fuller Picture
- Myths of Empire: Essential reading for teachers
- Around 90% of Schools are 'Good' or 'Outstanding' and Still iImproving - True or False?
- New guidance on teaching Relationship, Sex and Health Education
- Observations on the contrast between teaching in South Korea and England
- No Comment
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CRE Newsletter Winter/Spring 2023/24 | Issue 113
Contents
- Editorial | The King's Speech
- PISA Test Results
- Desecrating War Memorials: A Case of Decolonising History?
- Re-education For Pupils Who Are Deemed Insufficiently Woke
- Uniform Thinking
- Artificial Intelligence
- Teacher Shortages?
- Ofsted Nonsense
- Crumbling Concrete In Our Schools
- Nick Gibb
- No Comment
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CRE Newsletter Summer/Autumn 2023 | Issue 112
Contents
- Editorial
- The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study [PIRLS]
- Did Northern Ireland Outperform England on the PIRLS tests?
- Ofsted
- The Mysterious Case of Professor Biggar & the Harry Potter Publisher
- Scotland’s National Discussion on Education
- Teacher Strikes
- Teacher Recruitment from Overseas
- A Time of Despair? Three Cases to Ponder
- Scotland’s National Discussion on Education
- Sex Education: Welsh Government, Not Parents, Knows What is Best for Children
- No Comment
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CRE Newsletter Winter/Spring 2022/23 | Issue 111
Contents
- Editorial
- The Education Secretary Carousel
- Catching Up with the Best Education Systems Around the World
- Decolonising the Curriculum in Higher Education
- A Triumph for History Teachers
- CND - The Campaign for Non-Deterrence in Schools
- The Secline of Education in Wales
- Observance Months
- No Comment
CRE Newsletter Summer/Autumn 2022 | Issue 110
Contents
- Editorial
- The 2022 Schools Bill - The Blob Strikes Back!
- Trigger Warnings
- The End of Marking?
- Promoting the Nationalist Agenda in Scottish Classrooms
- Oxbridge Entrance and the Deprivation Gap
- The Loneliness of Long-distance Learning
- The Normalisation of Online Learning - Paul Wiltshire
- No Comment
CRE Newsletter Winter/Spring 2021/22 | Issue 109
Contents
- Editorial
- Whatever Happened to the World’s Best Education System?
- The UK - The World’s Big-spenders on Education
- ‘Wear a Skirt to School Day’ in Scotland
- Michael Rosen, the Guardian and Ofsted’s Lack of Humanity
- Summer 2022 - Does More Examination Chaos Lies Ahead?
- No Comment
Newsletter Autumn 2021 | Issue 108
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Newsletter Summer 2021 | Issue 107
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Newsletter Spring 2021 | Issue 106
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Newsletter Winter 2020/21 | Issue 105
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Newsletter Autumn 2020 | Issue 104
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Newsletter Summer 2020 | Issue 103
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Newsletter Spring 2020 | Issue 102
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Newsletter Winter 2019/20 | Issue 101
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Newsletter Autumn 2019 | Issue 100
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Newsletter Summer 2019
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Newsletter Spring 2019
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Newsletter Winter 2019
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Newsletter Autumn 2018
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Newsletter Summer 2018
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Newsletter Spring 2018
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Newsletter Winter 2018
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Newsletter Autumn 2017
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Newsletter Summer 2017
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General Election 2017 - CRE Education Manifesto
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Whole Class Teaching
The CRE is pleased to publish Whole Class Teaching, a pamphlet by Irina Tyk, Head of Holland House School. If you would like to order a complimentary copy, please e-mail or write to Priya Dutta (contact details below). The PDF is available to view here.
Newsletter Spring 2017
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The Campaign for Real Social Science: Restoring Science to the Social Sciences
The CRE is delighted to publish this pamphlet by Dr Bruce Oliver Newsome, Assistant Teaching Professor in International Relations at the University of California, Berkeley. The PDF is available to view here. here
Newsletter Winter 2017
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Newsletter Autumn 2016
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Newsletter Summer 2016
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Newsletter Spring 2016
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Newsletter Winter 2016
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Newsletter Autumn 2015
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The Campaign for Real Social Science: Restoring Science to the Social Sciences
The CRE is delighted to publish this pamphlet by Dr Bruce Oliver Newsome, Assistant Teaching Professor in International Relations at the University of California, Berkeley. The PDF is available to view here. here
Newsletter Winter 2015
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Newsletter Autumn 2014
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CRE Manifesto
The CRE has released its own manifesto for the general election next year. You can view it here.
Whole Class Teaching
The CRE is pleased to publish Whole Class Teaching, a pamphlet by Irina Tyk, Head of Holland House School. If you would like to order a complimentary copy, please e-mail or write to Priya Dutta (contact details below). The PDF is available to view here.
Newsletter Summer 2014
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Newsletter Spring 2014
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Newsletter Winter 2013
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News Release
MORI study for CRE shows 8 in 10 (81%) say schools should be prepared to teach both World Wars
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Newsletter Autumn 2013
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Nick Seaton
It is with very great sadness that we announce the death of Nick Seaton on Thursday 29th November 2012. 
Nick founded the CRE twenty-five years ago and served as chairman for most of that time. Over the past couple of years he continued to work tirelessly in his role as CRE secretary. As the CRE’s central figure, he did more for education in this country than anyone. He kept a flag of resistance flying in the face of educational fashions that have gone on to fail a generation of youngsters. He provided an honest voice for that silent majority of parents, teachers and pupils who were afraid to speak out against the educational establishment. To the end he remained an unsung hero. Without Nick we would never have had a great debate about education because there would not have been a voice of dissent. He was the best of men and he will be greatly missed. The CRE will continue to hold the flag he raised.
It was Nick’s final wish, in writing, that his funeral be a private family event. He asked that any donations be sent to the CRE or to the Macmillan Nurses (www.macmillan.org.uk)
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