CRE Newsletters
CRE Newsletter Summer/Autumn 2025 - The CRE Manifesto 2025 | Issue 116
Contents
- The Consequences of Intimidation
- Five Current Focal Points:
- Focal Point A - Union Legal Action Against Ofsted
- Focal Point B - Proposed Strike Action
- Focal Point C - V-E / V-J Day and the National Curriculum for History
- Focal Point D - The Children's Wellbeing Bill: Section 41
- Focal Point E - Universities Facing Bankruptcy - The CRE Manifesto 2025
A strategy for School Improvement and a Starting Point for Debate
- Section 1 - National Curriculum Straitjacket
- Section 2 - The Flawed Public Examination System
- Section 3 - The Tyranny of Teacher Training (including Ten Commandments of Teaching)
- Section 4 - Ofsted Reports
- Section 5 - Artificial Intelligence
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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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No 77, Summer 2012: Exam fiasco ; Establishment’s destruction of geography exposed (Click HERE to open as PDF)
No 73, Spring 2011: New chairman takes over; Primary science curriculum
No 72, Winter 2010: Start of the counter revolution?; Free speech in jeopardy (Click HERE to open as PDF)
No 71, Summer 2010: Wise reforms or more confusion?; Will 'free' schools take off? (Click HERE to open as PDF)
No 70, Spring 2010: How can this be social justice?; Fewer schools mean less choice. (Click HERE to open as PDF)
No 69, Winter 2009: Primary standards fall; And 'experts' let us down - again:
No 68, Summer 2009: A Desolation of Learning; Curriculum sinks and costs soar
No 67, Spring 2009: The twittering curriculum; Further education in chaos
No 66, Winter 2008: The end of geography; Stoking disruption
No 65, Summer 2008: No excuse for testing fiasco; In bad faith
No 64, Spring 2008: Destructive policies begin to bite; Academies: a model education?
No 63, Winter 2007: The Great Reading Disaster; Beware BSF
No 62, Summer 2007: The curriculum is corrupted; ...And the ideology is reinforced
No 61, Spring 2007: Policies are not all they seem; New call for more grammars
No 60, Winter 2006: Levelling down in Lincolnshire; Good primary practice?
No 59, Summer 2006: Education Bill crawls ahead; Ofsted is now just a political tool
No 58, Spring 2006: 2006 brings alarming news; But Rose Report offers some hope
No 57, Winter 2005: Wasted talent; White Paper too weak to work
No 56, Summer 2005: Hope over teaching of reading? Parental choice is undermined
No 55, Spring 2005: Adding to human misery; NLS fails 1.2m children
No 54, Winter 2004: Good schools still threatened; Tomlinson fails the test
No 53, Summer 2004: Per pupil costs soar; Confusion reigns
No 52, Spring 2004: Official: standards have fallen; Gloucester put on hold
No 51, Winter 2003: Attack on excellence in Gloucester; Fair play on admissions?
No 50, Summer 2003: Funding crisis: who is to blame? Majority supports vouchers
No 49, Spring 2003: Fundamental reforms proposed; Education budget abused
No 48, Winter 2002: Power to parents; Freedom of information?
No 47, Summer 2002: State education costs as much as private; Bureaucracy grows and grows
No 46, Spring 2002: Class war continues; ...And spreads