Cambridge Primary Review
Complete list of CPR books, reports, briefings, articles, lectures and media releases from 2006-12, many of them downloadable, at CPR.
Cambridge Primary Review Trust
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CPRT Research Reports and Briefings
McNamara, O., Murray, J., Phillips, R. (February 2017) Policy and Research Evidence in the ‘Reform’ of Primary Initial Teacher Education in England. York: Cambridge Primary Review Trust. Report / Briefing
Burnett, C. (July 2016) The Digital Age and its Implications for Learning and Teaching in the Primary School. York: Cambridge Primary Review Trust. Report / Briefing
Mansell, W. (May 2016) Academies: Autonomy, Accountability, Quality and Evidence. York: Cambridge Primary Review Trust. Report/ Briefing
Ainscow, M., Dyson, A., Hopwood, L., and Thomson, S. (May 2016) Primary Schools Responding to Diversity: Barriers and Possibilities. York: Cambridge Primary Review Trust. Report / Briefing
Jopling, M. and Vincent, S. (April 2016) Vulnerable Children: Needs and Provision in the Primary Phase, York: Cambridge Primary Review Trust. Report / Briefing
Bourn, D., Hunt, F., Blum, N., and Lawson, H. (February 2016) Primary Education for Global Learning and Sustainability, York: Cambridge Primary Review Trust. Report / Briefing
Pickett, K and Vanderbloemen, L. (September 2015), Mind the Gap: Tackling Social and Educational Inequality, York: Cambridge Primary Review Trust. Report / Briefing
Goswami, U. (February 2015), Children’s Cognitive Development and Learning, York: Cambridge Primary Review Trust. Report / Briefing
Robinson, C. (December 2014), Children, their Voices and their Experiences of School: what does the evidence tell us?, York: Cambridge Primary Review Trust. Report / Briefing
Harlen, W. (November 2014), Assessment, Standards and Quality of Learning in Primary Education, York: Cambridge Primary Review Trust. Report / Briefing
Reports and briefings updating CPR’s research reviews in four other priority areas are in preparation. Further details of these projects can be found here.
CPRT/Pearson
Primary Curriculum 2014: developing an outstanding curriculum in your school (DVD) (please note that this link is to a short section of the video only; the full video is available to delegates of the Primary Curriculum 2014 conferences)
Responses and submissions to official consultations
What is Education for? Submission to House of Commons Education Committee Inquiry into the Purpose and Quality of Education in England. 25th January 2016
DfE consultation on a World Class Teaching Profession, February 3rd 2015.
DfE performance descriptors for KS1/2, December 19th 2014.
DfE’s use of evidence, December 17th 2014.
DfE’s primary assessment and accountability proposals, October 11th 2013.
DfE National Curriculum Review: Spoken language consultation, April 16th 2013.
National Curriculum Review: CPR response to the proposals outlined in the Secretary of State’s letter, June 11th 2012.
DfE Review of Teachers’ Standards (Phase 2), September 6th 2011.
Inspection 2012: Responses from the CPR to selected questions in the March 2011 Proposed Inspection Framework, May 20th 2011.
DfE Review of Teachers’ Standards, May 1st 2011.
National Curriculum Review: Phase 1B, April 14th 2011.
DfE’s National Curriculum Review, April 14th 2011.
DfE’s Consultation on the National Curriculum, Phase 1: General Concerns about the Process, April 14th 2011.
Key Stage 2 Testing and Accountability Review, January 20th 2011.
DfE’s Consultation on the National Curriculum: The study of English, 2011.
Lectures and Articles About CPR/CPRT Since 2012
- What works and what matters: education in spite of policy. Keynote at CPRT’s national conference – Primary Education: what is and what might be. London, 18 November 2016.
- Preperation for What? Primary to secondary and beyond. Keynote at Annual Conference of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL). Birmingham, 5 March 2016.
- Evidence, policy and the reform of primary education: a cautionary tale. The 2014 Godfrey Thomson Trust Lecture. University of Edinburgh, 13 May 2014 Forum – 2014 Edinburgh as published
- The best that had been thought and said? Making a difference with the Cambridge Primary Review Trust. Keynote from launch event for CPRT and its partnership with Pearson, British Academy, London. 23 September 2013 Launch_RJA_keynote_F.pdf
- Neither National Nor a Curriculum? Forum. Volume 54, Number 3. 2012 Neither-National-Nor-a-Curriculum.pdf
- Visions of education, roads to reform: the global educational race and the Cambridge Primary Review Trust Conference keynote, Universidad Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, Chile 30 October 2012 Alexander_Chile_GMU_lecture_1_121030.pdf (English) http://www.robinalexander.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Alexander-Visiones-de-Education.pdf (Spanish)
- International evidence, national policy and classroom practice: questions of judgement, vision and trust. Keynote at Third Van Leer International Conference on Education, Jerusalem. 24 May 2012 20120524_Van_Leer_Alexander.pdf (English) 20120524_Van_Leer_Alexander_רובין אלכסנדר.pdf (Hebrew)
- Entitlement, freedom, minimalism and essential knowledge: can the curriculum circle be squared? CPPS Westminster Seminar Keynote, London 23 April 2012 20120423_CPPS_text_Alexander.pdf
Previous lectures from 2006 to 2012 can be found here.
Media Releases
Media releases relating to the Cambridge Primary Review Trust can be found here.
Previous media releases 2006 to 2012 can be found here.