Forthcoming events, hard lessons from the United States, Eton speaks, sustainability, global citizenship, Cameron’s ‘family test’, and tributes to Anna Craft … What you may have missed during August.
CPRT’s new website went live just before the end of the summer term. Among its innovations is a more or less weekly blog to which you are invited to respond and which many are now regularly circulating via Twitter and email. The blog continued throughout August, for not everyone was on holiday and neither education nor the wider world took a break.
If you’ve just returned from holiday, or if with impressive self-discipline you switched off your computer, smartphone or tablet for the duration, here’s what we have discussed.
- Tony Little, head of Eton, intervenes in the debate about tests, standards and the curriculum.
- Evidence, ideology, myths, and selective amnesia: cloning or learning? What the UK’s education policymakers could really learn from the United States.
- Conflict, sustainability, global citizenship and ethics: the parts England’s national curriculum may not reach.
- Applying David Cameron’s ‘family test’ to primary education: joining up the dots of childhood, education and the economy, and squaring the circle of inequality and disadvantage.
- SEEd’s campaign to have sustainability reinstated as a curriculum requirement.
- Finally and very sadly: Professor Anna Craft, CPRT co-director, died on 11 August, thus depriving education of a champion of creativity and a great force for good. Many have added their comments and memories to our obituary, and for those who have been away the invitation to comment remains open.
I’ve held the fort during August but you’ll be relieved to hear that during the coming weeks others will be joining me on CPRT’s blog roster. Apart from commentary on current educational developments, we’ll be sharing findings from CPRT’s eight new research projects and consulting about the messages we should give to the parties contesting the 2015 general election. CPR conducted a similar exercise before the 2010 election. Have the resulting 11 policy priorities been addressed? What has the Coalition done right and wrong? What hopes should we voice for 2015?
Events
Also on the home page is an expanding list of events for teachers organised by CPRT and others. Contact links are provided. If your own organisation wishes to advertise a forthcoming event, please contact CPRT’s administrator, Greg Frame.
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