Campaign for Real Education

 

18 Westlands Grove, York YO31 1EF.  Tel. 01904 424134 or 07775 656608.  Email. cred@cre.org.uk

Chairman: Nick Seaton.  Vice Chairmen: Jennifer Chew OBE, Jacqui Davies, Katie Ivens

Secretary:  Dr Vera Dalley, 12 Pembroke Square, Kensington, London W8 6PA.  Tel. 0207 937 2122

 

 

 

Latest:

Destructive policies begin to bite; Academies: a model education?

and more in

Newsletter, Spring 2008

FURTHER READING

 

 (All the titles listed below should be available from libraries, from www.amazon.co.uk or from good bookshops)

 

Brave New Schools by Berit Kjos, Harvest House Publishers, 1985.

 

All Must Have Prizes by Melanie Phillips, Little, Brown & Company, 1996.

 

Culture in the Classroom: a personal view by Irina Tyk, Centre for Policy Studies 1996

 

Reading by Martin Turner and Tom Burkard, Centre for Policy Studies, 1996

 

Spelling Standards: how to correct the decline by Jennifer Chew, Centre for Policy Studies, 1996

 

Cloning of the American Mind: Eradicating Morality through Education  by B.K. Eakman, Huntington House Publishers, 1998.

 

The Betrayed Generations: Standards in British Schools 1950-2000  by John Marks, Centre for Policy Studies, 2000.

 

What Are Special Educational Needs: An Analysis of a New Growth Industry by John Marks, Centre for Policy Studies, 2000.

 

Class War by Chris Woodhead, Little, Brown, 2002.

 

The Road to Malpsychia: humanist psychology and our discontents by Joyce Milton, Encounter Books 2002.

 

Education and training: A business blueprint for reform by Ruth Lea, Institute of Directors, 2002.

 

Power to Parents and The True Cost of State Education by John Redwood and Nick Seaton, Centre for Policy Studies, 2002.

 

Kill the Messenger: The War on Standardized  Testing by Richard P. Phelps, Transaction Publishers, 2003.

 

Government Failure: E.G. West on Education edited by James Tooley and James Stanfield,  Institute of Economic Affairs, 2003.

 

Whatever Happened to Religious Education?  by Penny Thompson, The Lutterworth Press, 2003.

 

Sex Education or Indoctrination by Valerie Riches, Family and Youth Concern, 2004.

 

From the progressive viewpoint

 

The Challenge for the Comprehensive School by David H. Hargreaves, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983.

 

The New Social Curriculum: A guide to cross-curricular issues edited by Barry Dufour, Cambridge University Press, 1990.

 

Education for Citizenship in a Multi-Cultural Society by James Lynch, Cassell Education, 1992.

 

Quality Circle Time in the Primary Classroom by Jenny Mosley, LDA, 1997.

 

Quality Circle Time in the Secondary School by Jenny Mosley and Marilyn Tew, David Fulton Publishers, 1999.

 

For use in schools (or by parents)

 

The Phonics Handbook (plus a range of teaching materials) by Sue Lloyd, Jolly Learning Ltd.

 

Jolly Dictionary by Sara Wernham and Sue Lloyd, Jolly Learning Ltd, 2003.

 

English Prep by Susan Elkin, Galore Park Publishing Ltd, 2004

 

Maths Prep, Books 1,2 and 3 by Serena Alexander, Galore Park Publishing Ltd, 2003, 2004.

 

Science Prep, Books 1 and 2 by W. R. Pickering, Galore Park Publishing Ltd, 2003, 2004.

 

Latin Prep, Books 1,2 and 3 by Theo Finn, Galore Park Publishing Ltd, 2003, 2004.

 

Skeleton French: All you need to build up your body of French Grammar by Claire Buet-Charlwood and David Mort, Galore Park Publishing, 2004.

 

French  Prep by  Nigel  Pearce, Galore Park Publishing Ltd, 2004.

 

So you really want to learn Spanish by Mike Bolger, Galore Park Publishing Ltd, 2003, 2004

 

A People’s History of Britain by Rebecca Fraser, Chatto and Windus, 2003.

 

/Campaign for Real Education, 2004

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