Below is a list of some of the press coverage for the Cambridge Review's interim reports released in October.
1. Community Soundings: report on the Primary Review regional witness sessions (released 12.10.07)
12.10.07
• BBC Online - Primary children 'suffer stress': Primary school children and their parents are suffering from "deep anxiety" about modern life, according to a study of education in England.
• The Guardian - Study reveals stressed out 7-11 year-olds - Polly Curtis.
• The Guardian - Testing, testing - too much for our children? - Donald McLeod blog:
"When it comes to tests children themselves gave mixed messages to the Cambridge University researchers and seemed less hostile to them than teachers and parents...".
• ATL Online - 'Primary Review publishes first report'.
• The Times Online - Pressure of tests 'means primary school pupils lose their childhood' - Alexandra Frean.
• The Independent - The primary cause for concern: Our young children are anxious, badly behaved, stressed, depressed and obsessed... - Richard Gerver.
• Earthtimes.org.uk - Annual tests stressing primary school children in the UK - Jayesh P. Yadav.
• Times Educational Supplement - Our primaries are heaven - Helen Ward.
• Times Educational Supplement - Backlash against testing regime - Helen Ward.
• Times Educational Supplement - Bleak vision of our world - Jonathan Milne.
• politics.co.uk - Report author explains results.
• politics.co.uk - 'Consumerist' fear for children is common.
• Press Association – story circulated to all regional and local newspapers.
13.10.07
• The Times Online - Teachers struggle to balance cultures and 'inclusiveness' - Ruth Gledhill.
• Cambridge Evening News - Report says pupils 'stressed out'.
14.10.07
• The Sunday Times - We stop our children being childish – that’s why they’re anxious - Rod Liddle.
• The Independent - The kids are perfectly all right - Tim Lott:
"Gun crime, gang violence, exam overload, traffic – these are the things said to be troubling our children. But they are never bored and are having the time of their lives..."
15.10.07
• The Telegraph - Pushy parents fuel exam stress for children - Graeme Paton.
16.10.07
• Spiked Online - The myth of stressed and depressed schoolkids: If we’re not careful, claims that young people can’t cope with the ‘intense pressure’ of exams could become a self-fulfilling prophecy - Helene Guldberg.
