A full listing of press releases issued will appear here throughout the course of the Primary Review.

• Reference 0805: 16 May 2008 - Learning and Teaching in Primary Schools: processes and contexts
  Covers the release of a group of three interim reports consisting of:
  i) Research Survey 2/4: Learning and Teaching in Primary Schools: insights from TLRP (Mary James and Andrew Pollard)
  ii) Research Survey 6/1: Primary Schools: the built environment (Karl Wall, Julie Dockrell and Nick Peacey)
  iii) Research Suvey 9/2: Classes, Groups and Transitions: structures for teaching and learning (Peter Blatchford, Susan Hallam, Judith Ireson and Peter Kutnick, with Andrea Creech)
  
  
• Reference 0804: 18 April 2008 - Primary Teachers: training, development, leadership and workforce reform
  Covers the release of a group of three interim reports consisting of:
  i) Research Survey 6/2: Primary Schools: the professional environment (Liz Jones, Andy Pickard and Ian Stronach)
  ii) Research Survey 6/3: Primary Teachers: initial teacher education, continuing professional development and school leadership development (Olwen McNamara, Rosemary Webb and Mark Brundrett)
  iii) Research Survey 6/4: Primary Workforce Management and Reform (Hilary Burgess)
  
  
• Reference 0803: 29 February 2008 - Governing, funding and reforming primary education: four more research reports from the Primary Review
  Covers the release of a group of four interim reports consisting of:
  i) Research Survey 3/2: The Trajectory and Impact of National Reform: curriculum and assessment in English primary schools (Dominic Wyse, Elaine McCreery and Harry Torrance)
  ii) Research Survey 4/3: Quality Assurance in English Primary Education (Peter Cunningham and Philip Raymont)
  iii) Research Survey 10/1: The Funding of English Primary Education (Philip Noden and Anne West)
  iv) Research Survey 10/2: The Governance and Administration of English Primary Education (Maria Balarin and Hugh Lauder)
  
  
• Reference 0802: 08 February 2008 - Other primary schools and ours: what can we learn from international comparison?
  Covers the release of a group of three interim reports consisting of:
  i) Research Survey 9/1: The Structure of Primary Education: England and other countries (Anna Riggall and Caroline Sharp)
  ii) Research Survey 3/1: Primary Curriculum and Assessment: England and other countries (Kathy Hall and Kamil Øzerk)
  iii) Research Survey 3/3: Primary Curriculum Futures (James Conroy, Moira Hulme and Ian Menter)
  
  
• Reference 0801: 18 January 2008 - What is primary education for? Fundamental questions from the Primary Review's latest research reports
  Covers the release of a group of four interim reports consisting of:
  i) Research Survey 1/1: Aims as Policy in English Primary Education (John White)
  ii) Research Survey 1/2: Aims and Values in Primary Education: England and other countries (Maha Shuayb and Sharon O’Donnell)
  iii) Research Survey 1/3: Aims for Primary Education: the changing national context (Stephen Machin and Sandra McNally)
  iv) Research Survey 1/4: Aims for Primary Education: changing global contexts (Hugh Lauder, John Lowe and Rita Chawla-Duggan)
  
  
• Reference 0705: 11 December 2007 - Comment on today's announcement about the Children's Plan
  Professor Robin Alexander, Director to the Primary Review, responds to the announcement by Ed Balls, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, about the Government's Children's Plan.
  See here for the Department for Children, Schools and Families page on the Children's Plan.
  
  
• Reference 0704: 14 December 2007 - Latest Primary Review research surveys question assumptions about how young children think and learn; and how their specific needs are identified and met
  Covers the release of a group of four interim reports consisting of:
  i) Research Survey 2/1a: Children's Cognitive Development and Learning (Usha Goswami and Peter Bryant)
  ii) Research Survey 2/1b: Children's Social Development, Peer Interaction and Classroom Learning (Christine Howe and Neil Mercer)
  iii) Research Survey 5/1: Children in Primary Education: demography, culture, diversity and inclusion (Mel Ainscow, Jean Conteh, Alan Dyson and Francis Gallanaugh)
  iv) Research Survey 5/2: Learning Needs and Difficulties Among Children of Primary School Age: definition, identification, provision and issues (Harry Daniels and Jill Porter)
  
  
• Reference 0703: 23 November 2007 - Striking the Balance: Support vulnerable children and families and tackle childhood poverty, but listen to children and don't take over their lives.
  Covers the release of a group of four interim reports consisting of:
  i) Research Survey 5/3: Children and their Primary Schools: pupils' voices (Carol Robinson and Michael Fielding)
  ii) Research Survey 7/1: Parenting, Caring and Educating (Yolande Muschamp, Felicity Wikeley, Tess Ridge and Maria Balarin)
  iii) Research Survey 8/1: Children's Lives Outside School and their Educational Impact (Berry Mayall)
  iv) Research Survey 8/2: Primary Schools and Other Agencies (Ian Barron, Rachel Holmes, Maggie MacLure and Katherine Runswick-Cole)
  
  
• Reference 0702: 02 November 2007 - Further questions about standards and testing from the Primary Review.
  Covers the release of a group of three interim reports consisting of:
  i) Research Survey 3/4: The quality of learning: assessment alternatives for primary education (Wynne Harlen)
  ii) Research Survey 4/1: Standards and quality in English primary schools over time: the national evidence (Peter Tymms and Christine Merrell)
  iii) Research Survey 4/2: Standards in English primary education: the international evidence (Chris Whetton, Graham Ruddock and Liz Twist) 
  
  
• Reference 0701: 12 October 2007 - Taking the Educational Temperature: First interim report from the Primary Review.
  
  
• Reference 0601: 13 October 2006 - Spotlight on Primary Education in England in Biggest Independent Review for 40 Years.