The Campaign for Real Education, established 1987, is a pressure group in the United Kingdom. The groups campaigns to "press for higher standards and more parental choice in state education," and supports grammar school

Grammar school

A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and some other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching classical languages but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school.The original purpose of mediaeval...

s. Among its concerns are truancy

Truancy

Truancy is any intentional unauthorized absence from compulsory schooling. The term typically describes absences caused by students of their own free will, and usually does not refer to legitimate "excused" absences, such as ones related to medical conditions...

, low educational and behavioural standards, mismanagement of school funding, and "faddish" teaching methods such as child-centred learning

Student-centred learning

Student-centred learning is an approach to education focusing on the needs of the students, rather than those of others involved in the educational process, such as teachers and administrators...

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• Talented children at primary schools being ignored in October 2009
• Nursery rhymes in October 2009
• Teachers considering return of the cane in October 2008
• Knotted ties banned in Stockport school in March 2007
• Cardiff school gives tickets to Old Trafford for high attendance at school
• Manchester primary school bans pencil cases in March 2005
• Unemployable youths in March 2004
• Spelling in January 2004