Exam Nation: Why Our Obsession with Grades Fails Everyone # and a Better Way to Think about S Chool

by Sammy Wright

Exams, grades, league tables, Ofsted reports. All of them miss the point of school and together they are undermining our whole approach to education.

What is school for? In theory, it equips young people to become independent and productive, to get jobs and forge lives, perhaps to be 'good citizens'. In reality, it means one thing: exams.

By focussing on the grades pupils get in neatly siloed, academic subjects, we end up ranking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847927521
• ISBN13: 9781847927521
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Bodley Head
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.