Exam Nation: Why Our Obsession with Grades Fails Everyone # and a Better Way to Think about S Chool - Hardcover
by Sammy Wright
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Bodley HeadISBN-13:9781847927521ISBN-10:1847927521UPC:9781847927521Book Category:Education, History, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Schools, Europe, Life StagesBook Topic:Levels, Great Britain, TeenagersWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCF8QPD6F5
Exam Nation: Why Our Obsession with Grades Fails Everyone # and a Better Way to Think about S Chool
Exams, grades, league tables, Ofsted reports. All of them miss the point of school and together they are undermining our whole approach to education. 'An essential read - as entertaining as it is insightful - for anyone who cares about the way we treat young people' Observer What is school for? Drawing on his twenty years as a teacher, hundreds of interviews and his experience on the UK...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bodley HeadISBN-13:9781847927521ISBN-10:1847927521UPC:9781847927521Book Category:Education, History, Family & RelationshipsBook Subcategory:Schools, Europe, Life StagesBook Topic:Levels, Great Britain, TeenagersWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCF8QPD6F5
Sammy Wright is Head of School at a large secondary in Sunderland. He sat on the government's Social Mobility Commission from 2018 to 2021, becoming a key voice in the debates over exam grades during the pandemic. He has taught for twenty years at schools in Oxfordshire, London and the North East. His debut novel Fit won the Northern Book Prize.
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