Sammy Wright Exam Nation : Why Our Obsession with Grades Fails Everyone - & a

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 ObserverWhat is school for? Drawing on his twenty years as a teacher, hundreds of interviews and his experience on the UK Governments Social Mobility Commission, head teacher Sammy Wright exposes the fundamental misconception at the heart of our education system. By focusing on the grades pupils get in neatly siloed, academic subjects, we end up ranking them and our schools into winners and losers some pupils are set on a trajectory to university the rest are left illequipped for the world they actually face. Wrights entertaining and hugely important book shows that schools are and should be so much more than this. With wisdom and humour, balancing idealism and pragmatism, he sets out what a better way would look like and how we might get there. Brilliantly illuminates the realities and blindspots of the system Jeffrey BoakyeDeeply absorbing...Wright deserves the highest marks Financial TimesSuch a compelling read, no matter your outlook TelegraphExtraordinary and brilliant . . . the book education has been waiting for Laura McInerney, cofounder of Teacher Tapp | Sammy Wright Exam Nation : Why Our Obsession with Grades Fails Everyone - & a