Product Description
Exam Nation
Author(s): Sammy Wright
Format: Paperback
Why Our Obsession with Grades Fails Everyone – and a Better Way to Think About School
School should equip children for adulthood. In reality, it means one thing: exams. Exam Nation sets out a better way - and, crucially, shows us how we might get there.
'An essential read - as entertaining as it is insightful - for anyone who cares about the way we treat young people ... Brilliant' OBSERVER
Educationalist and Head of School Sammy Wright argues that grades, rankings and Ofsted reports all miss the point of school, and together they are undermining our whole approach to education. Rather than sorting pupils into winners and losers, we need to think differently about what our schools are actually for - to see them as communities not factories - if we are to give all young people the opportunities and future they deserve.
'Such a compelling read' TELEGRAPH
'Deeply absorbing ... Wright deserves the highest marks' FINANCIAL TIMES
'Extraordinary ... The book education has been waiting for' LAURA MCINERNEY
'Persuasive ... He is clearly a superb teacher' SAM FREEDMAN, LITERARY REVIEW
About the Author
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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