Drawing on twenty years as teacher, hundreds of interviews, experience on the UK Government’s Social Mobility Commission, head teacher Sammy Wright exposes the fundamental misconception at the heart of our education system. Focussing on the grades pupils get in neatly siloed, academic subjects, we simply end up ranking them and our schools into winners and losers: some pupils are set on a trajectory to university- the rest are left ill-equipped for the world they actually face. Wright shows that schools are- and should be- so much more than this. With wisdom and humour, balancing idealism and pragmatism, he sets out … Continue reading Misconception of at the heart of our educational system