Wednesday 25 August 2010
The language crisis in British schools
Well languages are hard and require work, religious studies is a gut course where no-one knows if you are right or wrong until they are dead.
The distribution of A* to C grades is astonishing. If the system had any integrity, there should be
PerformanceNormal
11% F 2.3%
12% D 13.6%
17% }
20% } C 34.1%
17% }
It must be designed to do something else, but no one seems knows what that something else is.
Well languages are hard and require work, religious studies is a gut course where no-one knows if you are right or wrong until they are dead.
The distribution of A* to C grades is astonishing. If the system had any integrity, there should be
Performance
11% F 2.3%
12% D 13.6%
17% }
20% } C 34.1%
17% }
12% B 34.1%
7% A 13.6%
4% A* 2.3%
Clearly, the GCSE system is not designed to separate students by academic performance (or even test-taking ability). If it is, it is a failure of such epic proportion that it should be scrapped and everyone associated with it sacked. 7% A 13.6%
4% A* 2.3%
It must be designed to do something else, but no one seems knows what that something else is.
# posted by Had It in Holland Park @ 00:17 
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