Exams and tests Follow

Students should fight back

Factory workers hit back

Exams create class divides

 Exclusions are a product of a broken education system obsessed with exams and directed towards a single model of 'success'

But even under the teacher-assessed system, sharp class divisions remain

Algorithms aren’t neutral or simply technical. They are based on assumptions and views about people as individuals and as classes.

A fresh row has broken out over exam grades. And it exposes the way that the system operates to drive down the results of working class children

One student says, 'The U-turn was a massive victory, but this is only going to finish when we get education reform and get rid of scum like Gavin Williamson and Boris Johnson'

Students have taught all of us a lesson in class war. Protest gets results.

 Widespread fury over the exams degrading scandal has forced the Tories into a humiliating U-turn

Class is trashing the lives of hundreds of thousands of students. The ­downgrading of swathes of A-Level students’ grades in England and Wales has exposed how the system operates to keep working class people in check. 

Students marched in central London on Friday demanding that Tory education secretary Gavin Williamson resign. They chanted 'No Tories, no cheats, no Eton elites'.

The downgrading of student A-Level results across England and Wales is a disgraceful attack that has to be resisted.

The Tories are scrambling to try and contain an outpouring of anger over student exam results. Fury at the downgrading of hundreds of thousands of students’ grades has pushed education secretary Gavin Williamson into a humiliating retreat.

Class, not ability, determines what grades you get in school— and the exams fiasco in Scotland made that explicit.  

Scottish teachers' judgements about pupils' exam grades have been overruled, and there's a strong element of class inequality built into the process.