Are numerical grades failing students?

By Gordon Cairns
Community contribution / November 3, 2016

I recently read a review of the new release by pop superstar Lady Gaga who has already achieved sales of 27 million with her previous work. 'Joanne' is her fifth album and is a follow up to 2014's Cheek-to-Cheek, her third consecutive number one in the USA. What did the reviewer think of it? I've no idea, I was so distracted by all of the numbers attached to the review, all I could remember were the statistics which defined the artist.

As a species we are beguiled by figures; we measure ourselves against others by our vital statistics, feel defined by ...

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Gordon Cairns is an English teacher and education journalist in the UK.

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