TY - BOOK ID - 136324825 TI - Education under siege PY - 2013 SN - 1447311337 9781447311331 9781447311348 1447311345 1447311310 9781447311317 9781447311317 9781299923072 1299923070 1447311329 PB - Bristol, UK DB - UniCat KW - Grossbritannien. KW - Großbritannien. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136324825 AB - At a time when education is considered crucial to a country's economic success, recent UK governments have insisted their reforms are the only way to make England's system world class. Yet pupils are tested rather than educated, teachers bullied rather than trusted and parents cast as winners or losers in a gamble for school places. Education under siege considers the English education system as it is and as it might be. In a highly accessible style, Peter Mortimore, an author with wide experience of the education sector, both in the UK and abroad, identifies the current system's strengths and ER -