GCSEs: schools are 'playing the system'

Students at the Ridings' Federation Winterbourne International Academy open their GCSE results. Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty ImagesThe release of this year's GCSE results was to be a pivotal moment for tens of thousands of pupils. But it was almost as significant for teachers, aware that in an era of school league tables and ever closer scrutiny of results this is their own moment of judgment.With secondary schools still, for now, ranked in such a relatively narrow way – the percentage of

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