Product reviews for Around the world in 80 schools

I enjoyed this book enormously – which is annoying, because Adam keeps showing us schools that are bold, hopeful and gloriously bothered about young people, and I found myself muttering, ‘Why aren't we all doing more of this?’

Around the World in 80 Schools is a generous book, full of stories and ideas, but beneath it runs a quiet dissatisfaction with education as a transactional exercise. I recognise that sense of botheredness. I share it. Adam doesn’t offer silver bullets – thank goodness – but he does offer possibility. And sometimes that’s exactly what tired educators need: not certainty, but permission to imagine better.