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Every year pupils appear to sail through their GCSEs, fuelling yet another heated debate about falling education standards. The Channel 4 series That'll Teach 'Em tackled this thorny issue by putting 30 16-year-olds through the tough regime of a re-creation of a 1950s state grammar boarding school and the academic rigour of O-levels.
The 3Rs website, which accompanied the series, introduces viewers to the students and teachers and the new/old world that they inhabited. It shows some of the ways that education today is very different from education in the 1950s. It also addresses the education debate with articles asking why people have always criticised education and what is worthy of praise in it today.
Three months after the experiment ended, Channel 4 revisited the participants for the one-off programme That Taught 'Em.