What is school for?
The biggest problem facing education today is how to make it fit for a future we cannot yet see. To do this, though, we have to first address how it has been shaped by our past.
Sammy Wright comes to the Bright Ideas Gathering to take a deeper look at the actual functions of our educational institutions in British Society – not just what we think they are for. He’ll seek to lay out a better way to think about schools.
Samuel Wright’s bio
- Sammy Wright is Head of School at a large secondary in Sunderland. He sat on the government’s Social Mobility Commission from 2018 to 2021, becoming a key voice in the debates over exam grades during the pandemic.
- He has taught for over twenty years at schools in Oxfordshire, London and the North East.
- His debut novel, ‘Fit’, won the Northern Book Prize, and his first non-fiction, ‘Exam Nation’, was published by Penguin in August 2024 and selected as Radio 4 Book of the Week.
