Sammy Wright is Head of School at a large secondary school 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 twenty years at schools in Oxfordshire, London and the North East. His debut novel Fit won the Northern Book Prize.
Books in order of publication:
Fit – 2021
The End of Exams: Rethinking the Point of School – 2024
Exam Nation: Why Our Obsession with Grades Fails Everyone – and a Better Way to Think About School – 2024
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