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Posts by Sammy Wright

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Everyone’s a winner I wrote a few weeks ago about the zero sum vision of Chinese education.

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Misinformation, the Information Crisis, and schools Neil Postman, Naomi Alderman and Sander Van Der Linden

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Misinformation, the Information Crisis, and schools Neil Postman, Naomi Alderman and Sander Van Der Linden

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Winner takes all Thoughts on 'The Highest Exam' by Ruixie Jia and Hongbin Li with Claire Cousineau

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Boldness and hesitancy A new year and what I want from it.

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Boldness and hesitancy A new year and what I want from it.

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The Score and The Unaccountability Machine A bit of a ramble through some recent reading

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It’s so interesting to see people approaching essentially the same problem from such different perspectives. My own book looked at schools and exams in what I now see is a similar way too - just without having the theoretical framework to properly describe it.

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@dsquareddigest.bsky.social i found the Unaccountability Machine fascinating - and wrote about schools, management cybernetics and games.

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@add-hawk.bsky.social really enjoyed your book - wrote about it in light of exams and school

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The Score and The Unaccountability Machine A bit of a ramble through some recent reading

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Boldness and hesitancy A new year and what I want from it.

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“In education, the fear is always of the cost of change. And the risk we run is of never changing because the cost seems too high. “

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Boldness and hesitancy A new year and what I want from it.

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That was a cracking Halloween costume by my youngest

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Knowledge-rich

The latest post in our series "What's in a Word" is out now.
@sammywright.bsky.social examines the phrase 'knowledge-rich' which has a proper meaning, but around which a lot of other more vague and unsubstantiated ideas have accrued... www.edge.co.uk/research/wha...

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PM - Third resignation in grooming gang inquiry - BBC Sounds A third abuse victim resigns from the survivors panel.

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@twinklresources.bsky.social are launching a new podcast series for leaders and teachers, and episode 1 is here! It was great to pick @sammywright.bsky.social's brain on the shape and texture of English schools. www.twinkl.co.uk/l/1hjk03
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Exams Expose, they DON'T Solve | Leading with... Sammy Wright | Episode 1
Exams Expose, they DON'T Solve | Leading with... Sammy Wright | Episode 1 YouTube video by Twinkl Educational Publishing

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School trip to flamingoland

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Because society works better when people find fulfilment in life even when their jobs are meaningless and mundane.

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Education and money I’ve read a few things lately about the connection between educational levels and income, and they made me think of the argument I made about in Exam Nation.

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Apparently they’re ‘flying’!

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Why SEN is complicated… open.substack.com/pub/sammywri...

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A New Thing I’m not at school. It’s exciting. I’m at my desk, with a clean notebook, a list of jobs, and a three year timeline in front of me.

Something new…
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Best book ever

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Apparently they’re ‘flying’!

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Woo-hoo! Paperback in shops, and on offer at Waterstones!

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Three weeks to go… The paperback of Exam Nation is out on 7th August, so I thought I’d do a little series of short extracts, starting with the very beginning.

Out today in paperback!

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Exam Nation School should equip children for adulthood. In reality, it means one thing: exams. Exam Nation sets out a better way – and, crucially, shows us how we might get there. Educationalist and Head of Scho...

Out today - please buy/share/review, and above all read. I’m so proud of this book and the impact it’s had - and still a bit surprised at the places it’s taken me too over the last year.

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