HeyJaredSammy Wright
Research and writing on schools, children, disadvantage and English teaching
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 11
- Latest publication
- Sep 27, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 13, 2026
Latest issues
Boys and girls (opens the original)
Read excerpt
My current book project involves a lot of conversations with children about their lives. As I go, I write them up, with my reflections. None of this is even at a first draft stage yet - but in their quite raw form, the conversations are fascinating. Here are a couple of observations and group discussions from last year which I found interesting. All names and locations are anonymised, and, it goes without saying, I’m trying to understand what the kids say, not stating that they are right...On on
Place, agency and writing (opens the original)
Read excerpt
When I moved to the North East twelve years ago, I asked a class of students in my new school in Sunderland if they had ever read a book set in Sunderland.“No.”Seen a TV show filmed there? Listened to music from the city?“No.”Since then, there has of course been a TV show that pretty much everyone in the city has seen: Sunderland til I die, the Netflix documentary that followed the Black Cats through multiple relegations and then back up again . And if you ever want an explanation for why footba
More Proust (opens the original)
Read excerpt
It’s been a long time since an author new to me has had such an impact. Reading Proust this summer feels like a bomb has gone off in my head. No, I can’t say that. Not precise enough. That’s what it does to you: it turns such a fierce spotlight onto the process of thinking that it makes the normal ways you codify your understanding of the world seem like blunt cliche. It doesn’t feel like a bomb. It feels like a peeling back of pretense, a slow reveal of the secret mechanism of understanding tha
More Proust (opens the original)
Perfection (opens the original)
Read excerpt
I think a lot about words. The way we use them frames our experience of life. The metaphors we use to explain the world also change the world. When we talk about time as if it’s money to be spent, we hoard it and protect it. When we talk about people as if they are lesser, they begin to shrink in our value system.There’s a set of phrases I feel I hear a lot. People are “let down” by society, or institutions. Things “should never have been allowed to happen”. There are other things we are “entitl
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.