The 2024 Caroline Benn Memorial Lecture. The problem with ‘fairness’ and ‘choice’: the counterintuitive truth of poverty and education
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Volume 67 Number 1 (2025)
The 2024 Caroline Benn Memorial Lecture. The problem with ‘fairness’ and ‘choice’: the counterintuitive truth of poverty and education
Sammy Wright pages 69‑81
DOI: 10.3898/forum.2025.67.1.07
Abstract
This is the text of the 2024 Caroline Benn Memorial Lecture, on 12 November in a House of Commons committee room, in which Sammy Wright explores issues of educational purpose, fairness and choice. He draws on his experience as a practitioner and researcher to reveal the effects on students of a system marred by deeply embedded inequalities.
To cite this article
Sammy Wright (2025) The 2024 Caroline Benn Memorial Lecture. The problem with ‘fairness’ and ‘choice’: the counterintuitive truth of poverty and education, FORUM, 67(1), 69-81 . https://doi.org/10.3898/forum.2025.67.1.07