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I often write about research studies from various fields and how they can be applied to the classroom. I write individual posts about ones that I think are especially significant, and will continue to do so. However, so many studies are published that it’s hard to keep up. So I’ve started writing a “round-up” of some of them each week or every other week as a regular feature.

You can see all my “Best” lists related to education research here.

Here are some new useful studies (and related resources):

Historical Patterns and Trends in Teacher-Student Demographic Changes in the United States

Teaching kids how to become better citizens is from Science Daily.

The Power of Multimodal Learning (in 5 Charts) is from Edutopia.

There’s a lot of evidence of the harms of smacking children.

There’s also evidence that children and young people learn more from rewards than from punishment, including this computational study by @stepalminteri.bsky.social

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— Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (@sjblakemore.bsky.social) March 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM

Test scores (for sure) don’t capture all the contributions school make to students. An alternative is to use FUTURE student grades as a measure, but it’s complicated. This is an interesting take on the issue (disclaimer, I reviewed this paper). 👇https://t.co/rtaMorGh7e

— Dan Goldhaber (@CEDR_US) March 5, 2025

Meta analysis indicates robust relationship between reading fluency and comprehension (open) https://t.co/7HBq3VcoYT pic.twitter.com/gb4vdPQbjR

— Daniel Willingham (@DTWillingham) March 4, 2025