Why do people share fake news? "While perceived message truth was the main driver of persuasion, message transmission was primarily driven by positive emotion and social engagement, indicating that social connection is prioritized during information sharing." psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

I've just learned of Art Reber's death. Art was a leader in an area of research that was my main focus early in my career. He was a great psychologist and unfailingly kind. www.molesfarewelltributes.com/obituaries/a...

Are the Purported Causes of NAEP Score Decline Actually Symptoms? open.substack.com/pub/dtwuva/p...

ICYMI: The effect of digital tech on children's attention...less likely affecting whether they *can* pay attention and more likely affecting whether they *choose* to. www.educationnext.org/pay-attentio...

State takeovers of districts *not* associated with improved student performance in reading or math. Especially striking as you'd at least expect regression to the mean effects. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Why aren't practices based on research implemented in schools? @tomdee.bsky.social has insights, and ideas for change. www.edweek.org/leadership/o...

Have student's attention spans been decimated by digital technologies? In @educationnext.bsky.social I look at the data and conclude that's not the problem. www.educationnext.org/pay-attentio...

Preschool shows smaller advantage than observed in 1960s and 70s--why? Todays programs have too much -whole-class instruction in math & reading & kids who *don't* go have, on average better experiences. files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED6...

A deep dive from @gtoppo.bsky.social on why kids aren't reading for pleasure www.the74million.org/article/why-...

Drop in LLM Chatbot usage when school lets out for the summer. (Data from OpenRouter, reported by @morningbrew.bsky.social)

Across subjects and grades (6th-college) prequestions improve learning--new evidence from real classrooms (open) psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

New review of meta-analyses on the effect of S-T relationships shows large sig relations with 8 clusters of S outcomes: acad ach, acad emotions, student behavior, beh problems, exec funct, motiv, school belonging and engagement, & well-being. psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

New substack: LLM Chatbots Are the Inscrutable Unknown Variable in Lesson Plans dtwuva.substack.com/p/llm-chatbo...

New evidence that people are starting to talk like ChatGPT www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Roundtable on study strategies with Roddy Roediger, Nidhi Sachdeva, Jared Cooney Horvath, and me, hosted by Kennet Fröjd open.spotify.com/episode/0u3R...

US Reading decline is dramatic over the last 20 years, but no decline among teens...because they never read much in the first place, a point I've been harping on for years, as people often focus on social media & teens re: ⬇️ in reading.

British education minister Nick Gibb explains that England rose in international math and reading rankings by embracing the ideas of American leaders @dtwuva.bsky.social and ED Hirsch… Both of whom are broadly ignored here in America. fordhaminstitute.org/national/com...

New Substack: review of Tim Shanahan's new book, Leveled Reading, Leveled Lives. dtwuva.substack.com/p/a-simple-p...

New Substack: review of Tim Shanahan's new book, Leveled Reading, Leveled Lives. dtwuva.substack.com/p/a-simple-p...

US ignores home-grown education ideas that are accelerating progress overseas. fordhaminstitute.org/national/com...

"Perhaps one of the biggest threats that A.I. poses to education isn’t that it’s going to make educators useless, but that it is going to make educators so much more necessary than we are willing to invest in." @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on AI in ed, w/ Jessica Grose www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

Do pedagogical agents in digital learning influence motivation? New meta-analysis concludes they affect self-efficacy expectations and interest but not other motivational beliefs (open). link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"Controlling for rich measures of cognitive and personality skills and social background, we find substantial benefits [of scholastic athletics] at all levels. Participation in athletics promotes social mobility for disadvantaged and minority students." www.nber.org/papers/w34046

This may be relevant to some of you: I'm not reviewing manuscripts for any journal that asks for the use of my personal data. It's enough that I'm providing free labor by reviewing. For many journals, I cannot access the ms for review unless I agree to use of my data. Oh, well.

This podcast w Tim Shanahan is by the far the easiest way to get up to speed on the research on levelled readers. HIGHLY recommend! (If you want to skip intro, dig in at about 7:30). amplify.com/episode/scie...

"students spend a total of just two hours a day on subjects like reading and math, using A.I.-driven software." Son of a biscuit, people, how many times do you have to see this movie before you know how it ends? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...

New substack: What is the science of reading? And why the definition matters.... dtwuva.substack.com/p/what-is-th...

Is AI eroding our critical thinking? I'm on The Inquiry via @bbcworldservice www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...

WHOLE BOOKS! I pop into this wonderful podcast episode from @douglemov.bsky.social via @knowledgematrs.bsky.social on the value of reading whole books knowledgematterscampaign.org/post/ep-4-li...

Nu beschikbaar!

The problems posed by LLMs for education are immediate and obvious, and the promised benefits remain untested and uncertain. But I see one way that LLMs may inadvertently improve student thinking. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

New data suggests that Race to the Top policies had small positive effects on student achievement, as measured by NAEP reading & math scores. I called that one wrong, I was sure they would have no impact. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...

"Our results suggest that word reading and spelling are one and the same, almost, but that spoken vocabulary knowledge is more closely related to reading than to spelling." Open article from the great Rebecca Treiman and colleagues. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Art of Teaching podcast w Matt Green, touching on a lot of topics from Why Don't Students Like School theartofteaching.podbean.com/e/dr-daniel-...

Video lectures: is engagement/learning affected by whether instructor visibility? No, but engagement is improved is the student's *preference* for visibility is honored. Also, they replicated the finding that speeding the lecture improved learning efficiency onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Always loved the phrase "the windy side of care" but never knew just what Shakespeare meant by it. So I asked ChatGPT, which put the words in the mouth of the wrong character ("It's classic Benedick"), in a quotation that doesn't appear in the play. So I guess I still don't know.

Cool people are the same everywhere. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

I enjoyed being a guest on Amplify’s Science of Reading Podcast--talked with Susan Lambert about the benefits and limitations of comprehension strategies: amplify.com/science-of-r...

Wiley just put the audio version of Why Don't Students Like School on sale--50% off! www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

An introductory course makes people think they know more about a subject than they do. pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Does screen use lead to socioemotional problems in children, or do socioemotional problems prompt children to engage in more screen time? Both, concludes a meta-analysis of longitudinal studies, and both effects are small (open) psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

I've signed the open letter condemning the President's exec order calling for "gold standard science." Sounds great, but it would make a political appointee the sole arbiter of whether science meets that standard (and thus would influence policy) #StandUpForScience actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

Whoever you think I think this cartoon refers to, you're probably right.

Astrocytes make up a large proportion of brain cells. They propagate electrical influences without spiking. Brain communication involves more than just spikes and synapses. bcs.mit.edu/news/overloo... #neuroscience

If we leave the acquisition of morphological knowledge to children's reading, what information is there in books to be acquired? @kathyrastle.bsky.social has answers (open). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New data: teaching domain-specific knowledge does NOT lead to better memory for new content in that domain. psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

When an educator leaves a district, is it likely that their salary increases? "...mean earnings are slightly below pre-exit earnings even 8 years later. However, these average changes conceal wide variation." journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I finally made it to the National Museum of Psychology in Akron, and it is so worth the trip! Beautifully put together and informative, and so many artifacts you're recognize. 🧵Here's Bandura's Bobo doll...