#70. More Evidence that Government-Imposed School “Reforms” Increase Student Suffering: The Case of Sweden. open.substack.com/pub/petergra...

"Literacy and numeracy are essential, but so too is the ability to process trauma, build relationships, and develop resilience." world-education-blog.org/2025/03/03/e...

Williams says she wants all pupils to be able to make choices, to ask questions and have an opinion, and the oracy project empowers them to do that. “The statistics about the literacy levels of young offenders are real.” www.theguardian.com/education/20...

What a wonderful conversation about curriculum, compassion, curiosity and creativity. soundcloud.com/rethinking-e...

Tuesday 4 February 1-2pm GMT An #EdTech tragedy? Technology, crisis & future of education Ideas to help reorient the digital transformation of education, reflecting lessons learned during pandemic With @unesconow.bsky.social & EdTech Hub Join in Cambridge or online: edtechtragedy.eventbrite.co.uk

Could rewards and incentive systems make kids more self-centered? What if we spent more time teaching higher-level values? leadinggreatlearning.com/what-about-k...

Human-focused education: Advancing broader purposes of education through the science of learning www.brookings.edu/articles/hum...

"Often we are given some very precise steps at the start of our journey only to find that the stabilisers are taken off much too quickly and we are left with little idea of how we can go from a to b." teachreal.wordpress.com/2025/01/25/n...

"The purpose of education, then, is not just to produce skilled workers but to cultivate individuals grounded in integrity and humanity—individuals who can collaborate across divides and restore trust." www.diplomaticourier.com/posts/human-...

Delighted to have played a small part in supporting the amazing project that is tapeletters.com/scotland/. Charting the oral histories of 🇵🇰 migrant communities to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 post partition in 1947. The teaching resource I've developed will launch next week but u can read abt it 👇🏽 www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

I am proud to say that I have guest edited this special issue of APJRECE. The theme is East Meets West: A Comparative Investigation of Early Childhood. I hope you enjoy reading the articles! #edchat #education #earlyyears #EarlyChildhoodEducation pecerajournal.com

Why resilience won’t solve the mental health crisis among young people theconversation.com/why-resilien...

This is definitely a book that I’ll be taking a closer look at. #EduSky

There are many experts in how to deliver quality climate change education, we just need the government to embed climate across the curriculum & empower teachers to deliver #ClimateInEducation. Tick tock 🔥🌍⏰ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Please join me on 3 February, 1 p.m. CET!

What happens if you re- direct measurement of the quality of classroom instruction to student engagement? We are very excited about these findings!

Thank you for sharing with the world and looking forward to collaborating to fix these inequalities towards a truly just transition.

“this information ecosystem is toxic, and ... is seriously impacting our efforts to make the world a better place” publishingperspectives.com/2024/12/meli...

'Achieve and thrive: A research-based guide to pupil motivation and engagement’ schoolsweek.co.uk/the-knowledg...

A wonderful tribute to perhaps my favorite academic and someone from whom I learned so much: www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/ed-mag...

“The two aren’t mutually exclusive, we can’t look at wellbeing through one lens and academic performance through another” beewellprogramme.org/the-value-of...

What 10 years of education can do to combat disinformation. The Finland 🇫🇮 case! Education, literacy but also strong media and trustworthy politicians edition.cnn.com/interactive/...

📣 I am excited to co-edit a book w/ Fabrice Jaumont on embracing the imperfection of language learning. Do you have a story, a case study, a biography that challenges the paralyzing "gold standard" of achieving native-like fluency in an L2? For submission guidelines, visit calec.org/2024/11/28/b...

It's a curious thing that The Science of Learning has everything to say about memory management and nothing to say about motivation. It's implied that the purpose of learning in school is memorization for the test, not questioning at all whether learning for the test is even the best way to learn.

My reply to #MatthewJukes and #JulianneNorman's interesting blogpost #SEL #LMICs #GlobalSouth world-education-blog.org/2024/11/13/s... @nissem.bsky.social

"interventions like structured pedagogy programmes risk being just new forms of ineffective foreign power like the erstwhile learner-centred pedagogies of the last 30 years" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #literacy #globalsouth

🚨In this paper🚨 with Matthew Jukes, we examine when gender differences in socioemotional skills emerge and explore the socioeconomic/cultural determinants of these skills. We use Young Lives data with a comprehensive set of skill measures. Just out in the Journal of Dev Studies. OA: t.co/IwWq9mjura

📢 The GLACIER Network is excited to present our 2024 International Webinar Series ft. talks by Stephanie Allais, Gita Steiner-Khamsi, & Kwame Akyeampong on the theme: The Education Research-Policy Relationship in Global Perspective. 📆 More details forthcoming; save the dates! #GlasgowIntCompEd

Created a starter pack in Comparative and International Education go.bsky.app/QE2fRsn

aias.au.dk/events/show/... #ImmordinoYang #NISSEM

UNESCO convened the International Science and Evidence Based Education (ISEE) Assessment in 2019 w/ input from over "300 scientists and experts from 45 countries from diverse disciplines." They found that education systems are aligned toward human capital & credentialism, not human flourishing.

Some folks really need to be reminded that the purpose of school is not "learning" per se, it's human development. Experiences that contribute positively to the multiple & varied goals & needs of human development are never a distraction.

The 2025 UKFIET Conference, held in Oxford every two years, is looking for theme convenors. Conference Theme: Mobilising Knowledge, Partnerships, and Innovations for Sustainable Development through Education and Training Deadline: 30 September 2024 #EduSky www.ukfiet.org/2024/ukfiet-...

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #6,120,012!

Register for our upcoming Global Public Seminars in Comparative and International Education. These take place at 3pm UK time online. Registration links to each talk in the comments below

📢The Building Belonging Project 📢 So happy to share a big project that I’ve been working on for the last few years with my LSX teammates. The building belonging project features insights from world experts, as well as classroom resources. And we’re just getting started! youtu.be/t1suFA6BXvg?...

"Historical thinking requires historical knowledge." "[I]f the “big story” is left out or left blurry in classrooms... students’ appetite for narrative might plausibly be filled later in life by well-produced stories whose accountability to historical evidence is less scrupulous." 👆👆👆 👇👇👇

The NISSEM Global Briefs series is a vital reference for research & insights into social and emotional learning & SDG Target 4.7, particularly in textbooks. Today brought the contributors together for Vol.5, to examine ways to implement the 2023 Recommendation. Publishing in June 2025.

"The sense that the US might be losing the international education race has [galvanized] a renewed emphasis on standardized testing...Ironically, however, people in China widely perceive US education to be superior...in the rejection of exam-based education in favor of nourishing the whole person."

Dorothea Beale of Cheltenham Ladies College and founder member of the Association of Headmistresses, later @ascl-uk.bsky.social bowed to parental pressure and stopped the teaching of maths to her girls. Recognising its important she found other ways to teach it, particularly though geography.

We’ve known for a while that ‘brain training’ rarely leads to any transferable benefits in things beyond the trained task… but this new study takes it a step further and finds no neural (as well as behavioural) changes. ‘Brain training’ doesn’t even change the brain! www.nature.com/articles/s41...