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A perfect follow up to our further paper published yesterday showing that a match between the ethnicity of teachers and students can affect student treatment and experience at school. However, the picture is not a simple one. doi.org/10.71002/res.v…

As an ethnic minority myself and co-author of this paper, I have experienced racism (being called all kinds of names), but when our teachers are doing well is handling discrimination by race, we should acknowledge it.

📢The nominees for the 2024 Review of Education Editors' Choice Award have been chosen! Congrats to all authors! The winner will be announced very soon. ✨doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3… ✨doi.org/10.1002/rev3.7… ✨doi.org/10.1002/rev3.7… ✨doi.org/10.1002/rev3.3… #AcWri

We’re opening free breakfast clubs in all primary schools to boost parents' work choices and children's life chances. 750 schools are becoming the first to offer the clubs, set to save parents £450 a year. Find out where to find the early adopter schools ⬇️🥣

New paper - open access. One way to encourage recruitment and retention of minority ethnic staff in schools in England is to have a better mix of existing ethnic groups between schools. In terms of pupils, staff and leadership. Beng Huat See Nadia doi.org/10.71002/res.v…

Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who

Open access paper. Are ethnic minority students treated differently by teachers of the same ethnicity in England? Nadia Beng Huat See doi.org/10.71002/res...

Why ethnic minority teachers leave teaching? Our survey of 4000 teachers shows that the ethnic mix of leaders, staff and students matters are important reasons. doi.org/10.71002/res.v… Economic and Social Research Council Education Research at Birmingham

New open access paper in BERJ. The advantages, and some disadvantages, of going to school in India and Pakistan. What do governments need to do? bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/be…

New free open access paper. How the range of education research expertise has narrowed over 20 years in UK. So-called mixed methods appears to be dying. Most people only know how to do so-called qualitative work. What a shame. bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/be…

💡 Interesting insights from Stephen Gorard et al Evidence Centre for Education BERA Race, Ethnicity and Education Network Paper contributing to ongoing debates about the quality and usefulness of education research over last twenty years… Also, scale/range of EEF studies over time pre/post #covid Link in roundup

🧵Over 200 academics have written to funders UK Research and Innovation and ministers to express concern about plans for the next REF - an exercise which distributes £2 billion of research funds pa to universities. The plans pose serious risks to HE London Universities' Council for Academic Freedom thetimes.com/uk/education/a…

Delighted, and more than a little surprised, that "Embedded formative assessment" has been translated into Korean: 당신이 모르던 형성평가 이야기

Announcing -- Opening Night: Renowned stusent assessment researcher Dylan Wiliam to speak on "Why I'm in researchED" Join Us on Friday June 6 for @researchEdCan Toronto at TEMC, beginning at 6 pm Over to researchED Tom Bennett OBE researchED US Education Ontario Ontario Principals' Council #cdned

A "megastudy" (140k teachers, ~3m students) found that, compared with "reminder-only" emails, weekly nudges to teachers to log into @Zearned's platform to check student progress produced small but meaningful— and sustained—improvement: bit.ly/3HbEpCW

Just realized that the text of my second inaugural lecture (at the Institute of Education, 2007)—Assessment for Learning: Why, what and how—is no longer being sold by UCL Press, so the copyright reverts to me, and I can make it open access, so here it is: bit.ly/AfLWWH.

A review of studies of professional development in math and science finds a 1 sd increase in teacher knowledge is associated with a non-significant increase of 0.08sd in student achievement, though a 1 sd increase in instruction quality has 3x the effect: bit.ly/4kDfyHg

We are so proud of Xiaofan Zhou who has expertly and successfully defended her thesis this morning - on a very complex topic on metacognition in learning Eng as a second language.

Stephen Gorard Dr Aimee Calum Davey Absolutely. In my view, too many academic staff describe themselves as "qualitative researchers" rather than being researchers who decide the research questions first, and then figure out what methods are appropriate.

Our new paper looking at the challenges and trends in teaching supply in China. International Journal of Educational Studies. doi.org/10.53935/26415…