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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):

Why Hasn’t Tutoring Been More Effective? is from Ed Week.

“We find improvements in students’ grit and interpersonal self-management when matched to teachers of their race and gender. Black female students drive these effects. We also find that matching reduces absences and suspensions, especially for Black students.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1…

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— Paul Bruno (@paul-bruno.com) November 26, 2025 at 7:41 AM

Examining the One Laptop Per Child program in Peruvian rural primary schools finds no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative ones on grade progression, from Cueto, Beuermann, Cristia, Malamud, and Pardo www.nber.org/papers/w34495

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— NBER (@nber.org) November 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM

Turns out that holding kids back if they can’t read by 3rd grade is good for temporary test score increases but terrible for the adults the kids become www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=…

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— Jennifer Berkshire (@jenniferberkshire.bsky.social) November 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM

How personalized algorithms trick your brain into wrong answers is from Science Daily. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Understanding “Personalized Learning”