Turns out, how you ban phones matters - a lot. A new master's student thesis from SSE shows big differences in how school smartphone rules affect students focus, friendships and sense of safety.

Yesterday at Skolriksdagen 2025, Ema Demir and Stefan Arora-Jonsson from the House of Governance and Public Policy (GaPP) at the Stockholm School of Economics presented new research on how to improve academic outcomes in schools with persistently low performance.

Researchers from the Stockholm School of Economics and Jönköping University are investigating the factors shaping school principals' managerial discretion in Sweden’s primary education system.

Research on school improvement shows multiple factors aid turnarounds at underperforming schools. Using qualitative comparative analysis of 77 Swedish schools over 12 years, no single solution was found. Instead, different factor combinations work, depending on the local context. This has implications for school improvement research and education policy.