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Survives the gold standardIndependent, durable, rigorousThe debunked shelfCheap winsFor parents at homeFamous numbers, deflatedWhere we admit ignoranceThe terrain
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survival prior
Your situation · from the applicability layer — absence means “not yet assessed,” never “doesn’t apply”
Testing yourself beats rereading — robust in real classrooms; honest durable size ~0.1–0.3 SD, biggest after delay, thinnest on transfer.
strong supportconf: highgc: low10/1018/48connected:Feedback and formative assessmentMastery learning (teach → test → rSpaced (distributed) practice
Retrieval practice (the testing effect) · practice · ages 8–18 · method
No study of homeschooling has a counterfactual — the famous percentile claims are selection all the way down. The honest answer: nobody knows.
insufficientconf: lowgc: high23/2336/48connected:Homeschool socialisationThe parent as instructorSystematic/explicit phonics vs whoMath-fact fluency and timed practi
Does homeschooling raise achievement and attainment, or does it select the children who would have done well anyway? · homeschool · ages 5–18 · structure
Not yet assessed for this question · 19
- Chronic absenteeism — does raising attendance raise achievement?
- Class-size reduction
- Curriculum choice as a school-level lever
- Physical activity as an input — dose, fitness, and school outcomes
- Explicit instruction vs discovery/inquiry — how much guidance?
- Feedback and formative assessment
- Grade retention — holding a child back versus promoting, and test-based promotion policies
- The early home environment — what parents can and cannot causally move
- Homeschool socialisation — the most-asked question, and the least answerable one
- Length of the school day and year, time-on-task, extended time, and summer
- Interleaving (mixing problem types vs blocking)
- Breakfast, school meals, and micronutrients — what feeding children actually buys
- Placement and mastery diagnosis — deciding what to teach next from evidence of current skill
- Preschool at scale — Head Start, state pre-K, and what universal provision delivers
- Perry Preschool and Abecedarian — what the famous studies actually establish
- School starting age, relative age, and academic redshirting
- Do later school start times increase adolescent sleep, and does that raise achievement?
- Teacher quality — selection over credentials and workshops
- Vision — outdoor time against myopia, and screening and correction for achievement
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