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No study of homeschooling has a counterfactual — the famous percentile claims are selection all the way down. The honest answer: nobody knows.
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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 · 11
- Class-size reduction
- Physical activity as an input — dose, fitness, and school outcomes
- Explicit instruction vs discovery/inquiry — how much guidance?
- Grade retention — holding a child back versus promoting, and test-based promotion policies
- Vision — outdoor time against myopia, and screening and correction for achievement
- 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
- Preschool at scale — Head Start, state pre-K, and what universal provision delivers
- Perry Preschool and Abecedarian — what the famous studies actually establish
- School spending, charters, and what school-level choices actually move outcomes
- School starting age, relative age, and academic redshirting
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