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Survives the gold standard Independent, durable, rigorous The debunked shelf Cheap wins For parents at home Famous numbers, deflated Where we admit ignorance The terrain

evidenceall drop D A–B A only

evaluatorany no dev-led independent

durabilityany follow-up ≥1yr ≥2yr

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Grit is conscientiousness renamed and adds 0.4% to grade prediction; self-control genuinely predicts life outcomes but is 60% heritable with zero shared environment, and training moves ratings, not lives.

mixedconf: highgc: medium

20/2036/48connected:Should a school buy a social and e Does teaching a growth mindset rai How should a school run its classr

Are self-control and grit teachable levers on achievement? · character · ages 4–18

Growth-mindset interventions change beliefs almost everywhere and change achievement almost nowhere: the two independent national-scale trials measured standardized tests and found exactly zero.

mixedconf: highgc: low

18/1829/48connected:Fadeout Systematic/explicit phonics vs who Talent and trainability Are self-control and grit teachabl

Does teaching a growth mindset raise achievement? · character · ages 4–18

Unallocated money is the worst buy in the database; the same dollars as No-Excuses charters buy +0.3–0.4 SD/yr — and the average charter is a precise null.

mixedconf: highgc: low

8/839/48connected:Tutoring Background knowledge and vocabular Teacher quality Math curriculum choice

School spending, charters, and what school-level choices actually move outcomes · school-structure · ages 4–18 · structure

SEL programmes move the ratings they are evaluated on far more than the attainment they are sold on: the famous +0.27 is now 0.10, and no large independent trial has reproduced it on an externally marked test.

mixedconf: highgc: low

19/1948/48connected:Are self-control and grit teachabl How should a school run its classr

Should a school buy a social and emotional learning programme? · character · ages 4–18

Executive function trains like a task, not like a capacity: gains are real, narrow, and gone at follow-up, EF curricula are null under independent trial, and the latent construct is ~100% heritable.

no effectconf: highgc: low

21/2148/48connected:Does working-memory or brain train How should a school run its classr Fadeout Talent and trainability

Can executive function be trained, and does it transfer to learning? · character · ages 4–18

What parents are asked to DO is the whole effect: tutoring a skill d≈1.15, listening to reading 0.51, reading aloud ~0.18 — same parent, same child. All deflate under better designs.

mixedconf: mediumgc: medium

33/3336/48connected:Homeschool socialisation Does homeschooling raise achieveme The early home environment Tutoring

The parent as instructor — what survives when the person teaching is the person who raised the child · homeschool · ages 4–18 · 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: high

23/2336/48connected:Homeschool socialisation The parent as instructor Systematic/explicit phonics vs who Math-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

Homeschoolers get plenty of social contact but measurably fewer, closer peer ties; whether that helps or harms has never been causally tested.

insufficientconf: lowgc: high

23/2324/48connected:Does homeschooling raise achieveme The parent as instructor

Homeschool socialisation — the most-asked question, and the least answerable one · homeschool · ages 6–18 · structure

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