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Teaching movement teaches movement: the skills improve, but transfer to cognition, achievement, or lifelong activity is near zero in the best trials.
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Does teaching movement transfer to cognition, achievement, or lifelong activity? · physical-development · ages 4–18
No. The two randomised programmes that tested it — 42 Houston schools and five EEF trials across 400 English schools — return nulls on reading and maths; only writing, the outcome nearest the treatment, moves.
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Does arts education raise academic achievement? · arts · ages 5–14
Nobody has tested it. There is no controlled trial in which art instruction is the input and independently measured art skill is the outcome — the field's core claim is the one it never studied.
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Does teaching visual art produce artistic skill? · arts · ages 4–18
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