Explore the evidence
3 of 88 decisions · clear everything
Survives the gold standardIndependent, durable, rigorousThe debunked shelfCheap winsFor parents at homeFamous numbers, deflatedWhere we admit ignoranceThe terrain
domain
- math6
- reading6
- writing6
- science4
- assessment3
- debunked3
- foreign language3
- history civics3
- practice3
- grouping2
- health2
- homeschool2
- instruction style2
- motor skills2
- arts1
- class size1
- computer science1
- curriculum1
- early childhood1
- edtech1
- feedback1
- homework1
- mastery1
- music1
- practical1
- retention1
- school structure1
- teachers1
- time1
- transfer1
- tutoring1
verdict
layer
survival prior
Your situation · from the applicability layer — absence means “not yet assessed,” never “doesn’t apply”
who's delivering
group / setting
outcome class
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: lowSchool spending, charters, and what school-level choices actually move outcomes · school-structure · ages 4–18 · structure
Life-skills courses reliably teach the content and rarely change the conduct; behaviour moves only where instruction sits close in time to the decision, and driver education is worse than nothing.
mixedconf: mediumgc: low11/1148/48
Do life-skills courses — money, cooking, driving, health — change what students actually do? · practical · ages 6–18
Near-zero in primary and almost entirely correlational in secondary. The causal base is three small trials; what the homework IS beats how much of it there is.
mixedconf: mediumgc: medium16/1629/48
Homework — effects by age and by dosage · homework · ages 5–18 · structure
The URL is the state — any view you build here is a permalink you can hand to someone mid-argument.