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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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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.
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Homework — effects by age and by dosage · homework · ages 5–18 · structure
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- Chronic absenteeism — does raising attendance raise achievement?
- Class-size reduction
- Curriculum choice as a school-level lever
- 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
- Length of the school day and year, time-on-task, extended time, and summer
- Breakfast, school meals, and micronutrients — what feeding children actually buys
- 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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