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Evidence-based education is the use of well designed scientific studies to determine which education methods work best. It consists of evidence-based teaching and evidence-based learning. Evidence-based learning methods such as spaced repetition can increase rate of learning. The evidence-based education movement has its roots in the larger movement towards evidence-based-practices. Edit Summary: Evidence-based-practices are ways of educating individuals through methods that have been researched and proven to effectively/successfully work through students positive academic performance.

The purpose of education in a given time and place affects who is taught, what is taught, and how the education system behaves. For example, in the 21st century, many countries treat education as a positional good. In this competitive approach, people want their own students to get a better education than other students. This approach can [[lead to unfair treatment of some students, especially those from disadvantaged or marginalized groups. For example, in this system, a city's school system may draw school district boundaries so that nearly all the students in one school are from low-income families, and that nearly all the students in the neighboring schools come from more affluent families, even though concentrating low-income students in one school results in worse educational achievement for the entire school system. Students who live in different parts of the city may experience being segregated by not only income but educational opportunties and achievement due to not having access to the schools with better education.

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Owens, A. (2017). Income segregation between school districts and inequality in students’ achievement. Sociology of Education, 91(1), 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038040717741180

Pittman, L. (2012, November 3). What are evidence-based practices? Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from https://my.vanderbilt.edu/spedteacherresources/what-are-evidence-based-practices/