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The educator concludes that the educational programs teaching parents to be their child's "first teacher" are successful and should be expanded. He supports this by pointing out that children in these programs perform better than average in school.

The educator assumes that the educational program directly causes the better school performance, without considering other possible reasons for it, like the natural abilities of the children or parents, or parental involvement outside the program.

He also assumes that better than average school performance is the primary marker of the program’s successfulness, without considering any other outcomes or effects among the children in the program.

The school performance of children in the program is better than average, whether they enjoy the program or not, and (A) doesn’t account for this difference. So (A) doesn’t weaken the conclusion that the program is successful and should therefore be expanded.

This weakens the conclusion by showing that one of the educator’s assumptions is false. He assumes that the program itself causes the children’s good performance, but (B) explains that their performance could actually be due to most of the parents having experience as educators.

The school performance of children in the program is better than average, whether parents approve of the program or not, and (C) doesn’t account for this difference. So (C) doesn’t weaken the conclusion that the program is successful and should therefore be expanded.

First, we don’t know that this means that the program will be expensive. Perhaps the cost hasn’t been determined but it will be quite low. But either way, (D) doesn’t account for the children’s school performance and thus doesn’t weaken the conclusion.

Just because some children who didn’t participate in the program performed well in school doesn’t mean that the program is unsuccessful. The children in the program still performed better than average. So (E) doesn’t weaken the educator’s conclusion.

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