Compensatory education
Educational programmes (like Head Start, Sure Start) designed to compensate for supposed 'cultural deprivation' by providing extra teaching, resources, and cultural enrichment to disadvantaged students.
Real World
The UK's Sure Start programme, launched in 1998, provided free nursery education and parenting support in deprived areas, but Ofsted later found its impact on narrowing the achievement gap was limited and inconsistent.
Exam Focus
Evaluate compensatory education by contrasting cultural deprivation assumptions with Keddie's critique that the problem is schools, not families.
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