Compensatory education offers supplementary programs or services designed to help children at risk of cognitive impairment and low educational achievement succeed.
Children at risk of disadvantages
Poor children do worse in school than their well-off peers. They are more likely to experience learning
disabilities and developmental delays. Poor children score between 6 and 13 points lower on various standardized tests of IQ, verbal ability, and achievement. Poverty also has a negative impact on high-school graduation and college attendance.
Children raised by a single parent, children who have more than two siblings, children by
teenaged parents and children raised in poverty-stricken neighbourhoods are also at risk of low academic achievement.
How to help these children
Numerous programs have been created in order to help children at risk reach their full potential. Among the American programs of compensary education are
Head Start, the Chicago Child-Parent Center Program,
High/Scope,
Abecedarian Early Intervention Project
The Carolina Abecedarian Project was a controlled experiment that was conducted in 1972 in North Carolina, United States, by the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute to study the potential benefits of early childhood education for poo ...
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SMART (Start Making a Reader Today), the
Milwaukee Project and the
21st Century Community Learning Center
The 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) initiative is the only federal funding source dedicated exclusively to afterschool programs. The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) reauthorized 21st CCLC in 2002, transferring the administratio ...
. In Germany and Great Britain Early Excellence Centres are widely discussed programs of compensatory education. Not all of that programs have been proven to be effective. However scientists were able to identify social programmes that work. Among these are the
High/Scope Perry Preschool Project, the Abecedarian Project, and SMART.
See also
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Poverty in the United States
In the United States, poverty has both social and political implications. In 2020, there were 37.2 million people in poverty. Some of the many causes include income inequality, inflation, unemployment, debt traps and poor education.Western, B ...
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Poverty in the United Kingdom
Poverty in the United Kingdom refers to the portion of the population of the United Kingdom that are considered to be in poverty under some measures of poverty.
Data based on incomes published in 2016 by the Department for Work and Pensions (D ...
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Remedial education
Remedial education (also known as developmental education, basic skills education, compensatory education, preparatory education, and academic upgrading) is assigned to assist students in order to achieve expected competencies in core academic ski ...
References
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External links
Social Programs that WorkPoverty and Early childhood Intervention*
ttp://www.ericdigests.org/1993/urban.htm Helping Young Urban Parents Educate Themselves and Their Children. ERIC/CUE Digest, Number 85Early excellence centres
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