How can school systems do better for disadvantaged students?

Stephen Gorard; Nadia Siddiqui; Beng Huat See; Nada El-Soufi; Binwei Lu

doi:10.4324/9781003455066-10

How can school systems do better for disadvantaged students?

Stephen Gorard, Nadia Siddiqui, Beng Huat See, Nada El-Soufi, Binwei Lu

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Abstract

Governments and education systems worldwide have tried using additional cash transfers to encourage school enrolment and attendance and to reduce the attainment gap between disadvantaged students and their peers. There are now many strands of evidence on the success of such schemes. This chapter presents the results of international structured reviews of the existing evidence, coupled with a summary of the new findings from a 14-year evaluation of the impact of the Pupil Premium funding policy in England. This overview suggests that payments to improve attendance are best given to individuals rather than schools, conditional on attendance or progression. The attainment gap between socioeconomically disadvantaged pupils and the rest is strongly linked to the level of clustering (or segregation) of poorer students between schools. Such social segregation can be reduced by offering schools funding to take disadvantaged students, and segregation has declined substantially following such a scheme in England after 2010. This decline is linked to an uneven decline in the attainment gap. The chapter concludes with suggestions for policy and practice on how to improve the situation further.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	An International Approach to Developing Early Career Researchers
Subtitle of host publication	A Pipeline to Robust Education Research
Editors	Stephen Gorard, Nadia Siddiqui
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	7
Pages	77-86
Number of pages	10
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9781003455066, 9781040027516
ISBN (Print)	9781032592800, 9781032595207
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003455066-10
Publication status	Published - 14 May 2024

Publication series

Name	Routledge Research in Higher Education
Publisher	Routledge

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 selection and editorial matter, Stephen Gorard and Nadia Siddiqui; individual chapters, the contributors.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Social Sciences
General Psychology

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Gorard, S., Siddiqui, N., See, B. H., El-Soufi, N., & Lu, B. (2024). How can school systems do better for disadvantaged students? In S. Gorard, & N. Siddiqui (Eds.), An International Approach to Developing Early Career Researchers: A Pipeline to Robust Education Research (1st ed., pp. 77-86). (Routledge Research in Higher Education). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003455066-10

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Gorard, S, Siddiqui, N, See, BH, El-Soufi, N & Lu, B 2024, How can school systems do better for disadvantaged students? in S Gorard & N Siddiqui (eds), An International Approach to Developing Early Career Researchers: A Pipeline to Robust Education Research. 1st edn, Routledge Research in Higher Education, Routledge, pp. 77-86. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003455066-10

How can school systems do better for disadvantaged students? / Gorard, Stephen; Siddiqui, Nadia; See, Beng Huat et al.
An International Approach to Developing Early Career Researchers: A Pipeline to Robust Education Research. ed. / Stephen Gorard; Nadia Siddiqui. 1st. ed. Routledge, 2024. p. 77-86 (Routledge Research in Higher Education).