Marketisation - Compensatory education

Question 1

What is compensatory education?

Answer 1

n is additional educational provision for the culturally deprived to give them a helping hand to compete on equal terms. It began in the 1960’s with extra resources allocated to low income areas

Question 2

Compensatory education to improve lower class education 
 E.g

Answer 2

 Education action Zones set up in 1998. These have since been steadily replaced by Excellence in Cities (EiC). These programmes directed resources to low-income, inner city areas in an attempt to raise educational attainment.

 Sure Start – Free nursery places for 12 hours a week targeted mainly at lower income areas

 Educational Maintenance Allowance -

Question 3

Compensatory education and gender

Answer 3

 Boys into reading scheme – involved famous people such as Garry Linekar telling boys how cool reading was

 Girls into Science (GIST) – For example - employing more female science teachers to encourage girls to take up science subjects

 Scrapping coursework to more exam based A levels as coursework only reflects the skills of the girls due to their bedroom culture

Question 4

Compensatory education and ethnicity

Answer 4

 Aiming High – in 2003 the government provided more resources to 30 schools in which African Caribbean pupils were achieving below average

 Multi-cultural education – involves having assemblies and lessons focussing on educating the whole school about different cultures in the United Kingdom

 Employing more black teachers – some schools employ more black teachers to provide positive role models for young black boys

 Anti-racist education – educating teachers to prevent stereotyping of ethnic minority pupils

Question 5

Criticisms of Compensatory education

Keyword - blame

Answer 5

Critics have argued that by placing the blame on the child and their background, it diverts attention from the deficiencies of the educational system.

Question 6

Criticisms of Compensatory education

Keyword - redistribution

Answer 6

e limited success in raising achievement because they involve quite a modest redistribution of resources to poor areas.
They are unlikely to do much for the inequalities in the wider society = which lead to poor achievement