ABSTRACT
Having used the first few chapters to illustrate the strengths and limitations of the evidence available on overcoming disadvantage in education, the book moves on to substantive areas. Each substantive chapter has in its introduction a reminder of the sources of evidence used and a few key references where readers can find further results, and more about methods of data collection and analysis. This book is mostly about interventions and possible interventions that could improve educational outcomes for the most disadvantaged families in any society. State-provided compulsory school for children and young adults is itself, of course, such an intervention. Yet, we really know very little about what good it does.
