Making Schools Better for Disadvantaged Students: The International Implications of Evidence on Effective School Funding

*2023 BERA Educational Research Book of the Year*

Around the world, governments, charities, and other bodies are concerned with improving education, especially for the lowest-attaining and most disadvantaged students. Making Schools Better for Disadvantaged Students presents detailed research into how poverty affects student segregation and underachievement in schools. It contains the first ever large-scale evaluation of how funding can best be used to lower the poverty attainment gap for di...