2023-09-23 09:45:06
What can an individual school do to combat the growing educational inequality in Germany? If there were no expectation that schools were actually capable of doing this, the BMBF would not spend two billion euros annually on schools in socially difficult situations with its “Starting Opportunities” program planned for the coming school year.
But is the expectation that a single school somewhere in a “problem area” of a major German city can compensate for the poor starting conditions of its students?
As expected, school research disagrees about the answer to this question. The research journal The German School dedicates her current issue to this disagreement. It says that school development research has, in its empirical studies of successful schools in socially disadvantaged locations, produced entire “catalogs of measures” about what such schools can do better. But this research could not prove whether these characteristics are actually the causes of the good educational results of students in these schools in particular.
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