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Remedial education for primary-school children: a useful measure for immigrant pupils?
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1Early school leaving is one of the main problems in education in Spain, and it has a greater impact among students from disadvantaged groups (with the rate rising to 35.7% for immigrants versus 14.7% for native pupils in 2019).
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2Remedial education programmes aim to improve the results of students originating from disadvantaged backgrounds and whose academic performance is poor: the schools that run them have higher numbers of pupils who are repeaters and of immigrants, lower education levels among parents, and low socioeconomic levels among families.
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3Remedial education programmes run at primary schools in Madrid are only beneficial for immigrant pupils if the total proportion of immigrants in the participating groups is not very high.
