[3] Poor children score between 6 and 13 points lower on various standardized tests of IQ, verbal ability, and achievement.
[4] Poverty also has a negative impact on high-school graduation[5] and college attendance.
[7] Numerous programs have been created in order to help children at risk reach their full potential.
Among the American programs of compensary education are Head Start, the Chicago Child-Parent Center Program, High/Scope, Abecedarian Early Intervention Project, SMART (Start Making a Reader Today), the Milwaukee Project and the 21st Century Community Learning Center.
In Germany and Great Britain Early Excellence Centres are widely discussed programs of compensatory education.