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Educational disadvantage has been high on the societal and political agenda for many years now. Various interventions have been designed and implemented. Despite the investment of huge budgets, the effects of all of these efforts are disappointing. The disadvantage gap has failed to improve; on the contrary, the gap has even widened. Educational disadvantage has been associated with determinators such as social class, ethnic background, and sex. However, more disadvantaged categories can be discerned and often such groupings coincide; for instance, immigrant children regularly come from low socioeconomic backgrounds, speak a foreign language, and adhere to a non-Christian religion. Disadvantage may therefore be cumulative.