Title: Equity Definition
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Content: For these and other reasons, “equity pedagogy”—i.e., consciously teaching with equity as a primary goal—is sometimes called “teaching for social justice,” since the object of the equity-based strategies both begins with and extends beyond the specific students in a specific class. Reforms intended to increase educational equity are, quite simply, far too numerous to usefully summarize here. In fact, a significant percentage of the concepts, terms, and strategies discussed in this resource are directly or peripherally related to issues of educational equity. For this reason, we encourage you to explore other entries for more detailed discussions. Debate
Increasing fairness in education has long been—and perhaps always will be—marked by disputes and controversy. While the relevant debates are both numerous and nuanced, many of them center on divergent interpretations of fairness and equality. For example, a school might choose to allocate resources—funding, teachers, staff time, etc.—equally among all students. In this hypothetical case, white, wealthy, and high-performing students would receive the same amount of school resources as minority, low-income, and special-needs students. On the other hand, another school might choose to allocate resources in way