Title: What is Equity? - NAME Learn
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What is Equity?
Content: Equity -- the foundation for multicultural learning -- would mean ensuring that every student has access to the curriculum, assessment, pedagogy, and challenge he or she needs based on the recognition and response to individual differences and the sociopolitical context of teaching and learning. Multicultural learning in the classroom becomes an interplay between students and teachers, and among students themselves, in order to enable students to access, engage, and attain the desired student outcomes: Positive Academic Identities
Positive Social Identities
Respectful Engagement with Diverse People
Social Justice Consciousness; and
Social Justice Action
Figure 1 also illustrates how each student comes with different prior experiences, cultural resources, capacities, interests, and so forth for engaging opportunities and attaining student outcomes. If everyone has the same or equal opportunities, he or she is not fully tapping into the interplays possible within the classroom community. If students, however, are individually given the educational assets or rights that allow them to successfully tap into these opportunities, all students are better positioned to succeed. By rethinking these engagements through an equity lens, schools can then build student capacities for success and redefine what is fair in education. Equality
Equality assumes that everyone has equal opportunities to learn and everyone learns equally the same way. Equality also assumes that everyone should receive the same treatment and access to resources. Consequently, pursuing equality in education, educators and policymakers may advocate for the even distribution of existing resources to all students with no exceptions or additional considerations.