Title: Equality vs. Equity | Providing Student Resources | King Online
Headings: Equality vs. Equity: A Crucial Difference in Pedagogy
Equality vs. Equity: A Crucial Difference in Pedagogy
Equality vs. Equity: A Matter of Enough
Cases of Student Inequity
Bridging the Gap
Make an Impact in Your Local School System

Content: A Matter of Enough
Equity and equality are important for student success in different ways. Equality denotes how people are treated, such as providing students an equal amount of respect or an equal amount of instruction. But equity, on the other hand, is about giving each students the tools he or she specifically needs to thrive. Some students need additional individual attention from educators in order to fully understand a concept, and even more broadly, many students have different learning styles. Some students prefer learning by voice (audio) while others are more visual learners. Others are tactile learners, preferring a hands-on approach. And outside of the learning environment, some schools fail to provide equitable education to their students because of a student’s socioeconomic situation, or how the student’s home life is. Cases of Student Inequity
Decades of research have found that the first five years of a child’s life are crucial for brain development. Children who begin learning at a young age, whether from parents reading to them, learning alphabet letters or how to identify zoo animals, have a head start compared to students who weren’t afforded that privilege growing up. For example, we can look at a case of two five-year old children.