How to Achieve Educational Equity
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What is Educational Equity?Educational equity should be defined as creating and/or eliminating policies, systems, and practices in schools that impact the experiences, outcomes, and access to resources for students from previously excluded groups. Allow me to expound. Educational equity is more than an image. It is more than being able to watch a baseball game while standing on boxes. Framing it as such, oversimplifies the complexities associated with educational equity. By taking a closer look at the equity image, you will see that equity is simply being presented as giving to those in need, often described as the less fortunate. While philanthropy is certainly admirable, if one does not reflect on their own personal bias, they could be making some assumptions about the people they want to help. This simply reinforces contributing factors as to why the inequity exists. In the case of the equity image, the less fortunate title has been assigned to students of color. By providing these students with something they need such as a box, you are in theory; providing an opportunity for kids to see the game who otherwise would not have the ability to watch it. One of the many problems with this illustration is that it reinforces deficit model thinking. It suggests there is something we must address related to the kids, not the ecosystem they are attempting to function in. Clearly a barrier, the fence is obstructing the students vision. Even after a box or two has been provided as a corrective measure, the barrier remains untouched. In one of the more recent iterations of the equity image, the fence has been removed. In my opinion, while this signifies progress; it still does not show equity taking place. The students are still observers, not participants, and they are no closer to the game than they were before the fence was removed.In education, we tend not to eliminate existing barriers within our ecosystem such as policies, systems,
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