educational equality
Same learning opportunities
Educational equality is the principle that all people should have the same access to quality education regardless of race, gender, income, or background.
The term appears in policy debates about school funding, admissions, and resource allocation: The district's new boundaries were designed to promote educational equality.
Distinguished from educational equity, which emphasizes giving different students what they individually need to succeed.
- achievement gapEducational performance inequality
- level playing fieldEqual competitive conditions
- affirmative actionPrograms boosting marginalized representation
- civil rightsGuaranteed individual legal protections
- school infrastructureBuildings and systems for learning
desegregation · inclusion · universal design · social mobility · graduation rates · anti-discrimination laws · Title IX · teacher quality · free lunch program · head start · federal mandates · cultural competence · school funding · diversity · literacy rates · college readiness · standardized testing · accessibility
- coed schoolsboys and girls, mixed schools, coed schools, coed dorms, school integration
- civil rightsCivil Rights Act, right to life, Voting Rights Act, civil liberties, desegregation
- special educationspecial ed, special needs, IEP, IEPs, learning disabilities
- worker educationtrade schools, vocational training, apprenticeships, technical schools, job skills
educational equalityeducational inequality
Uneven access to learning
school segregation · educational barriers · restricted access · digital divide · underfunding
educational equalitytracking systems
Tools that follow movement
elite schooling · underfunded schools · systemic bias · school-to-prison pipeline · legacy admissions
educational equalityelitism
Preference for privileged rule
social Darwinism · exclusivity · elite education · credentialism · selectivity
education, educational, educate, educated, educating, educator, educators, educates, uneducated