E quity has become a familiar term on American college campuses in recent years, as well as a flash point in the nation’s culture wars. Centers for teaching and learning embrace it, as do institutes ...

The words equality and equity often get used interchangeably, but they have quite different meanings. Equality is an objective term — it means just what it implies and there is little room for debate.

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Jamie Wallace and Elaine V. Howes are co-editors of the book Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Science Teaching: Teacher Research and Investigation from Today’s Classrooms: The terms “equity” and ...

The Office of Equity and Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts states on its website that “UMass Amherst has a long-standing commitment to social progress and social justice. We value diversity ...

Born in South Orange, New Jersey, in the early 1980s, Sarasota-based talent agent and attorney Nurisha A. Harvey grew up in a community with few Black families. However, thanks to her civil ...

Equity-based education, also referred to as educational equity or equity in education, has been implemented in schools across the country to give each student the opportunity to succeed, but critics ...

In George Orwell’s allegorical novel Animal Farm, the animals conspire to take control of their farm from the uncaring humans. In the process, they attempt to avoid the typical horrible behavior of ...

Loyal Johnson writes (6/12/23) that “Equity means that outcomes are legislated to be equal,” and proceeds to attack that definition. Except that is not what equity means; he made that up. First, the ...

To Kevin Tice, whose letter dismissing the concept of equity vs. equality argues that failing to treat every individual the same at all times equates in unacceptable discrimination, regardless of the ...

Re “Equality must trump ‘equity’” (Feb. 5): I recommend that Mr. Boddie add America’s universities to those calling the shots on reordering society. They are the source of the ideas that prop up this ...