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distribution of funding, technology, facilities, services, and equal
education opportunities for both male and female students; including
students with disabilities, students with limited proficiency in
English, and students in high-poverty schools." (Education Week on
the Web glossary) "...During the 1970s and 1980s, many state courts
found great disparities in base per pupil spending between high and
low property-wealth districts. They mandated that these funding
disparities be eradicated. In placing districts on a level playing
field, the courts often invoked equal protection clauses in state
constitutions." (EdSource Online glossary)
The Draft Master Plan states "We have sought to ensure equity
within California's education system through recommendations that
distribute the resources and opportunities necessary to provide a
high quality education to every student, irrespective of his or her
circumstances."
- A Call for Equity: Examines many facets in schools (Summary, links to more; Equity Center, Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory)
- Key Components of Educational Equity: Access, instruction, materials, attitudes, interactions, language and assessment; strategies to help overcome barriers (Equity Center, North Central Regional Education Laboratory)
- Handbook Summary; see link to index for more (Equity Center, Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory)
- Dispelling the
Myth: Project to identify high-poverty and high-minority
schools with high student performance or substantial improvement
in achievement; link to California report.
Fill in your own criteria
to find high poverty, high minority schools in California or elsewhere
that are doing well (The Education Trust)
- Equal Resources, Equal Outcomes? Study suggests schools serving poor students are shortchanged (Public Policy Institute of California)
- Thinking
Carefully about Equity and Accountability: Accountability
systems may have unintended effects on low-income and minority
students (link from Education Commission of the States)
- Indicators
of Inequality in School Readiness: Children start kindergarten
with different levels of reading and math skills, often related to
gender, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and age (77 page PDF
report from Educational Testing Service)
- Statement
on education for homeless children and youth (California
Department of Education)
- Individuals with
Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) (National PTA: overview
with positions of PTA and others)
- Inclusion:
The concept of "full inclusion" calls for teaching students with
disabilities in regular classrooms (Education Week On the Web)
- Bilingual
ESL (Education Commission of the States)
- Gender
Equity (Education Week overview)
- Teaching Tolerance
(Burton's Cyberspace Bookmarks)
- The
New Divides: There are many digital divides - girls/boys,
high/low achievement, urban/rural, special needs and language
barriers (Education Week On the Web)
- Technology Access and Use: Strategy Checklists for increasing equity (Northwest Educational Technology Consortium)
- Ensuring Equitable Use of Education Technology (North Central Regional Education Laboratory)
- College
Access (Education Week On the Web)
- Outreach:
Targeting students to increase readiness for postsecondary
education (Education Commission of the States)
- Equity
2000: Changing minority students' college expectations can
increase success in high school math and may increase postsecondary
opportunities (Education Commission of the States)
- Can We Achieve Equity When Generation Y Goes to College? (112 page PDF file; Educational Testing Service)
- Disparities Continue: Degree completion for women and minorities (American Council on Education)
- TRIO Collects and disseminates information about access to higher education for low income, first-generation college students and students with disabilities (Adjunct ERIC clearinghouse)
- ERIC EC Disabilities and Gifted Education (ERIC Clearinghouse)
- Urban Education Web Covers areas including urban and minority families, student services and youth development; urban teachers; equity and cultural diversity; community involvement; school reform (ERIC Clearinghouse)
Related Issues:
Equity is related to many of the topics in the Master Plan; the links below lead to pages on this site that give more information in selected areas.
See also the Working Group reports, such as:
- Emerging Modes
- Section 1: See Equity and Access and the related recommendations
- Section 6: See Equity and Access and the related recommendations
- Finance and Facilities K-12
- Section 1: Adequacy in School Finance [an alternative to equity
as a goal]
- Section 2: Distributing Resources Equitably - Adequacy in School Finance
- Recommendation 1: Assuring Adequate Funding
- Recommendation 2: Distributing Resources Equitably
- Professional Personnel Development
- See the section on K-12 Professional Personnel
Development In California - material on Inadequate Teacher
Quality in Low-Performing Schools and teacher diversity -
and the related recommendations. Other recommendations
pertain to preparation of administrators for
low-performing and hard to staff schools.
If your organization has material that would be useful
for the online dialogue but is not included in the preceding
list, please e-mail a URL to <camp-info@network-democracy.org>.