Wikibooks: Social and Cultural Foundations of American Education/Barriers/Equity
hiddenh3 How is equity a barrier to effective education? Equity has been a battle for all of mankind since the beginning of time because it involves the moral value of fairness. Even the youngest of children understand fairness and it is often the center of their universe and what they thrive upon....
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| Summary: | hiddenh3 How is equity a barrier to effective education? Equity has been a battle for all of mankind since the beginning of time because it involves the moral value of fairness. Even the youngest of children understand fairness and it is often the center of their universe and what they thrive upon. Therefore there is no contest that equity is a barrier in education. The equity barrier affects three main groups in education race gender and special needs. =The Difference Between Equity and Equality= It is important not to confuse equity and equality. A good definition of both is “Equity refers to fairness which may require different treatment or special measures for some persons or groups. Equality refers to the same treatment in dealings quantities or values” (Gray). With a clear definition of each the equity barrier which faces race gender and special needs should be coming clear. =Race= A study finds this “…Asian and Pacific Islanders lead other U.S. populations in home computer ownership (55%). White non Hispanic house holds rank second (46.6%) while other race and origin groups (American Indian/Eskimos/Aleuts blacks and Hispanics) lag between 12.3 and 23.4 percentage points behind their white counterparts” (www.ncrel.org/engauge/framewk/equ/racial/equracra.htm). When race and education are mentioned together the first thing to come to mind is school integration. Integration of schools would fall under equality because it gives all races same treatment with same buildings books and teachers. While over the past forty or so years there has been a movement for equality in schools there is still an equity barrier. There have been studies done correlating home computer ownership and racial equity. Humans now live in a digital world. With the movement there has been more required to be done on computers. Education has moved to integration of technology into classrooms and today’s students have to rely heavily upon technology and computers. With this it makes sense to evaluate racial equity in education ... |
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