Concept information
Preferred term
educational equity
Definition
- Educational equity refers to equal access, opportunities, and expectations in education for all persons, irrespective of their backgrounds or status. As a democratic nation, the United States offers a system of “universal” and free public education as a primary mechanism for providing equal educational access and opportunities to all persons, for preparing its people for civic participation in society, and for the socialization of immigrants. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Problems; Educational Equity]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- access to programs and facilities
- antiharassment policies
- Brown v. Board of Education
- de facto segregation
- de jure segregation
- dual and unitary systems
- equal protection analysis
- ESOL
- free speech and expression rights of students
- Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network
- hostile work environments
- League of United Latin American Citizens
- limited language proficiency
- Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- NAACP
- peer-to-peer sexual harassment
- quid pro quo sexual harassment
- rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered persons
- rights of students and school personnel with HIV/AIDS
- same-sex sexual harassment
- sexual harassment of students by teachers
- sexuality education
- sexual orientation
- sports programming and scheduling
- state aid and the establishment clause
- thorough and efficient systems of education
- Title IX and athletics
- Title IX and sexual harassment
- white flight
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/educational_equity
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