Recent news articles have discussed the Las Cruces school board's recently passed "equity" policy. Yet many confuse "equity" with "equality." According to the New Mexico Public Education Department's ...

In every video posted on social media concerning African American lives, there is a handful of people commenting on the “injustice” of focusing solely on black lives. These are the people who made ...

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Former Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson blasted the progressive push for racial equity as "what we used to call racism." In a new opinion piece published Monday, Carson argued ...

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.

As the mother of a kindergartner, a ninth-grader and an 11th-grader, a middle and high school teacher for a decade and an assistant professor working with future teachers, I have never met with a ...

Karen Baptiste, Ed.D., a senior consultant at McREL International, is a former special education teacher, instructional coach, and director who now works with K–12 schools across the United States to ...

I was disappointed but not surprised to read Chris Romer’s column extolling the virtues of equity as being better than the concept of equality. The idea of equity has become a prominent feature of the ...

"Real Time" host Bill Maher took a moment Friday night to tip his hat to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who offered a candid response to a question over what the difference is between equity and equality ...

Equality assures that everyone receives the same thing, but equity assures that everyone gets what they need. More than other diseases, COVID-19 has revealed the significant racial disparities in care ...