So we turned to ChatGPT and asked it to go into "expert" mode and answer the question: How do you differentiate between equality and equity in K-12 education? After thinking for a bit it shared it's wisdom. Here, for your reading pleasure, is what it told us. Great question—and honestly, people mix these up all the time, so you’re not alone. In expert terms, the difference comes down to fairness vs. sameness. Equality Definition: Giving everyone the same resources, rules, or opportunities. Assumption: Everyone starts from the same place and needs the same support. Focus: Uniform treatment. Example:Every student gets the same textbook and the same amount of … [Read more...]
How ‘Equity’ debases education
By Fyodor Kushnirsky Originally published at The American Thinker In the current backlash against DEI, most criticism is focused on the "D" -- diversity -- which replaces the principle of meritocracy with racial criteria in hiring, admissions, and promotions. Notorious examples of implementation include police and fire departments lowering requirements for education and physical fitness, or aviation authorities adopting biographical assessment in place of traditional skill-based hiring evaluations. The "E" -- equity -- is more complex. Equity has replaced the concept of equality, which progressive ideology in the U.S. deems discriminatory because of its emphasis on individual … [Read more...]
Test Scores Plummet for Low-Income Students as Woke Agenda Ruins U.S. Schools – “Five Alarm Fire”
The Gateway Pundit shares this article. https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/test-scores-plummet-low-income-students-as-woke/ Summary Pts (if you don't want to read the whole article): Test scores started falling in 2013...long before Covid Poor, disadvantaged kids and working-class students are being hurt the most Radical progressive dogma is the root cause Since 2013, public schools have been rapidly reengineered to prioritize equity over excellence, activism over academics, and “lived experience” over logic and literacy. Phonics and factual history have been replaced by feelings, narratives, and DEI training sessions. The shift from teaching core subjects to … [Read more...]
New ‘Grading For Equity’ System In Some California Schools Gets Mixed Reviews
California continues to demolish education. This article was published in ZeroHedge. As California students return to school, the debate over a new grading system aimed at eliminating biases in traditional grading continues across the state. The new system, “Grading for Equity,” seeks to remove non-academic factors such as attendance, participation, and timely submission of assignments from students’ grades, focusing solely on mastery of content. “It’s really trying to make the grade only represent what a student has learned about the course,” Joe Feldman, an author and former teacher who popularized the grading system, said in an episode of EpochTV’s “California Insider” … [Read more...]
‘Equity’ Grading Is the Latest Educational Fad Destined To Fail
From Reason Magazine Modern public-education history is littered with novel education theories that have failed so spectacularly that the terms are now used as pejoratives. For instance, when I was in elementary school in the 1960s, the "New Math" focused on teaching abstractions rather than fundamentals. You can find reams of research documenting its failure decades later, but the evidence was recognized almost immediately. That then-new approach "ignored completely the fact that mathematics is a cumulative development and that it is practically impossible to learn the newer creations if one does not know the older ones," according to Morris Kline's 1973 "Common Core," a set of … [Read more...]
Portland Public Schools considers move to ‘equitable’ grade system
So grades are under attack as being unfair? Teachers would determine the grade based on their assessment of the student and various factors? Opinions will matter more than results? Your thoughts? What's your school district planning? Do you know? By Paulina Aguilar Published: Aug. 31, 2023 at 8:52 PM PDT Link to original story PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Portland Public Schools is considering moving to an “equitable grading system,” in which teachers assess students’ work while considering their diverse background needs to promote fairness in the classroom. PPS currently runs on a traditional grading system. “Maybe there some like linguistic inaccuracies … [Read more...]
‘Equity’ in Education: Equal Opportunity or Equal Outcome?
This article does a good job explaining why "equity" and "equality" are two completely different terms in K-12 education. The article also goes on to describe the damage focusing on equity causes. The original article can be found at: The American Spectator K-12 public education nationwide is fixated on the term “equity.” It has been added to many public school mission statements and core values, but the positive-sounding term means something more — and something more destructive — than providing equal opportunity for students. Identifying and labeling students based on their socioeconomic and ethnic or race group dominates the education conversation, with group academic … [Read more...]
Wokeness in public schools
If you have 5 minutes and 4 seconds please watch this video. This young man did an incredible job sharing his views and real world examples of what is happening in schools and district across the nation. What's your district doing? https://rumble.com/v2accr6-student-leaves-woke-school-board-speechless-exposes-them-all-and-drops-the-.html Equality and equal opportunity are the aspirations...equity has been weaponized. … [Read more...]
Anaheim California school district – Taught 7th through 12th-grade students about the “daily effects of white privilege” and “implicit bias?”
Judge for yourself whether it's appropriate to force 7th through 12th graders what if they are "white" they are implicitly "biased". The information in the links is especially revealing. Is this going on in your school district...and how would you know? Give this article a read. The original can be found at The Blaze A California school district's "Black Lives Matter Task Force" created Black History Month lesson plans that taught 7th- through 12th-grade students about the "daily effects of white privilege" and "implicit bias," according to curricula obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Anaheim Union High School District's Black Lives Matter Task Force is a "united … [Read more...]
Ethnic Studies Graduation Requirement – Washington State
The Washington State Board of Education continues to move forward with a requirement to complete a course in "ethnic studies" for students to graduate. This article shares information you may find useful in assessing what the requirements will be and the details. Please take the time to dig in. First, here's a link to the webpage that contains the information: https://sbe.wa.gov/our-work/graduation-requirements/ethnic-studies-graduation-requirement Second, we share a report in the press: The Daily wire reports: https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-state-gears-up-to-mandate-ethnic-studies-as-its-architect-rails-against-jewish-complicity The Washington State Board of … [Read more...]