So how exactly do you assess educational equity?  Wow!  In other words, how do you make sure that all students are being treated equally and everyone is pretty much on the same page?  This takes a lot of student evaluation which can be done in a variety of ways.  At some points, interviews can be conducted, student observation with a check sheet could be used, forms of tests to determine skills, student questionnaires, etc.  There are a variety of ways to evaluate where students rank according to diverse skills/tasks within the classroom.

Our text states that “educational equity is concerned with both student access to resources (who has it and who doesn’t) as well as the meaningfulness of those resources to students as compared within and between the classrooms, schools, and districts.”  Nonetheless, after reading into educational access a little more, I wonder if it is our responsibility as the educator to give the child that doesn’t have access to a computer at home, more time on the classroom computer to create “equity” between the children without access and the child that has access.  Educational equity has different ways actually that it can be interpreted.  Some people might consider equity as creating an equal gender related atmosphere among the learning environment.  I guess the first step to creating educational equity within the classroom, is a good clear definition of what it really means.