Equity Indicators in Education
Reducing injustice requires increasing educational equity. As a nation, our success depends on our ability to eradicate racial and economic disparities in access, opportunity, experience, and outcomes.
To that end, the Opportunity Institute works to improve the evidence available to policymakers and education stakeholders on educational equity and disparities. We work with federal, state, and community partners to inform the development of indicator systems that are used to monitor education disparities and improve opportunities and outcomes for students.
Equity Indicators
Our work builds upon a framework for educational equity indicators recommended by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) in a 2019 report Monitoring Educational Equity, an effort chaired by OI Co-Founder Christopher Edley.
Our work is in four areas:
Supporting the implementation of the NASEM framework in states; this includes working to strengthen state-based data and improvement systems rooted in equity.
Connecting practitioners, advocates, community partners, researchers, and policymakers in order to learn from leading efforts to measure and address education disparities.
Strengthening federal systems to improve data and action on educational disparities.
Strengthening knowledge about and availability of indicators that measure the “whole child,” including social and emotional wellbeing, health, and other measures.