Toward a High-Quality Education
A new report from the Education Rights Institute offers a primer on why reducing opportunity gaps — rather than achievement gaps — is the key to a high-quality education. It also introduces two important components of a high-quality education: college and career readiness and civic engagement.
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Opportunity Gaps vs. Achievement Gaps
An Education Rights Institute video explains why educators should be addressing gaps in educational opportunity rather than achievement gaps.
“Guaranteeing a federal right of every student to receive a high-quality education would provide the missing building blocks for our nation to enjoy a thriving democracy, robust economy and just society.”
—Professor Kimberly Jenkins Robinson, Director of the Education Rights Institute
