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ABOUT EDUCATION ACCESS AND ADVOCACY
The Education Access and Advocacy trip to Charlotte, NC focuses on the issues in providing an equitable education across racial, gender, and socioeconomic lines while also examining how quality of and access to education influences numerous aspects of life.
TERMS TO KNOW:
Education Access: Access is an individual’s capability, right, or permission to obtain or acquire something, which can often be limited or impacted by an individual’s various identities including but not limited to age, race, ethnicity, socio-economic status, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, native language, (dis)ability, and/or religious or spiritual affiliation. Education access is an individual’s access to quality, equitable, culturally-appropriate learning, instruction, and development.
Advocacy: Advocacy is public support for, promotion of, and recommendation of a particular cause or policy. In terms of education advocacy, this includes advocating for historically nondominant groups’ rights for an equitable education which is respectful of their individuals’ own personal dignities, as well as a close analysis of the factors that cause students to give up on their education or historically prevented them from pursuing it in the past.
School to Prison Pipeline: A trend wherein children are funneled out of public schools and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. Many of these children have learning disabilities or histories of poverty, abuse, or neglect, and would benefit from additional educational and counseling services. Instead, they are isolated, punished, and pushed out. Often the result of zero tolerance policies.
Zero Tolerance Policies: Guidelines or rules which criminalize minor infractions of school rules, while cops in schools lead to students being criminalized for behavior that should be handled inside the school. Students of color are especially vulnerable to push-out trends and the discriminatory application of discipline.
Opportunity Gap: Refers to the ways in which race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, English proficiency, community wealth, familial situations, or other factors contribute to or perpetuate lower educational aspirations, achievement, and attainment for certain groups of students.
Achievement Gap: Any significant and persistent disparity in academic performance or educational attainment between different groups of students, such as white students and minorities, for example, or students from higher-income and lower-income households.
Busing: Also called desegregation busing, in the United States, the practice of transporting students to schools within or outside their local school districts as a means of rectifying racial segregation. Although American schools were technically desegregated in 1954 by the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision handed down in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), in practice they remained largely segregated owing to trends in housing and neighbourhood segregation. Busing came to be the main remedy by which the courts sought to end racial segregation in the U.S. schools, and it was the source of what was arguably the biggest controversy in American education in the later 20th century.
Segregation: In relation to our topic, when institutes refused to admit or separated and treated groups of students different groups differently. Historically, this occurred prominently in the US where black students were forced to remain in poor and severely disadvantaged school districts while white students were kept separate and provided with resources of much higher quality, and its after effects are still impacting the US to this day.
Equity: Refers to proportional representation (by race, class, gender, etc.) in same opportunities. To achieve equity, policies and procedures may result in an unequal distribution of resources. A common example of equity in higher-education is need-based financial aid. Equity is about distributing resources based on the needs of different individuals.
Intersectionality: Kimberlé Crenshaw coined this term in a paper as a way to help explain the oppression of African-American women. It is understood as a lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, where it interlocks and intersects. Intersectionality theory works to understand how individuals who experience oppression based on multiple aspects of their identity are impacted differently than a person who experiences oppression because of one aspect of their identity.
Food Insecurity: the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, culturally appropriate, nutritious food.
Teen Pregnancy: A pregnancy that occurs for a woman under the age of 20. Statistically negatively impacts the educational outcome of both mother and child.
Prison Education: Any educational activity that occurs inside prison. Courses can include basic literacy programs, secondary school equivalency programs, vocational education and tertiary education. Other activities such as rehabilitation programs, physical education and arts and crafts programs may also be considered a form of prison education. The goal is to help
Inclusivity: The practice or policy of providing equitable access to opportunities and resources for people who might otherwise be excluded or marginalized, such as those having physical or mental disabilities or belonging to other minority groups.
Sources: ACLU, edglossary.org, Encyclopedia Britannica, law.columbia.edu, Wikipedia
Advocacy: Advocacy is public support for, promotion of, and recommendation of a particular cause or policy. In terms of education advocacy, this includes advocating for historically nondominant groups’ rights for an equitable education which is respectful of their individuals’ own personal dignities, as well as a close analysis of the factors that cause students to give up on their education or historically prevented them from pursuing it in the past.
School to Prison Pipeline: A trend wherein children are funneled out of public schools and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. Many of these children have learning disabilities or histories of poverty, abuse, or neglect, and would benefit from additional educational and counseling services. Instead, they are isolated, punished, and pushed out. Often the result of zero tolerance policies.
Zero Tolerance Policies: Guidelines or rules which criminalize minor infractions of school rules, while cops in schools lead to students being criminalized for behavior that should be handled inside the school. Students of color are especially vulnerable to push-out trends and the discriminatory application of discipline.
Opportunity Gap: Refers to the ways in which race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, English proficiency, community wealth, familial situations, or other factors contribute to or perpetuate lower educational aspirations, achievement, and attainment for certain groups of students.
Achievement Gap: Any significant and persistent disparity in academic performance or educational attainment between different groups of students, such as white students and minorities, for example, or students from higher-income and lower-income households.
Busing: Also called desegregation busing, in the United States, the practice of transporting students to schools within or outside their local school districts as a means of rectifying racial segregation. Although American schools were technically desegregated in 1954 by the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision handed down in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), in practice they remained largely segregated owing to trends in housing and neighbourhood segregation. Busing came to be the main remedy by which the courts sought to end racial segregation in the U.S. schools, and it was the source of what was arguably the biggest controversy in American education in the later 20th century.
Segregation: In relation to our topic, when institutes refused to admit or separated and treated groups of students different groups differently. Historically, this occurred prominently in the US where black students were forced to remain in poor and severely disadvantaged school districts while white students were kept separate and provided with resources of much higher quality, and its after effects are still impacting the US to this day.
Equity: Refers to proportional representation (by race, class, gender, etc.) in same opportunities. To achieve equity, policies and procedures may result in an unequal distribution of resources. A common example of equity in higher-education is need-based financial aid. Equity is about distributing resources based on the needs of different individuals.
Intersectionality: Kimberlé Crenshaw coined this term in a paper as a way to help explain the oppression of African-American women. It is understood as a lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, where it interlocks and intersects. Intersectionality theory works to understand how individuals who experience oppression based on multiple aspects of their identity are impacted differently than a person who experiences oppression because of one aspect of their identity.
Food Insecurity: the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, culturally appropriate, nutritious food.
Teen Pregnancy: A pregnancy that occurs for a woman under the age of 20. Statistically negatively impacts the educational outcome of both mother and child.
Prison Education: Any educational activity that occurs inside prison. Courses can include basic literacy programs, secondary school equivalency programs, vocational education and tertiary education. Other activities such as rehabilitation programs, physical education and arts and crafts programs may also be considered a form of prison education. The goal is to help
Inclusivity: The practice or policy of providing equitable access to opportunities and resources for people who might otherwise be excluded or marginalized, such as those having physical or mental disabilities or belonging to other minority groups.
Sources: ACLU, edglossary.org, Encyclopedia Britannica, law.columbia.edu, Wikipedia
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