Category: Educational Inequality and Access
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Language as Gatekeeper: How Medium-of-Instruction Policies Decide Who Advances in Multilingual Societies
The Student Press · Equity Desk · Est. Today Language as Gatekeeper: How Medium-of-Instruction Policies Decide Who Advances in Multilingual Societies On the language of the classroom, and how it quietly opens some doors and closes others In much of the world, a child’s first day of school is also the day they encounter a…
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The Summer Learning Gap: How Months Outside the Classroom Compound Advantage and Disadvantage Across Years
The Student Press · Equity Desk · Est. Today The Summer Learning Gap: How Months Outside the Classroom Compound Advantage and Disadvantage Across Years On the quiet season when inequality does some of its most stubborn work Schools spend the academic year doing something remarkable: they bring children of very different backgrounds toward a more…
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Tracking and Sorting: The Mechanisms by Which Schools Reproduce the Class Structures They Claim to Disrupt
The Student Press · Equity Desk · Est. Today Tracking and Sorting: The Mechanisms by Which Schools Reproduce the Class Structures They Claim to Disrupt On the quiet machinery that turns a child’s background into their academic fate Schools present themselves as engines of mobility, places where ability rather than birth decides who rises. Yet…
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The Geography of Opportunity: How Where a Child Is Born Determines the Education They Receive
The Student Press · Equity Desk · Est. Today The Geography of Opportunity: How Where a Child Is Born Determines the Education They Receive On the accident of the map, and why a postcode still predicts a future We like to believe that a child’s prospects depend on their talent and effort. The evidence is…