The Equal Education Forum

College Admissions Fraud (Article)

Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin allegedly participated in admissions fraud by bribing test proctors to “help” specific students or having someone else take the SAT in a student’s place, as well as pasting the faces of these kids onto photos of people playing sports. https://thefederalist.com/2019/03/13/celebrity-college-admissions-scheme-hurt-good-kids/

Education Gap: The Root of Inequality (Video)

“Education may be the key to solving broader American inequality, but we have to solve educational inequality first. Harvard’s Ronald Ferguson, director of The Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University, says there is progress being made, there are encouraging examples to emulate, that an early start is critical, and that a lot of hard work…

Affirmative Action

In a 2008 presidential debate, John McCain and Barack Obama discussed the potential impacts of maintaining affirmative action. The eventual president, Barack Obama, argued that there are in fact clear flaws in the policy. He stated explicitly, “I’ve also said that affirmative action is not going to be the long-term solution to the problems of…

Budget Cuts

Students of color are often concentrated in schools with fewer resources. Schools with 90 percent or more students of color spend $733 less per student per year than schools with 90 percent or more white students. Budget cuts destroy public schools in low income neighborhoods. How can we convince our government officials to stop this?

Educational Inequality

6.8 million children, or about 1 in 11 of all children in the U.S., live at 50 percent below the federal poverty line. 30% of children raised in poverty do not finish high school. People who do not earn a high school diploma by age 20 are 7 times more likely to be persistently poor…