” The pandemic has taken time from our kids who have actually lost something irreplaceable and sacred this year. We will carry its impact for many years to come,” U.S. Secretary of Education, Dr. Miguel Cardona specified at a current interview. “For a lot of students, your zip code and your skin color stay the very best predictor of the opportunities youll have in your life time.”

Dr. Liz Brooke, CCC-SLP, Chief Learning Officer, Lexia Learning & & Dr. Suzanne Carreker, CALT-QI, Principal Educational Content Lead, Lexia Learning
Dr. Liz Brooke, CCC-SLP is the Chief Learning Officer at Lexia Learning and Dr. Suzanne Carreker, CALT-QI is the Principal Educational Content Lead at Lexia Learning.You can access the Lexia Learning webinar in its whole here: How to Improve Equity: One Step, One Goal at a Time.

Myriad opportunity spaces exist in the modern academic system– together with a pandemic thats just expanded these spaces– and are particularly widespread amongst students of various races, ethnic cultures, and socioeconomic classes.

Consider this: 95 percent of trainees have the capacity to find out to check out, according to the National Institutes of Health, yet only about 34 percent of eighth and fourth grade trainees read skillfully, according to the National Assessment of Educational Development. Is this disparity an accomplishment space or a chance space?

How we address this question frames our considering solutions. If we take a look at the variation as an opportunity space, we are saying that all trainees have the exact same ability to attain, however not all students have had the same chance to achieve.

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