Equity Through Mutual Accountability

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Equity through mutual accountability

Collective capacity building helps educators address the needs of all students

By Joaquin Noguera and Pedro Noguera

October 2018

Vol. 39 No. 5

Today, over half of students served in our nation’s public schools are students of color, and over half of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch (Rich, 2015). Because of the persistence of race and class segregation in housing patterns and a lack of willingness to implement past court orders for school desegregation (Rothstein, 2017), many schools are characterized by hypersegregation by both race and class (Orfield, Ee, Frankenberg, & Siegel-Hawley, 2016). Moreover, in much of the country, the most disadvantaged children are most likely to attend underfunded schools (U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 2018). They also typically obtain the lowest test scores, graduation rates, and, in many cases, are more likely to be subjected to punitive forms of discipline. Too often, the services needed

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Authors

Joaquin Noguera and Pedro Noguera

Joaquin Noguera ([email protected]) is a member of the education faculty at Bard College’s Masters in Teaching program and a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. Pedro Noguera ([email protected]) is a distinguished professor of education at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA and founder of the Center for the Transformation of Schools.

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