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What is Education Equity? In this episode of "Sparking Equity," host Pedro Noguera talks with his son Joaquín Noguera to demystify a term that has become hugely and unnecessarily controversial in numerous school districts throughout the nation. In some school districts, superintendents have become fearful of even using the term for fear of inviting blowback or fierce criticism.

Pedro Noguera is dean of the USC Rossier School of Education in Los Angeles, while Joaquín is a professor of education at nearby Loyola Marymount University.

This is the first of a two-part series on equity. Watch for our next episode, in which we will profile the Hacienda-La Puente School District in Los Angeles, which has made equity a central focus of its work -- which is paying off in the remarkable success of its diverse, largely low-income student body.

This episode of“Sparking Equity,” with hosts Pedro Noguera and Louis Freedberg, was produced before the podcast was rebranded “Education on the Line.”

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