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Does Solving Inequality in Education Mean Embracing ‘Birth Equity’?
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11/15/2022
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EdSurge
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EdSurge
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Many edtech companies, policymakers, teachers and parents are eager to rectify the inequities pervasive in the U.S. education system—especially coming out of the pandemic, which widened academic disparities among students of different races and income levels. But research is stirring up new awareness that by the time children enroll in kindergarten, and, even earlier, preschool, the trajectory of their lives has already been influenced by the resources and health interventions their families were able—or unable—to access.
EdSurge’s Daniel Mollenkamp was one of the first reporters to cover how education technology companies—which typically produce products and host services for students in K-12 schools and colleges—are, as he wrote, “expanding their reach into children’s earliest moments of life.” Seeing a new business opportunity, the edtech industry is joining the ranks of activists and researchers in the growing movement for “birth equity,” which calls for every baby and new parent getting what they need from the very start.
To convey the significance of this trend to readers, Mollenkamp prioritized telling a deeply human story about the consequences of unequal access to early education and health interventions. He contacted nonprofits and advocacy organizations to help him find communities of families with personal ties to these issues. Then he identified and interviewed a parent willing to explain her family’s experience with autism. Mollenkamp also interviewed edtech leaders and researchers, and drew on health and funding data, to concisely explain the emerging “birth equity” industry to readers.
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Does Solving Inequality in Education Mean Embracing ‘Birth Equity’?
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All Content > Enterprise News Story > Pacific
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EdSurge
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EdSurge
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- Regional Gold Award
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