A concern with educational equity has dominated educational concerns since the 1960s but the focus has shifted from assuring equal access to ethnic or racial minorities to one of who ultimately controls what values the school will transmit. Educational equity, operationalized as fair and just treatment of every student, is a core value, a policy priority, a key standard for pedagogical practices, and a prized outcome in new school designs worldwide. While equity-focused policy and practice have been mainstays in Nigeria and across some nations of the world, the current impetus can also be attributed to massive migration patterns and nation-specific immigration policies. Educational equity is fair and just access to the support and resources necessary to achieve a student’s full academic and social potential. The achievement gap between racial minorities and whites as well as between the rich and the poor is one of the prominent issues of modern Nigerian education.

• CEPERD researchers study the performance gap due to race, gender, family income, disabilities, resource allocation, and other factors, as well as the effectiveness of strategies that try to close these gaps.
• CEPERD researchers examine the benefits of and access to early childhood education; education inequities, teaching students with disabilities; anti-bias education in Nigeria schools and the education challenges that immigrants and refugees face.
• CEPERD researchers discuss the importance of equity and quality education in K-12 schools and how employing equity and quality strategies in classroom instructional practices and school culture can positively change children’s lives.
• The research determines the evolution and development of the term equity in education by the scientific community.
• The research identifies the scientific production and performance of the term equity in the field of education.