Michael Rodriguez, Campbell Leadership Chair in Education and Human Development, professor in the Department of Educational Psychology’s Quantitative Methods in Education program and co-director of the Educational Equity Resource Center, and Julie Sweitzer, director of the College Readiness Consortium and co-director of the Educational Equity Resource Center, recently wrote a commentary featured in MinnPost, “Educational Equity is Minnesota’s most important challenge.”
In the article, Rodriguez and Sweitzer argue that if we fail to replace the state’s aging “baby boomer” workforce by helping our increasingly diverse student body graduate, “the state economic forecast is grim.”
The co-directors told MinnPost readers that there is no one way to bring about educational equity. The key, they say, is to “focus on what works for whom, in what context and conditions, and develop a culture of continuous improvement that adjusts and tailors effective practices to each setting.”
Rodriguez and Sweitzer invited community members from across the state to be part of the solution by attending the first Educational Equity in Action convening hosted by the University of Minnesota.
