ABSTRACT
Considered individually or collectively, for most educators, these approaches encourage and legitimate their support of equity. However, Floretta McKenzie (1993) does remind us that any overarching set of beliefs usually has a single point of view that has more widespread recognition than another point of view. The cause for this is often the changing economic and political conditions in society. Such is the case with the civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s, which gave people of color and other marginalized groups increased political clout and helped to bring about improved dispositions toward issues of identity including race, disability, gender, sexuality, and religionnot only in society, but also in the realm of education. Thus, the pursuit of equity in the United States, while constant, involves competing and conflicting interests that serve to expand the United States’ citizenry and its developing conception of equity.
