There's a terrific paper by Christopher Jencks in Ethics called "Whom Must We Treat Equally for Educational opportunity to Be Equal?" http://www.cems.uvm.edu/~

There's a terrific paper by Christopher Jencks in Ethics called "Whom Must We Treat Equally for Educational opportunity to Be Equal?" http://www.cems.uvm.edu/~sweaver/educationalequality2.pdf http://www.cems.uvm.edu/~sweaver/educationalequality2.pdf His point is that equal opportunity is not as easy to define in education as you might first believe. It's worth reading before claiming to know the answer, in my opinion.