At best, using the wrong word can be embarrassing. At worst, you change the meaning of your sentence completely. Last year, many people searched for the difference between systematic and systemic. If ...

The words equality and equity often get used interchangeably, but they have quite different meanings. Equality is an objective term — it means just what it implies and there is little room for debate.

Re “Equality must trump ‘equity’” (Feb. 5): I recommend that Mr. Boddie add America’s universities to those calling the shots on reordering society. They are the source of the ideas that prop up this ...

I was disappointed but not surprised to read Chris Romer’s column extolling the virtues of equity as being better than the concept of equality. The idea of equity has become a prominent feature of the ...

There was a multipart series here a few years ago on the differences between “equity” and “equality” for schools, but I’m not sure there’s been much advancement in understanding since that time. I do, ...