Equity as access to learning: Curricular and instructional treatment differences

The information collected during the study conveys a picture of students who may attend the same school but who come away with very different educational experiences. Included in the differences are the attention they receive from counselors, the subjects they study, the textbooks they read, the expectations their teachers have of them, the amount of homework they do, even the amount of time they spend in class (California State Department of Education 1984 a: 7).