Essay

Applying Equity Literacy’s Four Abilities to Middle Schools for the Benefit of Students Experiencing Homelessness

Author

• • Matthew J Moulton
  • Indiana State University View ROR record for Indiana State University. (opens in new tab)

Abstract

In this essay, I use the McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Assistance Improvements Act of 2001 to define homelessness and describe its prevalence in United States public schools. I present readers with statistics about student homelessness and situate Gorski’s equity literacy within the progressive, equity-oriented foundations of the middle school movement and as a means by which stakeholders could begin to address homelessness in their contexts. After presenting the four abilities of equity literate educators, I apply the abilities to the nuances of student homelessness in the middle grades.

Keywords: equity, student homelessness

How to Cite: Moulton, M. J. (2020) “Applying Equity Literacy’s Four Abilities to Middle Schools for the Benefit of Students Experiencing Homelessness”, Middle Grades Review. 6(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.70793/mgr.73