Commentary: There is no 'great equalizer' without a compassionate educational system

“Education is the great equalizer,” or so they say. What happens, then, when education itself is unequal? For many students, their experience with the “great equalizer” is anything but fair; students of marginalized identities are far more likely than their peers to receive harsh and punitive treatment, leading to trends in which they are pushed out of school at high rates.A recent report by Voices for Utah Children and the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law s