How can education leaders monitor and measure progress toward educational equity? Educational policy makers and leaders recognize the importance of making sure that students of all backgrounds and abilities have an equal chance to succeed. This goal of educational equity has been historically difficult to achieve, but it is especially timely now.

We are living in a time where the word ‘crisis’ is becoming ever more commonplace in the discourse of both public policy and decision making in public and private sector organisations. Equally, and for a number of years, the role and influence of experts and the evidence they bring to the decision-making process have been challenged multiple times.