What does ‘equal educational opportunities’ for marginalized children mean? By Subir Shukla While it is a matter of common sense that children are not homogenous, the diversity among them is clearly disadvantageous to some children more than others. Typically these are children from the more marginalized groups of society – whether girls, linguistic or ethnic minorities, working children, disabled children, those from migrant groups, and other such disadvantaged groups. They are disadvantaged by a number of factors, prime of which seems to be that the requirements of the education...