The Educational Equity Group was established in 1975 within the National Institute of Education (NIE) to bring a renewed focus to several research and developmental activities previously carried out in separate organizational units of the institute. The group's mandate is to investigate and develop ways to provide high quality education for those with limited educational opportunities. The Educational Equity Program focuses on educational problems faced at all levels by substantial numbers of children and adults who are not well served by the nation's public schools. The Fiscal Year 1977 program focuses on students with any of the following characteristics: live in a milieu of low socioeconomic level; have little or no knowledge of English; are restricted by sex role stereotypes; are participating in the process of school desegregation; belong to an ethnic or racial minority; have learning styles and behavior patterns that differ markedly from school norms. Five NIE units--whose programs are discussed in this brochure -- have become the Educational Equity Group: the Compensatory Education Division, the Desegregation Studies Staff, the Multicultural/Bilingual Division, the School Discipline Studies Staff, and the Womens' Research Staff. (Author/JM)