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• "I Want My Teachers To Like Me": Multiculturalism and School Dropout Rates among Mexican Americans
  Investigated Mexican American high school students' perceptions of multiculturalism, noting whether perceptions affected academic achievement, intention to graduate, and postsecondary educational aspirations. Surveyed, interviewed, and observed students and staff at schools with low and high Hispanic dropout rates.
• "Making Democracy Real": Teacher Union and Community Activism To Promote Diversity in the New York City Public Schools, 1935-1950
  Examines how an interracial coalition of radical teachers from the Teachers Union of New York City and community activists from Harlem promoted black history and intercultural curriculum and collaborated with parents for school reform during the 1930s-40s. Their efforts to develop more culturally responsive schools were derailed in the late 1940s by the red-baiting of progressive scholars and teacher union activists during the cold war.
• "Other" Encounters: Dances with Whiteness in Multicultural Education
  Reviews four books in order to examine the contradictory and ambivalent spaces occupied and co-occupied with multicultural education, locating multicultural education within the Eurocentric regimes of truth (democracy, pluralism, and equality) and addressing how the books rectify or contest the regimes of truth moving within and against the parameters of the white studies configuration of higher education. (SM).
• "Our Own Voice": The Necessity of Chicano Literature in Mainstream Curriculum
  Discusses the importance of Chicano literature in mainstream curriculum for higher educational attainment and personal fulfillment, providing historical background on the education of Chicanos, describing Chicano literature, and making recommendations for implementing Chicano literature at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. Notes the importance of teaching Chicano students how their culture differs from other Hispanic cultures.
• "School's Not Really a Place for Reading": A Research Synthesis of the Literate Lives of Students With Severe Disabilties
  Developmental and connectionist research describing a student's development of competent reading and writing skills commonly evokes the image of a normative ladder to literacy. Each rung of the ladder is believed to constitute certain sets of increasingly complex subskills.
• "The Politics of Location": Text As Opposition
  Foregrounds issues of race, ethnicity, and education, and ties together two important issues in teaching basic writing: how social and pedagogical issues in higher education shape possibilities for bicultural students' writings, and how these students can use their developing sense of literacy and their texts to explore identity. Discusses ethnographic research conducted in a writing course, focusing on texts a student wrote.
• "There Is No Way To Prepare for This:" Teaching in First Nations Schools in Northern Ontario--Issues and Concerns
  A qualitative study examined the experiences of 10 mostly inexperienced, female teachers working in two isolated Native communities in northern Ontario. Findings focus on teachers' uncertainties about appropriate pedagogical goals, the relationship of teachers to First Nations communities, living in the North, cross-cultural and multicultural teaching, and teaching English as a second language.
• (Dis)Integrating Multiculturalism with Technology
  Examines whether K-12 teachers are prepared to use technology in innovative and effective ways to authentically present multicultural education, examining the potential inability of teachers to provide an authentic version of multicultural education in the presence of technology as both an individual decision and as the result of generally underconceptualized teacher preparation in the instruction of multicultural education. (SM).
• A Learner Centered Education
  This paper proposes a learner-centered educational system, focusing on aspects that are intrinsically associated with the modern educational system, such as the curriculum, school community, parents, learners, and educational support personnel.
• A Multicultural Approach to Physical Education: Proven Strategies for Middle and High School
  This book offers a multicultural approach to physical education for students in grades 7-12. The approach is intended to increase the individual's feelings of self-worth and generate a shared sense of accomplishment among diverse students.
• A Survival Kit for the Elementary/Middle School Art Teacher
  This book is for art teachers looking for a new approach to the traditional lesson. The projects can be used at most grade levels.
• Accessing the general curriculum: Including students with disabilities in standards-based reform
  Presents a framework and strategies for K-12 teachers in inclusive environments that makes it easier to design instruction that enables all students to access and make progress in the general curriculum.
• Action Research and Practical Inquiry: Multicultural Content Integration in Gifted Education: Lessons from the Field
  An informal survey of 71 teachers of the gifted participating in an in-service course on gifted education suggested that many teachers had goals and experiences related to multicultural curricula for gifted children. Through the survey, teachers also identified obstacles they encountered in implementing multicultural activities and benefits they perceived.
• AFRICAN AMERICANS AND MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION.
  This article examines the root causes for the overrepresentation of African American students in special education classes and their underrepresentation in gifted and talented programs in America's public schools. The article (a) provides a historic overview of the legal struggles for educational equity, (b) examines key issues surrounding the academic status of African American students, (c) discusses multicultural education as a remedy, and (d) recommends an appropriate course of action for educators and policy makers.ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR.
• After the Tsunami, Some Dilemmas: Japanese Language Studies in Multicultural Australia. Language Australia Research Policy and Practice Papers
  This paper describes responses to linguistic pluralism in Australian policy in relation to Australia's Asian language context, and the teaching and learning of Japanese within these two frameworks.
• Agile Learning, New Media, and Technological Infusement at a New University: Serving Underrepresented Students. JSRI Occasional Paper
  The California State University system faces an increase of 100,000 students by 2010, the majority of whom will be Latino. Fundamental restructuring is necessary to accommodate this change, and the new California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) may provide a model.
• All of Us Together Have a Story to Tell
  Outlines questions for teachers to consider when selecting books which may be challenged. Looks at two different stories of challenges to multicultural education, regarding whether an "outsider" has the right to relate the stories of another culture.
• Alternative Perspectives on Orality, Literacy and Education: A View from South Africa
  Examines theoretical concerns about discourses associated typically with what has come to be referred to as the oral tradition and discourses associated typically with academic contexts in order to see how these may relate to students' experiences of higher learning. Looks at the writing of students who are predominantly Xhosa speakers and analyzes the kinds of discourses they seem to display.
• Alternative Schools and Roma Education: A Review of Alternative Secondary School Models for the Education of Roma Children in Hungary. World Bank Regional Office Hungary NGO Studies
  In recent years, a number of experiments have been undertaken in Hungary with alternative approaches to secondary school education for Roma children. This report examines six different institutions that have attempted to help Roma children make the transition from basic to secondary school, and to improve their performance and future opportunities in education and in the labor market.
• An Ethnographic Study of Preservice Teacher Resistance to Multiculturalism: Implications for Teaching
  This paper examines student teachers' resistance to multicultural education, contrasting the expectations of teacher educators, as expressed in the literature, with the perspectives of preservice teachers from a required multiculturalism course.
• An Intervention Package to Support High School Students With Mental Retardation in General Education Classrooms
  The effects of using a multicomponent intervention package to support the classroom performance of 4 high school students with mental retardation enrolled in general education classes were investigated.
• An Introductory Reader to the Writings of Jim Cummins. Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
  This book contains 19 readings covering three decades of the work of academic Jim Cummins.
• Angela: A Pedagogical Story and Conversation
  Presents a fictional account of one teacher's experience with an Aboriginal student, focusing on the details in each section of the story to highlight the many preconceived notions teachers may have when dealing with Aboriginal students. A sidebar offers guidelines for establishing a safe environment for discussing and learning about culturally sensitive issues.
• Application of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences to Second Language Learners in Classroom Situations
  This paper argues for the "nurture" side of the "nature versus nurture" debate of the nature of intelligence. It argues for the theory of multiple intelligences in relation to sociocultural and cognitive perspectives of second language learning.
• Are Our Preservice Teachers Ready To Teach in This Culturally Diverse Society? Examining Preservice Teachers' Self-Assessment on Their Multicultural Teaching Performance
  This study examined preservice teachers' multicultural teaching performance and noted whether preservice teachers' demographic and educational backgrounds would predict their performance. Preservice teachers completed the Survey of Preservice Teachers' Multicultural Teaching Competency, which included questions about knowledge of subject matter, knowledge of human development and learning, adapting instruction for individual needs, multiple instructional strategies, classroom motivation and management skills, communication skills, instructional planning skills, assessment of student learning, professional commitment, and responsibility.
• Asian Students and Humanities Subjects: Report to the Equity and Social Justice Branch, Victoria University
  Australia is a multicultural society and, in recent years, Asian immigration has increased tremendously. In terms of the educational participation of Asian-Australian students, students from non-English-speaking backgrounds are not highly represented in humanities, arts, and education courses.
• Asking the Right Questions: Helping Mainstream Students Understand Other Cultures
  Two common tendencies that lead many mainstream students to misinterpret other cultures are the combative response and the exoticizing response. These misinterpretations, however, can be excellent learning moments for helping students understand the constructed nature of culture and the contextual nature of learning.
• Assimilation or Pluralism? Changing Policies for Minority Languages Education in Australia
  Traces the effects on Australian language policy of a changing sociolinguistic situation--increasing multilingualism--and a weakening of a monolingual ideology. Analyzes the country' s emergence from an assimilationist past to its embracement of a more multicultural approach with special reference to young Cambodian-Australian's educational achievements that show the vital importance of school support for minority language literacy and students' subsequent professional advancement.
• Becoming an Intercultural Mediator: A Longitudinal Study of Residence Abroad
  Examines the long-term learning of a cohort of students who had participated in a study abroad year. Draws on research that took place during the study abroad year and 10 years later.
• Best Practices for High School Classrooms: What Award-Winning Secondary Teachers Do
  This book provides guidance on high-impact teaching practices, offering first-hand accounts of award-winning teachers.
• Beyond Mulan: Rediscovering the Heroines of Chinese Folklore
  Notes how sadly the Disney treatment of the story of Mulan reduced both the character Mulan and the story's broad appeal. Presents and critiques four picture book versions of the Mulan legend.
• Black English in a Place Called Waterloo
  For many black students, the school language differs significantly from the home language, but preservice education rarely examines this issue. This article examines implications for teaching children who use two different forms of language to navigate the demands of their contrasting sociolinguistic speech communities, discussing: how teacher attitudes and knowledge affect practice; dual language demands; ebonics; and language as power.
• Blending Cultural Anthropology and Multicultural Education: Team Teaching in a Teacher Education Program
  Describes how a large urban university and K-6 classroom teachers collaborated to design an undergraduate teacher education program in elementary and special education, creatively combining subject matter curriculum with educational issues and pedagogy to better prepare teachers to succeed in diverse urban schools. The result was the team-taught Liberal Studies Seminar in Anthropology.
• Breaking Down the Walls: Camp/School Program Brings Diverse Communities Together
  The Discovery Center (Ashford, Connecticut) is a camp/university/school program that provides a positive diversity experience to preadolescents through experiential education in an outdoor, residential setting. Students from at least four cultural groups are mixed for all cabin and lab groups, and all camp activities are retooled to pursue the goal of comprehensive diversity education.
• Bridges on the I-Way: Multicultural Resources Online
  Presents an annotated list of various multicultural education resources that are available free of charge on the World Wide Web. Topics include: multicultural and gender issues in mathematics education; barrier-free education for students with disabilities; women in education; gender and equity reform in math, science, and engineering; and a profile of equitable mathematics and science classroom teachers.
• Brothers of the Academy: Up and Coming Black Scholars Earning Our Way in Higher Education
  This book offers 26 papers by black male scholars that examine the experience of being a black man in the academy and demonstrate what black men have contributed to the scholarly enterprise.
• Buried Treasures in the Classroom: Using Hidden Influences To Enhance Literacy Teaching and Learning. Kids InSight, K-12
  The lessons learned by this book's authors, who observed literacy events in third- and fourth-grade classrooms, altered their vision of teaching and learning. The book shares their observations of how students engage in literacy events and construct meaning within these events, focusing on three factors that significantly influence the construction of meaning in classroom settings: stance, social positioning, and interpretive authority--as well as how tensions can arise between students and teachers based on the relationship among these factors.
• CAIS/ACSI 2001: Beyond the Web: Technologies, Knowledge and People
  Presents abstracts of papers presented at the 29th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) held in Quebec on May 27-29, 2001. Topics include: professional development; librarian/library roles; information technology uses; virtual libraries; information seeking behavior; literacy; information retrieval; multicultural education; information science; and knowledge management.
• Carpet in Schools: Myth and Reality.
  Carpet can serve as a type of finish over concrete, improves the acoustical environment and helps build more conducive, personalized learning environment.
• Cause or Effect? A Longitudinal Study of Immigrant Latino Parents' Aspirations and Expectations, and Their Children's School Performance
  How much formal schooling for their children do immigrant Latino parents aspire to and expect? Do parents' aspirations or expectations influence children's school achievement? Do aspirations or expectations diminish the longer parents are in the U.S. or if they experience discrimination?.
• Changing Selves: Multicultural Education and the Challenge of New Identities
  After introducing identity and discussing how it has been used in multicultural education, the paper notes general challenges to this paradigm and uses data from an ethnographic study of a multiracial South African high school to critique multicultural education's treatment of identity, suggesting alternate theoretical paradigms, research strategies, and pedagogical practices. (SM).
• Children of War: A Curriculum
  Emphasizes the importance of examining the position of children in war as they provide insight into the conflicts themselves that cannot be attained elsewhere. Presents a secondary curriculum entitled "Children of War" designed to promote an understanding of the phenomenon of children in war from multiple perspectives, including sociocultural, historical, and personal.
• Children with Communication Disorders: Update 2001. ERIC Digest
  This digest discusses various types of communication disorders, their incidence, the learning difficulties associated with them, the special case of English language learners, and the educational significance of communication disorders.
• Children's Ways with Words in Science and Mathematics: A Conversation across Disciplines (Durham, New Hampshire, December 4-7, 1999). Special Report
  At a time when children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds represent the fastest growing school-age population in the United States, too many of these children are failing in school science and mathematics. This report discusses the events and recommendations of the Children's Ways with Words in Science and Mathematics conference which brought together educators and researchers from diverse backgrounds and disciplines to explore issues related to learning and achievement in science and mathematics for poor and minority students.
• CIRCA 2000: Curriculum Intervention for Reading Comprehension & Achievement
  Presents an essay that is the result of group-centered activities by graduate students and a faculty mentor in a leadership training program for prospective educational administrators in California. Notes that the class produced some forward-moving and future-thinking core recommendations for reading improvement and achievement in multicultural settings.
• Co-teaching for content understanding: A school-wide model. Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation
  Describes a promising form of professional collaboration: co-teaching between a content area teacher and a special education teacher. Essential to the success of co-teaching partnerships were collaborative school structures, equal status rules for teachers, a commitment to all students' learning, and strong content knowledge.
• COERC 2002: Appreciating Scholarship. Proceedings of the Annual College of Education Research Conference (1st, Miami, Florida, April 27, 2002)
  This conference was designed to offer a view to novice scholars of what scholarship is and provide insights on how to share knowledge with others. The keynote speech by Lisa Delpit, "The Role of Scholarship," is not included in this volume.
• Collective Reflection as an Alternative Methodology in Curriculum Research and Teaching: Representations in Global Perspectives
  This paper describes an alternative methodology used to study students' constructions of meaning as they engage in a curriculum-making project while taking "Global Perspectives," a foundational graduate preservice teacher education course at Pace University, New York.
• Communicating Diversity: A Study of the Multicultural Climate in a Summer Academic Program
  A study examined multiculturalism and diversity through accommodations for minority and international students in LEAP (Learning Edge Academic Program), a six-week summer program for freshmen at a major Eastern university. Subjects included administrators, mentors, instructors, and students, who were interviewed regarding their perceptions on the issues.
• Composing standards and composing teachers: The problem of national board certification
  Considers whether National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) certification is as much an evaluation of teachers writing about their teaching as it is of the teaching itself, exploring two NBPTS certificate candidates' experiences, analyzing problems inherent in NBPTS standards and writing difficulties in NBPTS portfolio entries, and concluding that rhetorical skill is a problematic, unarticulated standard of the Board.
• Conditions, Concessions, and the Many Tender Mercies of Learning through Multicultural Literature
  Explores how students constructed their own texts and meanings when they were required to read, interpret, and critique unfamiliar text written about underrepresented people. Presents the concepts "conditions," "concessions," and many "tender mercies" of learning through multicultural literature when presented as new literature to a heterogeneous mix of students.
• Consequences of a state accountability program: examining relationships between school performance gains and teacher, student, and school variables.
  Study explored the relationship between (a) changes in the scores from the Maryland State Performance Assessment Program from 1993 to 1998 and (b) classroom instruction and assessment practices, student learning and motivation. Several factors from each of these dimensions were found to explain a significant amount of variability in school performance over time using growth models.
• Constructivist Pedagogy for Authentically Activating Oral Skills in the Foreign Language Classroom
  This paper explains how oral competence in foreign languages is developed by applying constructivist pedagogic methodology to the four language skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Foreign language constructivist methodology departs from the information processing model and behaviorist teaching that guide the transmission of foreign language teaching.
• Counseling Multiracial/Multiethnic Children
  There are two central issues that must be addressed when counseling multiracial and multiethnic children in the United States. The first is that, although the United States is fixated on race, only single-race group membership is recognized.
• Creating Opportunities for Emerging Biliteracy
  Outlines instructional principles upon which classroom practices in a fourth grade and in a kindergarten class are based that contribute to students' success, love of literacy, and emerging biliteracy. Discusses creating a socioculturally supportive learning environment that (1) affirms the cultural and linguistic resources of all students; (2) provides opportunities for inclusion and choice; and (3) involves parents in their children's learning.
• Creating the will; Hispanics achieving educational excellence: A report to the President of the United States, the Secretary of Education and the nation
  This report provides data on the current educational condition of Hispanics from early childhood through graduate and professional education. It also offers strategies for multiple sectors, parents, schools, communities, the private sector, and the government, to improve Hispanic educational achievement.
• Creating World Peace, One Classroom at a Time
  Recounts activities from a kindergarten classroom to illustrate how a multicultural approach cultivates a school environment embracing diversity and educating students about responsibilities associated with freedom. Stories include those related to students viewing each other in terms of individual characteristics rather than their ethnic group, creating a mind map for Earth Day, and cooperating with older students to write class letters against child labor.
• Creative Experiences for Young Children. Third Edition
  Noting that a creative approach to early childhood education allows teachers to reinforce the foundation of achievement by encouraging and expanding upon children's play activities, this book provides teacher-developed ideas and strategies for creating learning communities in the early childhood classroom.
• Critical Citizens for an Intercultural World: Foreign Language Education as Cultural Politics. Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education
  This book explores the development of critical cultural awareness through the process of teaching and learning about foreign cultures. It draws upon theoretical foundations relating to inter- and intra-cultural communication from contemporary philosophical movements, namely critical theory and postmodernism.
• Critical Issues in School Reform: A Community of Learners: Souhegan High School
  These Workshops combine video clips recorded in real classrooms with useful suggestions and lively discussion by practicing teachers and content experts.
• Critical Issues in School Reform: Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development
  These Workshops combine video clips recorded in real classrooms with useful suggestions and lively discussion by practicing teachers and content experts".
• Critical Issues in School Reform: Making Teaching Public: Pasadena High School
  These Workshops combine video clips recorded in real classrooms with useful suggestions and lively discussion by practicing teachers and content experts.
• Critical Issues in School Reform: The Pattonville District
  These Workshops combine video clips recorded in real classrooms with useful suggestions and lively discussion by practicing teachers and content experts.
• Critical Issues in School Reform:Looking at Student Work: A Window into the Classroom
  These Workshops combine video clips recorded in real classrooms with useful suggestions and lively discussion by practicing teachers and content experts.
• Critical Issues in School Reform:Reflecting of Teaching Practice- Part 2 ( Science)
  These Workshops combine video clips recorded in real classrooms with useful suggestions and lively discussion by practicing teachers and content experts".
• Critical Issues in School Reform:The Patrick O'Hearn School
  These Workshops combine video clips recorded in real classrooms with useful suggestions and lively discussion by practicing teachers and content experts.
• Critical Pedagogy: Translation for Education that Is Multicultural
  Examined the translation of multicultural learning activities in a college classroom into critical pedagogy in public school classrooms. Practicing teachers enrolled in the course completed interviews and surveys.
• Critiquing Whole Language and Classroom Inquiry. WLU Series
  This book, part of the Whole Language Umbrella Series, offers a critical reexamination of "inquiry" and "whole language" as tools for rethinking literacy, schooling, and humanistic citizenship in the complexities of today's multicultural world.
• Cultural and Language Diversity in the Middle Grades
  Discusses the cultural and language diversity of young adolescents. Outlines 10 steps to foster a multicultural (or macro cultural) perspective in all students at the middle school level, strategies that build on students' diversity to create a positive and cooperative learning environment.
• Cultural Complexity That Affects Young Children's Contemporary Growth, Change, and Learning
  Based on the view that the group orientation to multicultural education reinforces group stereotyping and seldom allows acknowledgement of diverse children's unique capabilities and differences or helps children build self-identity while learning to appreciate others, this paper presents and discusses contemporary cultures of young children's lives relative to a notion of "lived" early childhood curriculum that is developmentally and culturally conscious. (KB).
• Culturally Competent Assessment: More Than Nonbiased Tests.
  Focuses on the unresolved issues of minority disproportionality in special education. Discussion of test bias; Development of educational opportunity; Quality of remedial and compensatory education programs.ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR The persistent and unresolved issue of minority disproportionality in special education provides a strong rationale for ensuring that assessment is culturally appropriate and sensitive.
• Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice. Multicultural Education Series
  This volume makes the case for using culturally responsive teaching to improve the school performance of underachieving students of color. Key components of culturally responsive teaching are discussed.
• Dealing with Disengagement through Diversity: An Electronic Curriculum for Cultural Relevance
  Examines specific features of the online Blackboard distance learning platform that enhance the advantages of alternative teacher certification programs, especially with regard to helping teachers develop a culturally relevant pedagogy. Focuses on North Carolina's NCTeach program, which provides an accelerated certification process for people currently employed by schools who did not earn their provisional teaching licenses via the traditional route.
• Descriptive analysis of team teaching in two elementary classrooms: a formative experimental approach.
  Descriptive information regarding planning time, type of instructional format of team teaching, student groupings, and follow-up evaluation time were collected. Performance of typical students and students with learning disabilities on curriculum-based assessments measures suggest academic gains in reading and spelling for all students.
• Developing Intercultural Communication and Understanding through Social Studies in Israel
  Discusses the problems related to cultural pluralism, differences among the groups living in Israel, and social studies education within Israel. Focuses on the sociology curriculum, offering a rationale, description, and information about intercultural education.
• Developing Reading-Writing Connections: Strategies from "The Reading Teacher."
  Using literature in the classroom yields rewards. Literature for children is being recognized as increasingly important in children's literacy development.
• Dismantling the Digital Divide: A Multicultural Education Framework
  Describes inequities in access to computers by gender and race, drawing connections between the two and discussing the use of a multicultural education approach to understanding and eliminating the digital divide. This involves such actions as critiquing technology-related inequities in the context of larger educational and social inequities, broadening the significance of access, and confronting capitalist propaganda.
• Diversity and International
  This document contains the following papers on diversity and international issues in technology and teacher education.
• Diversity Initiatives in Higher Education
  Describes university intergroup dialogue programs, which bring together diverse students to discuss issues related to their diversity and develop comfort with and skills for discourse on difficult topics. Examines their basic tenets, themes, and variations.
• Diversity Within Unity: Essential Principles for Teaching and Learning in a Multicultural Society
  Discusses 12 essential principles to help schools teach democratic values in a multicultural society. Derived from findings of the Multicultural Education Consensus Panel to review and synthesize research on diversity, principles are organized into five categories: Teacher learning; student learning; intergroup relations; school governance, organization, and equity; and assessment.
• Do increased levels of parental involvement account for social class differences in track placement? .
  The article examines whether increased levels of school involvement among socially advantaged parents account for children’s advantage in track placement in United States high schools.
• Dow's Conception of Teaching Art: "Harmonious Composition" and "Notan."
  A U.S. art educator, Arthur Wesley Dow, synthesized Japanese and U.S.
• Early Childhood Research & Practice: An Internet Journal on the Development, Care, and Education of Young Children, Fall 2001
  Early Childhood Research and Practice (ECRP), a peer-reviewed, Internet-only journal sponsored by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education (ERIC/EECE), covers topics related to the development, care, and education of children from birth to approximately age 8.
• Earphone English
  Describes Earphone English, a student club sponsored through a partnership between Berkeley High School and the Berkeley Public Library that offers students whose primary language is not English to practice their spoken and aural English skills. Discusses the audiobooks used in the program and the importance of multicultural content and age appropriateness.
• Education for students with special needs: The judicially defined role of parents in the process.
  The new or revised congressional initiative gave parents an expanded role in how elements of this statute can be carried out for the betterment of students with special needs. The information must be shared for all involved.
• Effective classrooms: Teacher behaviors that produce high student achievement
  Shows that the most important factor affecting student learning is the teacher.
• Encyclopedia of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education
  This encyclopedia is designed to promote bilingualism in a comprehensive and comprehensive manner and to be academically sound while remaining accessible to as wide an audience as possible. Each topic is presented in a clear, understandable style.
• Energizing Teacher Education and Professional Development with Problem-Based Learning
  This collection of papers presents a variety of field-tested examples that use problem-based learning (PBL) for teacher education in many professional development settings. It describes PBL activities for preservice, novice, and experienced educators at all levels.
• Estrategias para mejorar los resultados academicos para las latinas (Strategies for Improving the Educational Outcomes of Latinas). ERIC Digest
  The educational experiences of Latinas are affected by the interaction of many factors, including poverty, racism, sexual harassment, and lack of English language proficiency. This Spanish-language digest presents a range of strategies that schools can employ to promote the academic achievement of Latinas.
• Ethics, Power, and Privilege: Salient Issues in the Development of Multicultural Competencies for Teachers Serving African American Children with Disabilities
  This article addresses educators' ethical responsibility for recognizing the inherent dignity and worth of African American students with disabilities. It opens with a brief overview of multicultural education and continues with a three-pronged model for addressing multicultural competencies: awareness, knowledge, and skills.
• Ethnicity, Race, and Nationality in Education: A Global Perspective. The Rutgers Invitational Symposium on Education Series
  This volume contains 12 papers originally presented at the 14th Rutgers Invitational Symposium on Education in 1999. The symposium explored contemporary issues of ethnic, cultural, and national identities and their influence on the social construction of identity.
• Evaluation of the Information, Communication and Technology Capabilities and E-Learning
  This study from the University of North London examines diversified support and relevance to improve instruction and reduce dropout rates for multicultural students. Discusses the use of information and communication technology to provide online student support; virtual integration of the curriculum; individual learning styles; and Web sites.
• Examining the Role of Critical Inquiry for Transformative Practices: Two Joint Case Studies of Multicultural Teacher Education
  Examined how an emphasis on critical inquiry in a multicultural preservice teacher education course influenced teachers' understandings and practices. Results from two case studies suggest that multicultural teacher education needs to not only include, but also extend beyond, particular courses to more expanded venues that provide opportunities for collaboration and critical reflection in action over time.
• Excelencia Para Todos--Excellence for All: The Progress of Hispanic Education and the Challenges of the New Century. Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by U.S. Secretary of Education, Richard W. Riley (Bell Multicultural High School, Washington, DC, March 15, 2000)
  The main theme of Richard W. Riley's speech is the importance of quality education to America's Latino community.
• Experiencing Things Not Seen: Educative Events Centered on a Study of "Shabanu."
  Describes the theoretical foundations, classroom context, and activities of a multicultural literature study (based on S. F.
• Exploring Culture, Language and the Perception of the Nature of Science
  Explores the views some First Nations (Cree) and Euro-Canadian grade 7-level students in Manitoba have about the nature of science. Uses both qualitative and quantitative instruments to explore student views.
• Exploring Values through Literature, Multimedia, and Literacy Events: Making Connections
  The essays collected in this book highlight the important links among home, school, and global society that will help students understand one another and contribute to a cohesive community. They describe the work of educators and children, and the materials and strategies they use to explore values such as compassion, caring, sharing, respect, and appreciation of cultural differences.
• Facilitating Culturally Integrated Behaviors among Allied Health Students
  Cultural integration, an ongoing process of cultural awareness, competence, and action, is essential for allied health professionals. It may be fostered through a curriculum emphasizing critical reflection and active and experiential learning, including immersion in other cultures.
• Final Report on the Multicultural/Diversity Assessment Project
  The Emporia State University Multicultural/Diversity Project developed a set of assessment instruments and a model evaluation plan to assess multicultural/diversity (MCD) outcomes in teacher education and general education programs. Assessment instruments and techniques were constructed to evaluate the impact of coursework on student attitudes, knowledge, and performance skills.
• Flocabulary
  a hip-hop approach to vocabulary.
• Focus on Elementary (Ages 7-10): A Quarterly Newsletter for the Education Community, 1999-2000
  This document consists of four issues of a newsletter for educators at the elementary level. Each issue features articles on a specific theme along with regular columns.
• Foundations of Education, Volume I: History and Theory of Teaching Children and Youths with Visual Impairments. Second Edition
  This text, one of two volumes on the instruction of students with visual impairments, focuses on the history and theory of teaching such students.
• From Our Readers: Preparing Preservice Teacher Candidates for Leadership in Equity
  Describes the importance of moving beyond identity labels like Black, Hispanic, or female to examine how gender intersects with other social memberships like race and class. By considering more inclusive, individualized ways of viewing multiculturalism, educators can forge more meaningful conversations with students about diversity and equity.
• Fulfilling the Promise of Access and Opportunity: Collaborative Community Colleges for the 21st Century. New Expeditions: Charting the Second Century of Community Colleges. Issues Paper No. 3
  This document is part of the New Expeditions series, published by the American Association of Community Colleges. Addressed specifically in this paper is the need for collaboration within and between community colleges if they are to fulfill their role as democratic agencies concerned with access and equity issues.
• Gathered Around the Fire of the Heart
  Examines the sacredness of language from the early history of language, and how poetry from all times and cultures connects and heals. Describes the author's work in a poets-in-the-schools program and how the children's poems healed the heart of a Chumash Indian elder.
• General and Special Educators' Perceptions of Teaching Strategies for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
  A survey of 403 general and special education teachers found most had received no training in multicultural education even though most reported that cultural knowledge would help them understand the influence of their students' verbal and nonverbal learning/behavioral styles. Knowledge about the language of multicultural students and child language development were cited as important training needs.
• Give Us a Taste of Your Quality! A Report from the Heartland on the Role of the Arts in Multicultural Settings
  Discusses the role of the arts in multicultural education, explaining how diverse students react to and need support in the arts in order to succeed. Focuses on the efforts of urban elementary and secondary schools in Madison, Wisconsin.
• Global Education for Ocean County College
  This paper presents a rationale for establishing a global education curriculum at Ocean County College (OCC) (New Jersey) and proposes a workable curriculum, along with suggestions for implementation. The author distinguishes between multicultural and global education--both curricula address issues of cultural diversity, human rights, and prejudice reduction, but multiculturalism is primarily concerned with these issues in a single country context and global education makes cross-national comparisons.
• Global Perspectives for Young Readers: Easy Readers and Picture Book Read-Alouds from around the World
  Discusses how early childhood educators can use reading lessons as part of a global curriculum and help children develop an understanding of other peoples and their customs. Includes criteria for choosing international books as early reader selections, and annotated lists of picture books for beginning readers, chapter books for young readers, and translated books for read-aloud sessions.
• GlobaLinks: Resources for World Studies, Grades K-8
  For years, criticism of education in the United States has focused on the nation as ethnocentric. Schools can maximize their students' multicultural experiences by developing curricula that heighten global consciousness and responsibility.
• Globalizing Instructional Materials: Guidelines for Higher Education
  Discusses issues in training students to be culturally literate and the process for creating, designing, and developing cross-cultural (globalized) instructional materials. Defines terms associated with globalizing instructional materials and the process of adapting these materials to other cultures.
• Going Beyond Words
  Reflects on three articles in this themed issue written by classroom teachers, describing how and why they incorporate the arts into the heart of their language arts instruction. Concludes that sign systems and the arts are powerful tools for thinking, whether they are used differently, to represent specific information, or aesthetically, to create vicarious, lived-through experiences.
• Greening School Grounds: Creating Habitats for Learning
  Schoolyard greening is an excellent way to promote hands-on, interdisciplinary learning about the environment through projects that benefit schools and increase green space and biodiversity in communities. This book features step-by-step instructions for numerous schoolyard projects from tree nurseries to school composting to native plant gardens, along with ideas for enhancing learning by addressing diverse student needs.
• Growing Partnerships for Rural Special Education. Conference Proceedings (San Diego, California, March 29-31, 2001).
  The 2001 conference proceedings of the American Council on Rural Special Education (ACRES) contains 62 papers and summaries of presentations concerned with issues in rural special education. The papers are presented in 12 categories: impacting governmental policy, at risk, collaborative education models, early childhood, gifted, multicultural, parents and families, preservice and inservice teacher education, technology, transition, and other.
• Harriet Rohmer on New Voices and Visions in Multicultural Literature
  Presents an interview with Harriet Rohmer, founder of Children's Book Press, an independent publishing house founded in 1975 dedicated to publishing bilingual children's books authored and illustrated by writers and artists of American minority communities. Discusses how she selects books for publication, books to be published soon, and the importance of all children seeing reflections of themselves in books.
• High-stakes assessments in reading: A position statement of the International Reading Association.
  International Reading Association presents its statement on high-stakes testing. States implications of high-stakes testing on students and tells why using tests for high-stakes decisions can cause problems.
• Home Literacy Experiences and Their Relationship to Bilingual Preschoolers' Developing English Literacy Abilities: An Initial Investigation
  Forty-three Puerto Rican mother-child dyads in Head Start programs, grouped according to whether the children had learned Spanish and English from birth (n=28) or Spanish from birth and English in Head Start (n=15) participated in a study of home literacy experiences and emerging English literacy abilities. Results found that literacy development would benefit from increased exposure to literacy materials and events.
• Hong Kong Students' Attitudes Towards Cantonese, Putonghua, and English After the Change of Sovereignty
  Examined the attitudes of Hong Kong secondary school students toward English, Cantonese, and Putonghua. Compared the language attitudes of two main groups of Hong Kong students, middle class elite and working class low achievers.
• Honoring Our Roots and Branches...Our History and Future. Proceedings of the Annual Midwest Research to Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing, and Community Education (19th, Madison, Wisconsin, September 27-29, 2000)
  These proceedings consist of 44 presentations in these categories: distance education and evaluation; community issues and research; multicultural issues and research; teaching and learning; research methods; and organizational development.
• How to differentiate instruction in mixed ability classroom
  Greater number of students are diagoned with attention deficit and related disorder, so in todays diversed classroom setting it has become important to understand the diffferentiating teaching methods.
• Identity and Learning: Student Affairs' Role in Transforming Higher Education
  Self-definition plays a crucial role in complex learning. This article offers a framework for making identity central in learning to promote learning and self-authorship.
• Impact of Sociodemographic Characteristics on the Identification Rates of Minority Students as...
  Investigates the relationship between ethnic disproportionality and sociodemographic factors among minority students with mental retardation in the United States. Sociodemographic factors associated with mental retardation; Efforts exerted by the U.S.
• Impediments to Minority Student Learning
  Describes a two-part study involving 125 minority female students, 14 faculty members and 35 textbooks that explored the kinds of images minority students found in their textbooks. Results indicated that the exclusion, omission, or misrepresentation through images directly impacted student learning as well as student career choices.
• Implementing IDEA: A Guide for Principals
  Implementing IDEA: A Guide for Principals is offered as a tool for ensuring that all children with disabilities learn, and that principals have the supports they need to implement IDEA.
• Improving teaching, improving learning: Linking professional development to improved student achievement.
  Professional development is important in raising student achievement, because better teaching results in better student learning.
• Included in Sociology: Learning Climates That Cultivate Racial and Ethnic Diversity
  This collection of essays is designed for the faculty member and others who care about the retention and success of students of color in gateway courses in Sociology. The book examines assumptions about diversity and teaching and learning and provides strategies for enacting learning environments that are more inclusive and conducive to the success of all students.
• Indiana's Best Practices Celebrating Diversity: Many Communities...One Indiana. A Resource Manual of Diversity Programs & Activities. Update 2000
  This updated resource manual of racial diversity programs and activities should help promote racial reconciliation and understanding among diverse communities.
• Integration of Technology into the Classroom: Case Studies
  This book contains the following case studies on the integration of technology in education.
• Issues for the 21st Century
  This publication is dedicated to social studies education at all levels. Articles and teaching ideas in this issue are: "Defending Multicultural Education, Academic Freedom, and Democracy in the Wake of 9/11/01" (A.
• Journal of the Pennsylvania Counseling Association, 2000-2001
  These two journal issues are dedicated to the study and development of the counseling profession. The journal's emphasis on multiculturalism is evident in the article selected for this volume.
• Journey toward Sensitivity: An Examination of Multicultural Literature
  Uses the portrayal of Native Americans in children's literature to describe the impact of racially biased reading materials and argue for greater cultural sensitivity. Offers tips for identifying culturally insensitive books.
• Lafayette Geography Institute, 2000.
  This document contains 7 geography lesson plans. Each lesson plan describes the purpose, lists national geography standards, explains the setup, and suggests teaching strategies.
• Language Learners as Ethnographers. Modern Languages in Practice 16
  This book describes a new approach to teaching and learning cultural studies. Borrowing the idea of ethnography from anthropologists, it argues that language students can be taught methods for investigating the cultural and social patterns of interaction and the values and beliefs that account for them.
• Language Policy and Pedagogy: Essays in Honor of A. Ronald Walton
  This edited volume brings together 14 diverse articles dealing with various aspects of language policy and pedagogy. Chapter titles include the following: "Language Practice, Language Ideology, and Language Policy" (Bernard Spolsky and Elana Shohamy); "The Status Agenda in Corpus Planning" (Joshua A.
• Learning and Teaching about Cultural Universals in Primary-Grade Social Studies
  Argues that topical units on cultural universals are well suited for introducing primary grade students to social studies, although the units need to be more powerful than those in leading textbooks. Notes a study supporting the feasibility of cultural universals units in first and second grade classrooms.
• Learning Interdependence: A Case Study of the International/Intercultural Education of First-Year College Students
  This volume asserts that international and intercultural experiences are powerful vehicles for first-year college students to learn the perspectives and skills necessary to function interdependently in a rapidly changing and complex world. This thesis is developed through an in-depth case study of efforts to provide such learning opportunities in a project called the First-Year Intercultural Experience at Hartwick College, a 4-year liberal arts and sciences institution in Oneonta, New York.
• Listen to Their Teachers' Voices: Effective Reading Instruction for Fourth Grade African American Students
  Identifies effective teaching methods that can enhance the reading skills of fourth grade African American students. Notes that the teachers identified independent reading and writing, phonics and vocabulary, teacher modeling, the use of multicultural materials, engagement of parental involvement, incorporating prior knowledge, and cooperative learning as the methods they believed were most effective with the group.
• Listening/Nonverbal Communication Training
  Proposes that cultural understanding and communication skills provide frameworks for developing tolerance and understanding. Analyzes the influence of listening/nonverbal communication training on an individual's level of multicultural sensitivity with applications for business and education.
• Literacy & Libraries: Learning from Case Studies
  This book presents 22 personal narratives in which library directors, program administrators, teachers, tutors, librarians, and adult learners explain firsthand how literacy programs at libraries across the United States have changed people's lives.
• Literature and Lives: A Response-Based, Cultural Studies Approach to Teaching English
  Telling stories from secondary and college English classrooms, this book explores the new possibilities for teaching and learning generated by bringing together reader-response and cultural-studies approaches. The book connects William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and other canonical figures to multicultural writers, popular culture, film, testimonial, politics, history, and issues relevant to contemporary youth.
• Local theories of teacher change: The pedagogy of district policies and programs.
  Examines district officials' theories about teacher learning and change, identifying and elaborating three perspectives – behaviorist, situated, and cognitive – based on a study of nine school districts. The behaviorist perspective on teacher learning dominated among the district officials in the study.
• Making science accessible to all: results of a design experiment in inclusive classrooms.
  Findings from study of four elementary classrooms indicated that with advanced instructional strategies to support special needs students, all students demonstrated significant learning gains, and that special needs and low-achieving students in three of four classes showed changes in understanding comparable to those of normally achieving students.
• Making the Journey: Being and Becoming a Teacher of English Language Arts. Second Edition
  This book takes a look at the realities of classroom life, offering specific suggestions for dealing effectively with today's students. More than a compendium of activities, the first edition of the book introduced educators to a philosophy of teaching illustrated and implemented by workable, realistic techniques.
• Math and Science Across Cultures: Activities and Investigations from the Exploratorium
  Throughout history, people of all cultures have used math and science in everyday life and contributed a wealth of ideas to these disciplines. However, math and science textbooks generally focus on the contributions of Western culture.
• Math on the Menu: Real-Life Problem Solving For Grades 3-5. Teacher's Guide
  There is plenty of "math on the menu" in the series of activities featured in this book. Students help the Rosada family start a Mexican restaurant featuring a variety of tostadas.
• Meeting the Needs of English Language Learners
  Presents key questions reflecting research in first/second language acquisition and whole language principles: is curriculum organized around "big" questions?; are students involved in authentic reading and writing?; are students given choices?; is content meaningful?; do students work collaboratively?; do students read, write, speak, and listen during learning?; are students' primary languages and cultures valued?; and do learning activities build self-esteem? (RS).
• Mentors in Medicine
  Introduces the Health Sciences and Technology Academy (HSTA) which was created by West Virginia University for secondary school students to address the shortage of minorities pursuing science careers. Aims to improve science and mathematics education and increase the college attendance rate among underrepresented students.
• Mismatch: historical perspectives on schools and students who don't fit them
  Discusses how the differences in school environment and education affect student learning. Argues that educators should focus on adapting the school better to the child, to avoid a mismatch in the standards movement addressing social inequalities that extend beyond the classroom.
• Mixed Media: A Roundup of CD-ROM and Electronic Products
  Highlights multicultural materials that are useful for teaching students of all ages (elementary through college level). These include such CD-ROM products as "The Ellis Island Experience" and "The Civil Rights Movement in the United States" and such World Wide Web-based products as "Diversify Your World," "American Slavery: A Complete Autobiography," and "International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text." (SM).
• Mrs. Boyd’s fifth-grade inclusive classroom: A study of multicultural teaching strategies.
  Presents a case study of one exemplary multicultural fifth-grade classroom teacher provides educators with accommodation activities that support and encourage all students without limiting or impeding their academic or social development.
• Multicultural Concerns: A Foundations Perspective and Discussion for Teacher Educators
  Old educational paradigms may not be the best approach to reconfiguring educational programs for the 21st century. Demographic projections for school-age children for the 21st century reveal an ethnically and linguistically rich population of students.
• Multicultural Conflict Resolution: Development, Implementation and Assessment of a Program for Third Graders
  Presents an intervention that outlines the formulation, implementation, and assessment of one counselor's attempt to increase student skills in the area of conflict resolution through a 6-week, curriculum-based, conflict resolution program for third-graders. Program evaluation indicates that it was successful in challenging students' conceptualization of conflict, shifting their associations with the word from negative to positive.
• Multicultural Education outside the Classroom: Building the Capacity of HIV Prevention Peer Educators
  Describes the Wisconsin Youth HIV Prevention Institution, a program to enhance HIV prevention peer education for reaching youth at high risk, focusing on its intensive multicultural education and empowerment approach. Summarizes evaluation findings related to participation in the program and discusses implications of the program for HIV prevention peer education and other forms of multicultural education.
• Multicultural Education: A Caring-Centered, Reflective Approach
  This book for teachers presents stories and real-life examples that illustrate key concepts of culture, discrimination, and social justice and how they can affect diverse classrooms. It is written in a conversational style within a caring-centered framework, and it discusses culture's role in the learning process and in students' identity development.
• Multicultural Education: Issues, Policies, and Practices. Research in Multicultural Education and International Perspectives, Volume 1
  This book presents recent research findings on different aspects of multicultural education, informing teachers of the issues, policies, and new approaches prevalent around the world.
• Multicultural Education: Powerful Tool for Preparing Future General and Special Educators
  This article argues that multicultural education is a powerful and necessary tool for preparing future general and special educators to provide services to students with disabilities from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. It presents ideas for educators willing to assist multicultural learners in maximizing their fullest potential in inclusive settings.
• Multicultural Perceptions of 1st-Year Elementary Teachers' Urban, Suburban, and Rural Student Teacher Placements
  Investigated the effects of student teaching in urban, suburban, and rural settings on beginning teachers' attitudes about success, multiculturalism, and interactions with diverse parents. Noted the effect of a program for facilitating school-home relationships and improving urban education.
• Multicultural Teacher Education for the 21st Century
  Discusses multicultural preservice teacher education, recommending that preservice programs be more deliberate about preparing white Americans for teaching diverse students because of the increasing division between white teachers and minority students. The paper examines preservice teachers' fear of diversity and resistance to dealing with race and racism, proposing a two-part program for preparing teachers to work with diverse students.
• Multiculturalism and Severe Disabilities
  This article discusses the need for educators to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to help students with severe disabilities from mainstream groups to develop cross-cultural knowledge, values, and competencies. It outlines goals for multicultural understanding for educational researches, for teacher educators, and for school leaders and teachers.
• Multiculturalism and the Mission of Liberal Education
  This paper examines attempts at four prototypical undergraduate liberal arts colleges to build community based on liberal educational principles and values, and investigates liberal education's ability to meet the challenges of multiculturalism.
• Multiculturalism, Diversity, and African American College Students: Receptive, Yet Skeptical?
  Hypothesized that African American college students with higher racial self-esteem would be more open to diversity and multiculturalism than students with lower racial self-esteem. Surveys indicated that most students valued diversity-oriented courses, though most also believed that diversity courses were biased against African Americans.
• Multiliteracies and Life Transitions: Language, Literacy and Numeracy Issues in Aboriginal Health Worker Training--An Investigation
  The issues of language, literacy, and numeracy (LL&N) in Aboriginal health worker (AHW) training in Australia were explored to determine how these issues interrelate, overlap, and influence the types of literacy practices required in indigenous contexts.
• Multiple Cultures, Multiple Literacies
  Describes the author's work in his fifth-grade class as he helps his students understand the importance that culture plays in their representations of meaning. Shows how opportunities to transcend language by using other sign systems allow multiculturalism to flourish.
• Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2000
  This publication presents seven articles concerned with the education of students with disabilities or special talents who also have cultural or linguistic differences.
• Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2002
  This issue of "Multiple Voices" contains the following articles: (1) "A Self-Study of Diversity: Preservice Teachers' Beliefs Revealed through Classroom Practices" (Donna M. Sobel and others), which presents the results of seven preservice teachers' self-study that reveals ways in which the teachers' beliefs regarding diversity issues were realized in their classroom interactions, practices, and observations; (2) "African American Parents' Involvement in Their Children's Special Education Programs" (Courtney Davis and others), which examines the empirical literature on parental involvement and finds insufficient reporting of sample selection, data collection, and data analysis procedures; (3) "Effects of Failure Free Reading on Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students with Learning Disabilities" (Grace England and others), which presents findings that indicate using the Failure Free Reading Program improved letter and word identification, word attack skills, and reading comprehension; (4) "Native Americans and Augmentative and Alternative Communication Issues" (Sheela Stuart and Howard P.
• Native Americans Today: Resources and Activities for Educators, Grades 4-8
  This activity guide seeks to dispel misrepresentations of Native Americans and build understanding among cultures by offering a hands-on approach to dissecting the whys and hows of institutionalized racism and by painting a realistic and diverse picture of modern American Indians.
• Nonnative English Speakers: Language Bigotry in English Mainstream Classrooms
  Examines and discusses ways in which both subtle and blatant bigotry toward nonnative speakers of English is present in departments of English. Illustrates how unfounded and inaccurate beliefs about English language proficiency create a hostile climate for a new population of students.
• On-Line Multicultural Literature Discussions: How This Discourse Community Informs Teacher Educators
  This study investigated the effects of computer-based technologies on literature discussions between preservice teachers and eighth graders. Most participating preservice teachers were preparing to work with students in literacy development.
• On...Transformed, Inclusive Schools: A Framework To Guide Fundamental Change in Urban Schools
  This report presents a systemic change framework for creating inclusive urban schools. It explains that if a key feature of reform focuses on multicultural education as a fundamental social and educational transformation, then opportunities for all students to achieve educational equity will be realized in U.S.
• Our Souls To Keep: From Surface to Deep in Literary Representations Regarding Race
  Presents literary reviews that reveal deeper issues to consider when exploring beyond the surface and reflecting on the racial schisms pervading the United States. The literature examines: a conference on the relationship of education and African American self-concept; the role of black mothers in raising their sons; slave novels; a critical review of speaking; and the Ebonics debate in education.
• OVERREPRESENTATION OF MINORITY STUDENTS IN SPECIAL EDUCATION.
  The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the professional literature related to the overrepresentation of minority students in special education programs, and of the remedies used in court ordered remediation programs. Specifically, it reviews reasons for overrepresentation of minority students in classes for students with various learning disabilities and the under representation of these same students in classes for students who are gifted.
• Pacific Resources for Education and Learning Fact Sheet.
  Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL) is a nonprofit corporation that serves schools in 10 Pacific island political entities, whose affiliation with the United States ranges from statehood to free association. PREL's main office is in Honolulu, Hawaii, with service centers in American Samoa; the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; the Federated States of Micronesia (Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap); Guam; the Republic of the Marshall Islands; and the Republic of Palau.
• Pedagogy of Language Learning in Higher Education: An Introduction. Advances in Foreign Language Pedagogy, Volume 2
  This second volume in the series "Advances in Foreign and Second Language Pedagogy" is an introduction to the pedagogy of language learning in higher education focusing on learner motivation, classroom environments, relationships for learning, and the future of language education.
• Pedagogy, Politics, and Schools: Films about Social Justice in Education
  Reviews six films about issues related to multicultural and social justice education in the United States: "It's Elementary: Talking about Gay Issues in School"; "Starting Small: Teaching Children Tolerance"; "In Whole Honor?"; "Children Talk about AIDS"; "Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary"; and "'Good Morning Miss Toliver.'" (SM).
• Perceptions versus Preferences: Adult International Students' Teaching-Learning Experiences in an American University
  International students' perceptions of and preferences for the teaching-learning process in a U.S. university was assessed.
• Preparing English Teachers To Teach Diverse Student Populations: Beliefs, Challenges, Proposals for Change
  Argues a need for in-depth consideration of principles and practices to prepare teachers for classrooms they will face in the future. Notes problems created by the disparity between increasing student diversity and their overwhelmingly white, female English/language arts teachers.
• Preparing Special Educators To Meet the Needs of Linguistically Diverse Students with Disabilities. Final Report
  This final report describes the activities and outcomes of a University of Northern Colorado project designed to enhance programs for preparing teachers to work with students with sensory impairments from linguistically diverse backgrounds. Project accomplishments included: (1) financially supporting 18 trainees who were pursuing a graduate degree in 1 of the 3 low-incidence programs at the University of Northern Colorado (hearing, vision, or multiple disabilities); (2) developing a course that introduced issues related to the educational needs of students with low-incidence disabilities who come from multicultural communities; (3) infusing competencies addressing the needs of linguistically diverse students with low-incidence disabilities within existing courses; (4) targeting recruiting efforts to attract qualified bilingual trainees, or trainees interested in developing second language competences and teaching students from non-English speaking communities; (5) conducting a multi-state needs assessment of current practices and competencies needed by teachers working with linguistically diverse students with low-incidence disabilities; (6) supplementing a resource library with assessments and instructional materials designed for linguistically diverse students; and (7) establishing an advisory committee to guide the project in achieving its goals.
• President's Report on Strategic Action Areas and Initiatives, April, 2002.
  This paper outlines the strategic action areas and initiatives of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) for 2002. The six action areas outlined are: (1) national and international recognition and advocacy for community colleges; (2) learning and accountability; (3) leadership development; (4) economic and workforce development; (5) connectedness across AACC membership; and (6) international and intercultural education.
• Principals and Standards for School Mathematics.
  This book updates the messages of NCTM's previous Standards and shows how students' learning should grow across four grade bands-pre-K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12. It incorporates a clear set of principles and an increased focus on how students' knowledge grows as shown by recent research.
• Principles and Practices of Democracy in the Education of Social Studies Teachers. Civic Learning in Teacher Education
  This collection of essays was derived from a meeting sponsored by the Center for Civic Education (California) and conducted by the Social Studies Development Center (Indiana). The meeting's central theme was education for democratic citizenship of prospective social studies teachers.
• Problem-based learning: what and how do students learn?
  Provides an exploration of the goals of PBL and discusses the nature of learning in PBL and examines the empirical evidence supporting it.
• Proceedings of the Annual Midwest Research-to-Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing, and Community Education (21st, DeKalb, Illinois, October 9-11, 2002)
  This document contains 41 papers and 11 poster session presentations from a conference on research-to-practice in adult, continuing, and community education.
• Proceedings of the Midwest Philosophy of Education Society, 1999-2000
  This proceedings of the Midwest Philosophy of Education Society contain two presidential addresses: "Separating School and State: An Analytical Polemic" (D. G.
• Processes and Outcomes in the European Schools Model of Multilingual Education
  In the European Schools model, linguistically and culturally diverse students receive most of their education in their first language but must learn at least two other languages. Content teaching of other subjects in the target languages and the regular mixing of different language groups promote multilingual proficiency and cultural pluralism at no cost to academic development.
• Promoting Academic Literacy with Urban Youth through Engaging Hip-Hop Culture
  Suggests that teachers in new century schools must find ways to forge meaningful relationships with students who come from different worlds, while also helping these students develop academic skills and the skills needed to become critical citizens in a multicultural democracy. (SG).
• Promoting Multicultural Awareness through Dramatic Play Centers
  Although many teachers acknowledge that language and culture are critical components of children's development, actually incorporating materials representative of children's cultures remains a problem. This article explains how the dramatic play center is a natural place to promote multicultural awareness in the classroom and offers suggestions for materials and activities.
• Promoting Multiculturalism in Developmental Education
  Asserts that the teaching profession needs to recognize the natural connections between multicultural and developmental education. Presents eight steps developmental educators can take to promote pluralism, including (1) establishing a clear link between cultural pluralism and institutional and programmatic mission and goals; (2) striving for diversity at all levels; and (3) embedding multiculturalism in the curriculum.
• Providing a Culturally Relevant Curriculum for Hispanic Children
  A culturally relevant curriculum lets Hispanic students learn from a familiar cultural base and connect new knowledge to their own experiences, thus empowering them to build on personal knowledge. Teachers must understand Hispanic culture to help students embrace the authentic information they receive.
• Public high school dropouts and completers from the common core of data: School Year 2000-01.
  Presents the number and percentage of students dropping out of and completing public school (among states that reported dropouts) for the 2000–01 school year.
• Race in the College Classroom: Pedagogy and Politics
  This collection of essays by college instructors who teach in the humanities, social sciences, science, and education, addresses the challenges faced by professors who believe that teaching responsibly requires an honest examination of race.
• Reaching TESOL Teachers through Technology
  The preparation of qualified teachers with knowledge and skills in the areas of English as a Second Language (ESL) and technology is an important issue in urban educational reform. This paper addresses components that one teacher preparation program is implementing in training multicultural, urban public school teachers in this critical shortage area.
• Recognizing and Responding to Cultural Differences in the Education of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners.
  Cultural differences between educators and culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students can have negative effects on the education of CLD learners. Much of the special education literature pertaining to the education of CLD learners has focused on biased assessment practices that lead to overrepresentation.
• Reconceptualizing Literacy in the New Age of Multiculturalism and Pluralism. A Volume in Language, Literacy, and Learning
  The 17 chapters in this collection of papers include: (1) "Frameworks for Understanding Multicultural Literacies" (Georgia Earnest Garcia and Arlette Ingram Sillis); (2) "Multicultural Belief: A Global or Domain-Specific Construct? An Analysis of Four Case Studies" (Jyotsna Pattnaik); (3) "Monocultural Literacy: The Power of Print, Pedagogy, and Epistemological Blindness" (Dawnene D. Hammerberg and Carl Grant); (4) "Liberating Literacy" (Margaret C.
• Reflections on Multiculturalism in Developmental Education
  Reports on an effort to better understand the impasse and create conditions for constructive local discussions and reforms relating to multiculturalism. Reports how a group of developmental education professionals in a large, interdisciplinary developmental education unit understand multiculturalism.
• Reimagining Race in Education: A New Paradigm from Psychology
  Discusses paradigms underlying current approaches to multicultural education, introducing a typology of philosophical assumptions that has been used to classify approaches to multiculturalism in the field of psychology; discussing racial identity theory as an important psychological component of a race-based perspective for understanding race and culture in education; and examining how racial identity affects educational thought and practice. (SM).
• Reinvented inclusive schools: A framework to guide fundamental change
  This report presents a systemic change framework for creating inclusive urban schools. It explains that if a key feature of reform focuses on multicultural education as a fundamental social and educational transformation, then opportunities for all students to achieve educational equity will be realized in U.S.
• Reliability and Validity of Three Measures of Multicultural Competency
  Examines the reliability and validity of three measures of multicultural competency, the Multicultural Counseling Awareness Scale: Form B (MCAS), the Multicultural Awareness-Knowledge-and Skills Survey (MAKSS), and the Survey of Graduate Students' Experiences with Diversity (GSEDS). The findings generally support the psychometric soundness of these surveys, with some important exceptions.
• Reviews
  Contains 130 reviews of works of interest to the multi-cultural educator or anyone interested in cultural awareness arranged under broad subject categories of humanities, biography, history, social sciences, reference, juvenile works, and nonprint materials. Includes fiction and nonfiction.
• Safeguarding Our Children: An Action Guide
  
• School Choice and Social Justice
  This book presents a view of what constitutes social justice in education, arguing that justice requires that all children have a real opportunity to become autonomous people, and that the state use a criterion of educational equality for deploying educational resources.
• School Health Education in a Multicultural Society. ERIC Digest
  School health education needs to build a broad base of awareness, tolerance, and sensitivity to different expressions of healthy behavior while maintaining scientific accuracy. This can only be accomplished through exposing children to the various types of health knowledge found in different cultures.
• Second Language Study in Elementary Schools
  To help students compete in a global economy, American teachers must begin teaching children a second language at an early age. Describes the advantages of learning a second language at the elementary school level, highlighting three currently-used language programs (immersion, Foreign Language in the Elementary Schools, and Foreign Language Experience) that facilitate second language learning.
• Service-Learning in Teacher Education: Enhancing the Growth of New Teachers, Their Students, and Communities
  This book provides teacher educators, administrators, practicing teachers who work with preservice teachers, policymakers, and researchers with information on the conceptual, research, and application areas of service-learning in preservice teacher education. The collection of papers offers teacher educators' thoughts about ways to enhance the usefulness of service-learning in preservice teacher preparation.
• Serving Children in Biracial/Bi-Ethnic Families: A Supplementary Diversity Curriculum for the Training of Child Care Providers.
  Because of increasing numbers of children from biracial/bi-ethnic families attending childcare programs and increasing awareness of cultural diversity, and in recognition of the connection between a child's success and his or her racial/ethnic self-esteem, this curriculum is intended to help childcare providers integrate activities and materials that focus specifically on biracial/bi-ethnic children into existing multicultural or other curricula.
• Sharing the Wisdom of Practice: Schools That Optimize Literacy Learning for All Students
  The No Child Left Behind Act leaves no doubt about the importance of effective reading instruction, setting a national goal for every child to become a proficient reader by the third grade. With 70% of fourth graders from low income families currently unable to read at even a basic level, teachers face a daunting challenge.
• Significance of Ethnomathematical Research: Towards International Cooperation with the Developing Countries
  Development assistance was started for the sake of reconstruction of Europe shattered by World War II, and turned its attention to north- south problems starting at the Development Decade by the United Nations in 1960. In spite of all the efforts the international community has made, the situation for poor countries seems to have worsened and many insurmountable problems still lie ahead.
• Sogolon Marionettes. Cue Sheet for Teachers
  This performance guide is designed to help teachers prepare students to see the Sogolon Marionettes performing one of two stories from the West African country of Mali.
• SPECIAL EDUCATION OR RACIAL SEGREGATION: Understanding Variation in the Representation of Black Students in Educable Mentally Handicapped Programs.
  The disproportionate representation of black students in special education programs has been well documented, yet explanations for the overrepresentation are rare. Using a unique sample of U.S.
• Standards, accountability and school reform
  Discusses the unintended outcome of academic standards, accountability reporting and school reform. Specifically the impact of academic performance rating on student learning is addressed.
• State Variation in Gender Disproportionality in Special Education.
  Gender disproportionality in special education has been apparent for many years, reflected in male-to-female ratios that range from about 1.5:1 to 3.5:1. The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent of disproportionate representation for the disability conditions of learning disability (LD), serious emotional disturbance (SED), and mental retardation (MR) at the state, regional, and national levels.
• Storytelling for Young Children in a Multicultural World
  Advocates storytelling as a powerful resource to promote an understanding of racial and ethnic diversity. Addresses issues of selection criteria including elements of character development, prejudice reduction, authority and authorship, and language.
• Strategies for Improving the Educational Outcomes of Latinas. ERIC Digest
  Latinas' educational experiences are affected by the interaction of many factors, including poverty, racism, sexual harassment, and lack of English language proficiency. With guidance from educators, Latina adolescents can make fulfilling educational choices.
• Students’ use of time outside of school: A case for after school programs for urban middle school youth.
  Implications for designing after school programs are discussed in light of the students’ highly unproductive use of time outside school.
• Taylor’s Story: Full Inclusion in Her Neighborhood Elementary School
  Analysis of the experience of a student with severe mental retardation who experienced full inclusion in her neighborhood elementary school revealed that the student’s opportunities for social participation and friendship improved, several adaptive skills were developed, the classroom teacher played a critical role in orchestrating the level of academic inclusion, and transition planning was essential. (Author/JDD).
• Teacher Attitudes to, and Beliefs about, Multicultural Education: Have There Been Changes over the Last Twenty Years?
  This study compared Australian teachers' attitudes toward multicultural education in 2000 with their attitudes in 1979, focusing on: fostering community language maintenance, fostering cultural identity and prestige maintenance, and fostering the benefits of multiculturalism within the community. Participating schools included: those which had been multicultural before the advent of official multicultural policy documents in the late 1970s and continued to be so over the study period; schools that were monocultural during the 20 years; and schools that were transitional during that period.
• Teacher Education: Preparing Teachers for Diversity
  This qualitative case study documents how one student teacher was able to enrich her understanding of what it means to work in a multicultural environment. The study examined what the student teacher considered to be culturally responsive teaching and how she described culturally responsive teaching.
• Teacher Effectiveness and Computer Assessment of Reading: Relating Value Added and Learning Information System Data
  The Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System (TVAAS) has for several years used the largest longitudinally merged database of student achievement data in the USA. to generate estimates of school system, school, and teacher effects on indicators of student learning in a number of subjects, including reading comprehension.
• Teachers' Attitudes toward Multiculturalism and Their Perceptions of the School Organizational Culture
  Examined Israeli teachers' attitudes toward multiculturalism and the relationship of attitudes to perceptions of school organizational culture. Overall, pluralistic attitudes were higher with regard to integrating immigrants into the general society, while assimilationist attitudes predominated when referring to integrating immigrants into education.
• Teaching 4- to 8-Year-Olds: Literacy, Math, Multiculturalism, and Classroom Community
  The next decade will see a dramatic increase in public finding for programs serving young children. Prekindergarten and early elementary programs will received more scrutiny in line with a growing awareness that school success is heavily influenced by the skills and attitudes children have when they enter school and quality of initial school experiences.
• Teaching about Diversity Issues
  Describes a course designed to help preservice teachers get in touch with their own attitudes and beliefs during an assignment that involves individuals from different backgrounds. Students' and teachers' perspectives on this learning experience are presented, focusing on such issues as religion, culture, social class, race, and teenage mothers.
• Teaching about Multicultural and Diversity Issues from an Humanistic Perspective
  This paper describes how one Educational Psychology professor prepares predominantly white, female, middle-class student teachers for experiences with diverse learners by providing a learning task or activity that engages them in new experiences with someone different from themselves. This requires them to integrate principles related to teaching a diverse population of students as discussed in the an educational psychology text.
• Teaching Preservice Teachers To Incorporate the World Wide Web To Promote Respect of Cultural Diversity
  This paper describes how preservice teachers at one university are introduced to computer technology in a nonthreatening manner and how they learn to use the World Wide Web to promote cultural pluralism.
• Teaching Reading to American Indian/Alaska Native Students. ERIC Digest
  This digest summarizes ways to help young American Indian and Alaska Native children become fluent readers. There are numerous reading intervention programs, each with its own set of claims and counter-claims.
• Teaching Sciences: The Multicultural Question Revisited
  Summarizes the case for a universalist approach to science education. Examines the weaknesses of universalism within the limits of human cognitive capabilities in constraining what we understand about nature, a description of reality as a flux, and the disunity of science and the role of culturally different forms and social organization of research shaping the cognitive content of the sciences.
• Teaching to Transform: From Volatility to Solidarity in an Interdisciplinary Family Studies Classroom
  Describes a transformative experience in an interdisciplinary course on multicultural families and the xenophobia they experience. The course was created in collaboration with students in order to achieve a more authentic teaching-learning experience.
• Teaming for Learning Success
  Describes how team teaching benefited two first-grade classrooms, one a bilingual instruction classroom and the other an English instruction classroom, by expanding opportunities for language use and transforming the two classrooms into a more inclusive community of learners as these young children used first and second languages to build bridges to each other and their curriculum. (SR).
• The Archaeology Education Handbook: Sharing the Past with Kids
  This guidebook outlines the culture and structure of schools and shows how archaeologists can work with teachers, curriculum developers, museum professionals, and park rangers to develop useful programs in archaeological education both in the classroom and in informal settings. The essays strive to provide multiple examples of exemplary programming that meets the needs of students, educators, and archaeologists in a realistic, achievable manner.
• The Asset of Cultural Pluralism: An Account of Cross-Cultural Learning in Pre-Service Teacher Education
  Highlights a Canadian preservice educator in a cross- cultural course who worked with student teachers to understand how they encountered one another's diverse attitudes and values, promoting a theory of cross-cultural education that validated experiential interactions as moments of learning. This led to a vision of pluralism where diversity helped create interpretive competence through encounters of difference and self-study.
• The Bilingual Factor.
  Reports on the advocacy of speech language pathologists and audiologists in New Mexico for state recognition for bilingual skills. Goal of a legislation introduced in the New Mexico House of Representatives; Reasons for the overrepresentation of Hispanic and Native American Students in special education; Actions taken by the New Mexico Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
• The Comprehensive Support Model for Culturally Diverse Exceptional Learners: Intervention in an Age of Change
  This article discusses how students, teachers, families, communities, and government can work together using the Comprehensive Support Model (CSM) as an intervention for culturally diverse learners with exceptionalities. Embedded in the discussion are cases that illustrate functions of CSM.
• The Concept of "Ubuntu": Africa's Most Important Contribution to Multicultural Education?
  Examines the African concept of "ubuntu", which indicates an inner state of almost complete humanization and is the essence of community and commonality. Discusses how ubuntu could contribute to multi-cultural education.
• The Digital Divide and Its Implications for the Language Arts. ERIC Digest D153
  In the early years of the Internet, there was an expectation that the availability and easy access to online resources of unparalleled abundance would increase educational equity throughout the socio-economic spectrum. In fact, research suggests that patterns of technology access often mirror existing inequalities rather than mitigate them, and if corrective steps are not taken, technology may worsen rather than solve equity disparities.
• The Effectiveness of Minority Teachers on Minority Student Success
  This paper examines the shortage of minority teachers and explores the high priority that exists among parents, teachers, and the business community to work toward a diversified teaching force, focusing on the U.S. Hispanic population and investigating whether minority teachers in the classroom can result in minority student success in school.
• The Effects of Instructional Media and Ethnocultural Characteristics on Egalitarian and Utilitarian Learning: An Empirical Digest of Controlled Research Studies
  Many educational researchers have harnessed various technologies of instruction to improve the reliability of their egalitarian and utilitarian interventions. Their experiments with adolescents and adults yield important post-course effects, yet, little is known about the effects of instructional media with adolescent or adult multicultural subjects.
• The Fin Art of Science
  Describes how Japanese fish printing brings interdisciplinary science and culture to the classroom. Presents an activity on fish printing that provides students with a tactile, concrete experience and explores what fish feel like and how their scales are arranged.
• The Future of Career
  This book presents many views of the concept of "career," reviewing its past and considering its future in an international context including viewpoints from sociology, psychology, and human resources management.
• The Influence of Teacher Background on the Inclusion of Multicultural Education: A Case Study of Two Contrasts
  Examined the impact of preservice teachers' backgrounds on their multicultural perspectives in teaching secondary social studies, highlighting two student teachers with widely different backgrounds and beliefs. Data from papers, interviews, and observations showed significant differences in perspectives.
• The International Assembly
  Looks at the missions and goals of the International Assembly of the National Council of Teachers of English, a global multicultural network promoting communication and cooperation for international exchange of teaching practices, literature, literacy, curriculum development, and research in English. Suggests some criteria to look at when developing an international curriculum.
• The Intersection of Two Unlikely Worlds: Ratios and Drums
  Describes an activity in which students learn to play three mathematically disparate rhythms on conga drums as an introduction to exploring ratios. (Contains 16 references.) (ASK).
• The Mommy and Daddy Guide to Kindergarten: Real-Life Advice and Tips from Parents and Other Experts. A to Z
  Noting that kindergarten is a time of dramatic change for parents as well as for the kindergarten child, this book presents information on a variety of topics related to kindergarten education. The book is based on interviews with kindergarten teachers, principals, parents, and several experts from higher education involved in kindergarten education.
• The Myth Ritual Theory and the Teaching of Multicultural Literature
  Grapples with the difficult task of helping students differentiate between "myth" as a false belief or lie and "myth" as a cultural phenomenon embedded in sophisticated systems of meaning and action. Outlines four goals for the world mythology unit that help explore this greater sophistication with ninth graders.
• The Politics of Multiculturalism and Bilingual Education: Students and Teachers Caught in the Crossfire
  Essays on political issues in multicultural and bilingual education include: "Cultural Recognition and Civil Discourse in Democracy" (Carlos J. Ovando, Peter McLaren); "The Political Life of Language Metaphors in Writings About Diversity in Education" (Sharon Pugh, Ovando, Nicole Schonemann); "Contesting Whiteness: Critical Perspectives on the Struggle for Social Justice" (McLaren, Juan Munoz); "The War Against Cultural Politics: Beyond Conservative and Neo-Enlightenment Left 'Oppositions': A Critique" (Henry A.
• The Process of Culture Learning within a Foreign Language Program at a Selected Suburban Middle School Site: A Case Study
  This paper examines the effect of foreign language instruction on middle school students' attitudes toward "the other." The primary purpose of this case study is to describe the process of culture learning as it takes place within a middle school foreign language program. Culture learning is a particular type of human learning related to the patterns of human interaction and identification that can be viewed in one of three ways: (1) a series of stages along a road to the development of intercultural communicative skills; (2) a path or continuum leading from ethnocentrism; and (3) as varying stages of awareness, understanding, and acceptance.
• The reciprocal influence of teachers’ learning, teaching practice, school restructuring, and student learning outcomes.
  The longitudinal study indicates that there is a reciprocal relationship among teacher learning, teacher practice, restructuring, and student outcomes. The teacher variables produce practitioner knowledge that benefits student outcomes.
• The Relationship between Ethnolingusitic Identity and English Language Achievement for Native Russian Speakers and Native Hebrew Speakers in Israel
  Investigated the relationship among identity, affective variables, and achievement in English as a foreign language (EFL). Participants were 135 native Hebrew speakers and 53 native Russian speakers studying advanced EFL at an Israeli university.
• The Relationship Between Teacher Effectiveness and Teacher Attitudes Toward Issues Related to Inclusion
  The inclusion of students with special needs in regular education classrooms has become a major focus of current educational reform, and regular education teacher's acceptance is a critical component in how this type of service delivery will play out.
• The Unity Project: Creating a Circle of Awareness
  Research on school restructuring reveals the commitments and competencies that lead to improved outcomes for children, including careful attention to students' emotional development, professional development that emphasizing the reflective study of teaching, culturally responsive and inclusive teaching, and a focus on early language and literacy instruction.
• Three Ways To Achieve a More Equitable Representation of Culturally and Linguistically Different Students in GT Programs
  This article posits that increasing minority teachers in gifted and talented (GT) programs will lead to an increase of minority students in GT programs. Ways to recruit and prepare minority teachers are discussed, as are multicultural and bilingual options for GT programs.
• Through the Eyes of Preservice Teachers: Implications for the Multicultural Journey from Teacher Education
  Investigated definitions and perceptions of multicultural education among 103 preservice early childhood education students. Found that students' definitions illustrated minimal understanding of multicultural education, limited to race and ethnicity.
• Tie-Dye Chemistry
  Presents a multidisciplinary activity for reviewing general chemistry concepts in which students make their own tie-dye cloth. Explores the traditional cultures and customs of Nigeria.
• TIPS Pamphlets for Parents
  This manual presents 99 one-sheet informational brochures designed to improve parenting skills for children with and without disabilities. Each brochure is in a format suitable for duplicating, folding, and distributing.
• To Improve the Academy. Resources for Faculty, Instructional and Organizational Development. Volume 18
  The year 2000 volume of this annual publication contains 18 articles on issues relating to organizational change, collaboration and partnerships, and teaching and faculty development in higher education.
• To See One Another More Clearly: A Pacific Children's Literature Web Project
  Discusses the Pacific Children's Literature Web Project, which uses the Internet as a vehicle for building and sharing the cultures of Guam, Micronesia, and the Pacific. Describes how the website was developed, presents an overview of the site with selected student webpage examples, offers suggestions for developing a website with students, and lists Internet resources.
• Towards Equal Educational Opportunities for Asylum-Seekers
  Interviewed and surveyed staff, asylum-seeking/refugee English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) students, and ESOL students who came for other reasons at one British college, examining why the college's ESOL provision featured separate programs for the two groups. Discusses: the consequences of this divide; teacher discourses; alternative pedagogies; labeling of students; integrated provision; and multicultural education.
• Transforming Cultural Competence into Cross-cultural Efficacy in Women's Health Education
  Discusses the importance of changing cross cultural competence to cross cultural efficacy in the context of addressing health care needs, including those of women. Explores why cross cultural education needs to expand the objectives of women's health education to go beyond traditional values and emphasizes the importance of training for real-world situations.
• Trends & Issues in Secondary English, 2000 Edition
  This publication contains journal essays and book chapters (from publications of the National Council of Teachers of English) dealing with trends and issues in secondary English education.
• Understanding Diversity: How Do Early Childhood Preservice Educators Construct Their Definitions of Diversity
  Because of the increasing diversity of ethnic, cultural, religious, and socioeconomic groups in public schools, the preparation of teachers for multiethnic, multicultural settings is a critical issue facing teacher educators. This study investigated preservice early childhood education students' definitions of multicultural education, sources of information from which they constructed their definitions, how multicultural education was actually implemented in school, and their perceptions of the ways multicultural education should be implemented.
• Understanding Factors that Contribute to Disproportionality
  Inequities in the quality of leadership and instruction in inner-city schools exacerbate efforts to reduce the disproportionality placement of culturally and linguistically diverse students into special education.
• Useful Practices of Inclusive Education: A Preliminary View of What Experts in Moderate to Severe Disabilities are Saying
  We examined the opinions of experts in the field of moderate to severe disabilities on useful practices for inclusive education across nine categories of practices: promoting inclusive values in the school; collaboration between general and special educators; collaboration between educators and related service providers; family involvement; choosing and planning what to teach; scheduling, coordinating, and delivering inclusive services within the school; assessing and reporting student progress on an ongoing basis; instructional strategies; and supporting students with challenging behavior.
• Using Educational Technology To Teach Cultural Assessment
  A module to prepare nursing students to conduct cultural assessments of patients covers multicultural health care environments, genogram skills, self-awareness, theoretical lenses, and cross-cultural communication skills. Instructional materials use multimedia CD-ROM and web-based technologies.
• Using Multicultural Cinderella Books To Engage Students in Comprehension Strategies. Classroom Connections
  Teachers can help their young students build a strong foundation for multicultural understanding by introducing them to stories from many cultures and teaching them to use the cognitive strategies that enable them to comprehend and experience cultures different from their own. Multicultural literature can become a powerful tool that illustrates for children the similarities that exist between cultures and begins to ease cultural prejudice and intolerance.
• Using Popular Films To Challenge Preservice Teachers' Beliefs about Teaching in Urban Schools
  Discusses myths about urban education and education in general that are illustrated in three popular films about inner city schools, focusing on myths about learning, specifically about questions and answers, authenticity, and motivation; teaching, specifically about the center of the learning process; relationships with students, parents, and the institution; and culture. Proceeds from a constructivist approach to learning.
• Voices of Varied Racial Ethnicities Enrolled in Multicultural/Antiracist Education Computer and Telecommunication Courses: Protocols for Multicultural Technology Education Reform
  Two case studies involving graduate education majors illustrate how multicultural/antiracist education and computer-mediated communication can interact successfully and further broaden cultural sensitivity in technology through diverse perceptions and contributions. Facilitating factors included theory-to-practice concepts, Internet dialogue, and student/teacher interactions.
• Weaving Connections: Educating for Peace, Social and Environmental Justice
  This collection of essays by Canadian educators seeks to achieve two goals. First, it documents educational philosophies and approaches that are directed toward equity, justice, peacefulness, and earth awareness.
• What do first-year special education teachers need?
  Analysis of focus groups of beginning special education teachers, teacher mentors, and administrators considers the needs of beginning special education teachers, forms of needed support, content of needed support, and the sense of isolation and need for support. Implications for teacher induction and teacher mentoring programs are drawn, also print and Web resources on mentoring and beginning teachers are identified.
• What Do Teachers Teach? A Survey of America's Fourth and Eighth Grade Teachers. Civic Report
  This report contains results from a survey of U.S. fourth and eighth grade teachers that examined their teaching philosophies, classroom teaching methods and practices, academic expectations for students, and opinions on other education policy issues.
• What Keeps Teachers Going?
  This book examines what can be learned from veteran teachers who not only continue to teach but also manage to remain enthusiastic about it despite deprivation and challenges.
• What Makes a Teacher Education Program Relevant Preparation for Teaching Diverse Students in Urban Poverty Schools? (The Milwaukee Teacher Education Center Model)
  Urban teachers need a set of attributes that enable them to connect with children and youth in poverty and to function in dysfunctional school districts. The Milwaukee Teacher Education Center's (MTEC's) urban mission is to prepare educators to teach in the real world classroom of urban schools.
• When Should Bilingual Students Be in Special Education?
  Focuses on the challenges in special education for culturally and linguistically diverse students in the U.S. Overrepresentation of diverse students in special education; Exclusionary clause included in the definition of learning disabilities under the Individual With Disabilities Education Act; Factors that affect the test performance of diverse students.
• Why invest in professional development schools?
  Professional development schools bridge the gap between university and school- between theory and practice- to promote stuent and teacher learning.
• Women and Minorities in High-Tech Careers. ERIC Digest No. 226
  Women and minorities are underrepresented in technology-related careers for many reasons, including lack of access, level of math and science achievement, and emotional and social attitudes about computer capabilities.
• Women Faculty of Color in the White Classroom: Narratives on the Pedagogical Implications of Teacher Diversity
  This book compiles narratives by women professors of color who examine their classroom experiences in predominantly white U.S. campuses, focusing on the impact of their social positions upon their classroom practices and teaching-learning selves.
• Working with Asian Parents and Families
  Discusses how teachers can enhance the experiences of their Asian American students, examining the importance of understanding Asian American parents and families. Suggestions for working with Asian American parents and families include: respect immediate and extended family members, understand diversity within Asian ethnic groups, consider parents' English proficiency, combat stereotypes, and encourage children to be bicultural and bilingual.
• Write Me In: Inclusive Texts in the Primary Classroom
  As much as any society of people, Australians represent themselves as equals. Yet few Australians are able to fit the widely circulated myths about what is normal, valuable, and desirable in their society.
• Writers of the American West: Multicultural Learning Encounters
  This book focuses on the childhood and young adult experience of 10 of the American West's most intriguing writers. The book presents autobiographical and other primary sources, biographical sketches, teaching guidelines, and numerous curriculum-driven activities to engage young readers in the works of notable people whose lives were shaped by the American West.
• Writing through Modeling: Using Various Scholarship Enhancement Programs and Activities To Build Writing Interest and Skill
  This paper focuses on the efforts at Gardner-Webb University in North Carolina to extend the writing efforts of a writing across the curriculum (WAC) retreat into a greater matrix of scholarly activity, not only in the classroom but outside as well.