Recently added articles from Multicultural Education:
KEEPIN' IT REAL AND RELEVANT: PROVIDING A CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE EDUCATION TO PREGNANT AND PARENTING TEENS
Apr 01, 2008; Roxas, Kevin ... It's crazy; it makes me so mad. The papers and the TV keep saying about how Black girls are always having babies without being married and how we should wait and get married. But who are we supposed to marry, tell me, huh? It's not like there's some great guys sitting around just waiting for us ....
Sustaining Ourselves under Stressful Times: Strategies To Assist Multicultural Educators
Apr 01, 2008; Wong, Penelope; Fernández, Anita E ... Resistance that educators face in teaching multicultural education courses, particularly from preservice teachers, is well documented (Carpenter, 2000; Cochran- Smith 2004; Cruz-Janzen & Taylor, 2004; Horton & Scott, 2004; McGowan, 2000, O'Donnell, 1998; Valerio, 2001,). Much of the ...
THE UNHERALDED HISTORY OF THE LEMON GROVE DESEGREGATION CASE
Apr 01, 2008; Madrid, E Michael ... "Some Mexicans are very bright, but you cannot compare their brightest with the average white children." -A superintendent of schools circa 1940 Mexican School Desegregation: A Different Racial Paradigm An Unheralded Event In 1931, the Southern California ...
Motivations of Parental Involvement in Children's Learning: Voices from Urban African American Families of Preschoolers
Apr 01, 2008; Huang, Grace Hui-Chen; Mason, Kimberly L ... Introduction Importance of Parental Involvement A growing body of research supports the view that parents' attitudes, behaviors, and activities related to children's education influences students' learning and educational success. Specifically, many studies have indicated strong ...
The "Inner City" Is My Blues
Apr 01, 2008; Davis, Danné E ... It made Marvin wanna holler and throw up his hands and Stevie declare people were living just enough. Anyon (1980) revealed its hidden curriculum while Weiner (2003) urges challenges to its placement in the deficit paradigm. It makes me cringe-the term inner ...
Something Every Teacher and Counselor Needs to Know about African-American Children
Apr 01, 2008; Davis, Patrick E ... African Americans inherited a "nigger" culture. The literature posits that African- American culture was founded, formed, and shaped in America where European Americans instilled within African Americans the belief, albeit erroneous, that those of African descent were inferior humans, ...
Teacher Judgment in Identifying Gifted/Talented Students
Apr 01, 2008; Elhoweris, Hala ... Although the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Act of 1988 provides financial assistance to state and local educational agencies and gives highest priority to students from diverse ethnic backgrounds, economically disadvantaged, limited English proficient, and students with ...
Teachers' Perceptions of ELL Education: Potential Solutions to Overcome the Greatest Challenges
Apr 01, 2008; Batt, Ellen G ... Since implementation of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) mandates, much attention has been focused on the education of the rapidly growing English language learners (ELLs) in U.S. schools. Disaggregated accountability reports for subgroups are required as a result of NCLB. Schools must report yearly ...
Elementary Preservice Teachers' Utilization of English Language Development Instructional Strategies in the Teaching of Science to English Learners
Apr 01, 2008; Gibbons, Beatrice ... Introduction The majority of educators agree that there is a pressing need for dramatic changes in the way we deliver instruction to schoolchildren, particularly English learners. English learners face the daunting task of learning the academic curriculum and a new language concurrently ....
Bridges to Cultural Understanding: Using Poetry to Promote Multiethnic Awareness
Apr 01, 2008; Webster, Paula Sunanon; Walters, Toni S ... Introduction In September 1965, Nancy Larrick published a landmark article, "The All-White World of Children's Literature," in the Saturday Review. She stated that 6,340,000 nonWhite children were learning to read and to understand the American way of life in books which either omitted ...
Diversity Initiatives in Higher Education: Implications of Spirituality in Multicultural Curricular, Pedagogical, and Research Paradigms
Apr 01, 2008; Brimhall-Vargas, Mark; Clark, Christine ... Stop moving to become still, and the stillness will move. If you hold on to opposites, you cannot understand one. Do not live in the world of opposites. Be careful! Never go that way. If you make right and wrong, your mind is lost in ...
Examining the "Model Minority Myth": A Review of Asian Americans in Class: Charting the Achievement Gap among Korean American Youth
Apr 01, 2008; Amos, Yukari Takimoto ... Examining the "Model Minority Myth": A Review of Asian Americans in Class: Charting the Achievement Gap among Korean American Youth Reviewed by Yukari Takimoto Amos Asian Americans in Class: Charting the Achievement Gap among Korean American Youth by Jamie Lew New York: Teachers College Press ...