Recently added articles from Multicultural Education:
LET'S TALK ABOUT RACE, BABY: HOW A WHITE PROFESSOR TEACHES WHITE STUDENTS ABOUT WHITE PRIVILEGE & RACISM
Oct 01, 2008; ... Accounts of teaching themes of White privilege and racism to college students have been presented by Tatum (1992, 1994), Gillespie, Ashbaugh and DeFiore (2002), and Rich and Cargile (2004). Tatum described her experience as an African-American woman teaching both White students and students of ...
MEASUREMENT AND ASSESSMENT: CONSERVATIONS WITH PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE OF COLOR IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION
Oct 01, 2008; ... Introduction With the increased focus on issues of diversity and multiculturalism in the United States and abroad, educators and clinicians have become more and more concerned about the feasibility and validity of their assessment instruments and practices for children and adults from ...
What Is Special about Special Needs of Refugee Children? Guidelines for Teachers
Oct 01, 2008; ... Introduction The past decade has seen a rapid growth of increasingly diverse immigrant populations in the United States-the most vulnerable among these are refugee children. Most immigrants enter a host country with a goal of improving their opportunities in life. Further, they arrive ...
Banana Girl
Oct 01, 2008; ... I learned to draw at my father's knee and gave it him love up for power. My mother taught me my English alphabet as she was learning it, how to write characters in Chinese, how to deal with ...
An Atlas I Know
Oct 01, 2008; ... bass thumps out the rump of a Delta 88 on 24 inch rims dice sway from the rearview mirror in the back window a Bible bounces next to an atlas i know there's meaning in there somewhere in the car in ...
Juvenile
Oct 01, 2008; ... Ben tells Jorge how he's like Rosa Parks because he sits in the back of the bus Jorge points out Ben sits in the back of the bus because he wants to Pedro tells Darryl why he liked his poem it touched me like I'm touching your ...
Bronze
Oct 01, 2008; ... The color I seek after school when dad used to pick me Up at the curbside of Franklin and Commonwealth Av. At twelve not yet a long-haired girl, I wait and wait For bronze a two-door Nissan short-bed truck to take Me home to Welcome St. near First and ...
Academic Dialogue
Oct 01, 2008; ... i read and read and read and read but still don't understand the meaning of classicmodernistparadigmaticfunctionaldiscourse associated with those i know don't look like me pressed to articulate whatever sorries may ...
Grandview
Oct 01, 2008; ... The grade sevens went outside to write about what outside reminded them of. They lined up along the fence across from the cut, the concrete pillars of the Skytrain. To some it was a snake. To others, a sidewalk. For some, the chain link fence was a ...
WILL
Oct 01, 2008; ... Gunshots Ring across the hallway of Norris Hall in Virginia Tech on Monday, Yom HaShoah. 76-year old teacher moves to the doorway of his classroom and peers out. Death, an old acquaintance, moves toward him and his students. Small in ...
The class is asked what they think of when they hear the words 'United States'
Oct 01, 2008; ... Freedom, says Gao, his eyes sentinels. In China we have to like government, no free place, he says, keeping lips and jaw half-shut. Too much freedom here! says Fahd, in sharply creased trousers and three gold chains. Free to divorce, he says, incredulous. Children has no father, mother ...
Ethnic Disproportionality in Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Oct 01, 2008; ... Introduction Originally described by Leo Kanner (1943) and recognized as a special education eligibility category by the U.S. Department of Education in 1990 (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act [IDEA], 1990), autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are characterized by deficits in ...
Key Life Experiences Contributing to Hmong Students' Matriculation
Oct 01, 2008; ... Introduction Research on Hmong-Americans started emerging in the late 1980s (Conquegood, 1989; Hendricks, et al, 1986; Quincy, 1988 & 1994) and continues to flourish to the present (Hamilton-Merrit, 1993 & 1999; Hutchinson, 1997; Lo, 2001; Timm, 1994; Thao, 1999); Vang, 2005; ...
Examining the Presidential Libraries: Students Find Biases and Recommend a Multicultural Perspective
Oct 01, 2008; ... An Educator's Question The primary focus of research that we have undertaken at New Mexico State University for the past several years can be summed up with the question-are Presidential Libraries educational institutions or are they simply political monuments and messages? We ...
"Act It Out": Dramatizing Stories to Enhance Student Writing and Diversity Awareness
Oct 01, 2008; ... Young people have the potential to be creative and skilled storytellers, actors, and writers. They also can become profoundly insightful about the way diversity affects themselves and others, as well as actively challenge bias. "Act It Out" encourages these potentials in students. Augmenting the ...
Merry Navidad!: Christmas Carols in Spanish and English/Merry Navidad: Villancicos en español e inglés
Oct 01, 2008; ... Ada, Alma Flor and F. Isabel Campoy. Merry Navidad!: Christmas Carols in Spanish and English. Merry Navidad: Villancicos en español e inglés Illustrator: Viví Escrivá Translated into English by Rosalma Zubizarreta New York: Harper Collins, 2007; 64 p. ISBN: 978-0-06-058434-4 $16.99; Grades ...
Rapunzel/Rapunzel/Rumpelstiltskin/Rumpelstiltskin/The Three Little Pigs/Los tres cerditos/Beauty and the Beast/La bella y la bestia
Oct 01, 2008; ... Bofill, Francesc Rapunzel/Rapunzel Illus:trator: Joma ISBN: 978-0-8118-5059-9 Carrasco, Xavier Rumpelstiltskin/Rumpelstiltskin Illustrator: Francesc Infante ISBN: 978-0-8118-5972-1 Escardó i Bas, Mercé The Three Little Pigs/Los tres cerditos Illustrator: Pere Joan ISBN: ...
A la sombra del olivo/By the Shade of the Olive Tree/Cancioncillas del jardín del Edén/Children's Songs from the Garden of Eden
Oct 01, 2008; ... Favret, Hafida and Magdeleine Lerasle A la sombra del olivo/ By the Shade of the Olive Tree Illustrator: Nathalie Novi ISBN: 84-88342-88-8; Includes a CD Soussana, Nathalie Cancioncillas del jardín del Edén/ Children's Songs from the Garden of Eden Illustrator: Beatrice Alemagna ISBN: ...
Bella y la Bestia/Beauty and the Beast
Oct 01, 2008; ... Leprince de Beaumont, Madame Bella y la Bestia/Beauty and the Beast Illustrator: Angela Barrett Translated by Miguel Ángel Mendo Madrid: Kókinos, 2006; 64 p. ISBN: 84-96629-03-1; $21.95; Grades 2-5 Barrett's exquisitely refined detailed illustrations sensitively convey the magic and ...
Las mil y una noches . . . [o casi]/A Thousand and One Nights. . . [or Almost]
Oct 01, 2008; ... Fiction Sierra i Fabra, Jordi Las mil y una noches . . . [o casi]/ A Thousand and One Nights. . . [or Almost] Illustrator: Francesc Rovira Barcelona: Edebé, 2006; 174 p. ISBN: 84-236-8210-2; $29.95; Grades 3-6 Based on the always-popular Scheherazade's Arabian Nights, Sierra i ...