Multicultural Education articles from March 2008

Multicultural Education archives from March 2008

Keepin' it real and relevant: providing a culturally responsive education to pregnant and parenting teens.(Report)
March 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 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...

Sustaining ourselves under stressful times: strategies to assist multicultural educators.(Report)
March 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 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,...

The unheralded history of the Lemon Grove desegregation case.(Essay)
March 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "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...

Motivations of parental involvement in children's learning: voices from urban African American families of preschoolers.(Report)
March 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] 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...

The "inner city" is my blues.(Personal Perspective)(Essay)
March 22, 2008... 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. ...

Something every teacher and counselor needs to know about African-American children.(Personal Perspective)(Essay)
March 22, 2008... 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...

Teacher judgment in identifying gifted/talented students.(Research)(Report)
March 22, 2008... 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,...

Teachers' perceptions of ELL education: potential solutions to overcome the greatest challenges.(Research)(English language learners)(Report)
March 22, 2008... 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...

Bridges to cultural understanding: using poetry to promote multiethnic awareness.(Promising Practices)
March 22, 2008... 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 non-White children were learning to read and to understand the...

Elementary preservice teachers' utilization of English Language Development instructional strategies in the teaching of science to English learners.(Promising Practices)(Report)
March 22, 2008... 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...

Diversity initiatives in higher education: implications of spirituality in multicultural curricular, pedagogical, and research paradigms.(Higher Education)(Report)
March 22, 2008... 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...

Examining the "model minority myth": a review of Asian Americans in Class: Charting the Achievement Gap among Korean American Youth.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Asian Americans in Class: Charting the Achievement Gap among Korean American Youth by Jamie Lew New York: Teachers College Press 2006, 144 pages ISBN 0807746940, $54.00 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jamie Lew's Asian...