A Review of Lessons from the Heartland: A Turbulent Half-Century of Public...
A Review of Lessons from the Heartland: A Turbulent Half-Century of Public Education in an Iconic American City by Barbara J. Miner, New York: The New Press, 2013It is not hard for many to believe that...
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IntroductionWe have a good mix of Korean children and English children in our [two-way immersion] program but it's extremely difficult to get the kids [both Korean and English] to speak Korean. The...
View ArticleLorenzo P. V. Riles? Should the Larry P. Prohibitions Be Extended to English...
Introduction Other than being African American little is known of Larry, the lead plaintiff in the legal case known as Larry P. v. Riles which banned the use of standardized intelligent testing on...
View ArticleMirrors of the Mind: Introduction to Mindful Ways of Thinking Education
A Review of Mirrors of the Mind: Introduction to Mindful Ways of Thinking Education by Noriyuki Inoue, Peter Lang Publications, 2012In Mirrors of the Mind: Introduction to Mindful Ways of Thinking...
View ArticlePerceptions of Head Start Teachers about Culturally Relevant Practice
IntroductionChildren bring a variety of cultural, linguistic, and social backgrounds into the preschool classroom. When teachers consider these backgrounds, they are better able to create environments...
View ArticleRaising Cultural Awareness of Fifth-Grade Students through Multicultural...
Introduction For decades scholars have agreed that the United States is becoming a more racially and ethnically diverse society (Amos, 2010; Gollnick & Chinn, 2009; Marbley, 2012). In particular,...
View ArticleLooking at Racial Segregation: An Exploratory Case Study of a Predominately...
Introduction In 2005, a group of concerned parents who had arrived in the United States as refugees from war-torn Somalia received approval from their local school district to establish the Iftin...
View ArticleLorenzo P. V. Riles?: Should the Larry P. Prohibitions Be Extended to English...
IntroductionOther than being African American little is known of Larry, the lead plaintiff in the legal case known as Larry P. v. Riles which banned the use of standardized intelligent testing on...
View ArticleEncouraging Pre-Service Teachers to Address Issues of Sexual Orientation in...
IntroductionImagine this scenario: A high school marching band has just finished a long day of summer practice. The drum majors dismiss the students by grade level-first the seniors, then the juniors,...
View ArticleA Dance Class, a Drag King, & the Pedagogical Possibilities of Performative...
IntroductionAlex U. Inn is the co-founder and one of the two MCs of the hip-hop drag king group, Momma's Boyz. Momma's Boyz celebrated their tenth anniversary in 2014. Carmen Morrison is the offstage...
View ArticleBlending State Social Studies Standards & World-Mindedness: Advice for...
IntroductionElementary teachers face the challenging task of meeting state curriculum standards while at the same time attempting to expand ideas that are inclusive of the wider world. With...
View ArticleMental Health Consultation: An Untapped Tool for Facilitating Volatile...
Introduction There is an urgent need for leadership skills when facilitating communication and engendering acceptance and respect among people from culturally different backgrounds, opposing...
View ArticlePerspectives vs. Reality of Heritage Language Development: Voices from...
Introduction The United States is abundant in human resources and educational opportunities to produce many multicultural and multilingual citizens. The number of individuals who speak a language other...
View ArticleImmigrants as Refugees of the Global Economy: Learning to Teach (about)...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Immigration and the Global Economy The phenomenon of migration as we know it today must be understood in the larger context of the globalized economy and...
View ArticleEducation as Instrument or as Empowerment? Untangling White Privilege in the...
Introduction One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes...
View ArticleTeaching Young Children about the Civil Rights Movement: Applying Effective &...
IntroductionIt is crucial for teachers to persistently examine, be knowledgeable about, and reflect on their beliefs, assumptions, values, standpoints, experiences, biases, prejudices, and stereotypes...
View ArticleImmigrants as Refugees of the Global Economy
Immigration and the Global EconomyThe phenomenon of migration as we know it today must be understood in the larger context of the globalized economy and the "race to the bottom" that characterizes the...
View ArticleEducation as Instrument or as Empowerment?: Untangling White Privilege in the...
IntroductionOne cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes...
View ArticleVillain or Hero: Student Interpretations of African Trickster Tales
IntroductionThis collaborative action research study describes the results of how pre-service teachers at three institutions of higher learning construed three pre-colonial West African folktales that...
View ArticlePositioning Multicultural Education across the Mirror of Globalization
IntroductionAlong with what I suspect many of my colleagues who teach college-level multi-cultural education classes experience, my initial approach to teaching introductory courses to graduate...
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