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Subject(s)

• Multicultural education—United States [Browse]
• Multiculturalism—United States [Browse]
• Minorities—Education—United States [Browse]

Series

• Multicultural education series (New York, N.Y.) [More in this series]
• Multicultural education series

Summary note

Offers advice for closing the achievement gap of low-income African American students in urban schools -- Focuses on issues of assessment for K-12 students and teachers of color -- Explores the declining number of teachers of color in the United States and its relation to school failure among African American and Latino students -- Outlines a curriculum for teacher education programs to help them produce culturally aware and effective teachers -- Examines how colleges of education can reverse the cycle of failure for students of color by producing teachers who are culturally responsive -- Concludes with a summary of the work and recommendations of such scholars as James A. Banks and Sonia Nieto.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-98) and index.

Contents

• 1. The education of children whose nightmares come both day and night
• Explaining the achievement gap, a critical examination
• CULTURES : a professional development center for urban teachers
• In conclusion
• 2. The role of colleges of education : multiculturalism through curricular and cultural change
• Curriculum revision for multiculturalism
• Organizational climate and cultural change for multiculturalism
• Recommendations
• Conclusion
• 3. Seeing with the cultural eye : different perspectives of African American teachers and researchers
• The cultural eye
• Researchers' perspectives
• African American teachers' perspectives
• Failure to see eye to eye
• Seeing with the third eye
• 4. Caring, competent teachers in complex classrooms
• Complexity of the issue of care
• Complexity of the issue of competence
• Complexities of teaching
• 5. They bring more than their race : why teachers of color are essential in today's schools
• Teachers of color as cultural translators
• High expectations, mentoring, and advocacy
• Culturally based teaching styles
• Recruitment and retention strategies
• 6. Assessment and equity in a culturally diverse society
• Language, knowledge, and culture
• Learning, teaching, and culture
• Assessment and culture
• 7. Educating teachers for diversity : a proposal for change
• Failures of the past
• A proposal for change
• The CULTURES program
• What are the implications of the CULTURES program for pre- and inservice teachers?
• In conclusion.

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ISBN

• 9780807743584
• 0807743585 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
• 0807743577 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
• 9780807743577 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2002042985

OCLC

51251677

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