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Product Description: Classroom Voices on Education and Race presents core educational issues- with an emphasis on race and the racial achievement gap, school culture, and curriculum-through the unfiltered and poignant voices of high school students. Students from urban, rural, and suburban public schools express a strong desire for a more active role in their classrooms, as well as for a curriculum that is more responsive to their world...read more

Product Description: Are you seeing your students clearly? This unique collaboration between a veteran educator and a psychotherapist asserts that the educators who are most effective in teaching diverse populations are those who can "see students clearly and respond to their needs without hesitation or bias...read more

Product Description: ''This is a book of stories told by adolescents and adults about teaching and learning.... Puzzlement, wonder, curiosity, disruption, and distress mark the emotions of all the storytellers here.''--From the Foreword by Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University ''Crossing Boundaries is a must-read for anyone interested in improving the academic achievements and enhancing the literacy practices of marginalized students...read more

This title is only available as a Loose-Leaf version with Pearson eText.   This definitive resource gives readers a strong background in the conceptual, theoretical, and philosophical issues in multicultural education from one of the most well respected authorities in the field–James A. Banks. In the opening chapter author Banks presents his well-known and widely used concept of Dimensions of Multicultural Education to help build an understanding of how the various components of multicultural education are interrelated. He then provides vital information on preparing students to function as effective citizens in a global world; discusses the dimensions, history, and goals of multicultural education; presents the conceptual, philosophical, and research issues related to education and diversity; examines the issues involved in curriculum and teaching; looks at gender equity, disability, giftedness, and language diversity; and focuses on intergroup relations and principles for teaching and learning.    This new edition incorporates new concepts, theories, research, and developments in the field of multicultural education that have occurred since the last edition was published, and features:     0133830969 / 9780133830965 Cultural Diversity and Education: Foundations, Curriculum, and Teaching, Loose-Leaf Version with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package 0133521516 / 9780133521511 Cultural Diversity and Education: Foundations, Curriculum, and Teaching, Loose-Leaf Version 0133523195 / 9780133523195 Cultural Diversity and Education: Foundations, Curriculum, and Teaching, Pearson eText -- Access Card

Product Description: Education of America's school children always has been and always will be a hot-button issue. From what should be taught to how to pay for education to how to keep kids safe in schools, impassioned debates emerge and mushroom, both within the scholarly community and among the general public...read more

Product Description: Today's educators experience diversity challenges within their curricula, schools, and school systems on a daily basis-yet most lack the knowledge to turn those challenges into positive outcomes that enrich learning and establish strong, inclusive learning communities...read more

Product Description: Sue Walters introduces the keyissues underlying contemporary work, thinking and practice aroundethnicity, ‘race' and education drawing on current research,debate, policy and practice across mainstream and non-mainstream educationalsettings...read more

Product Description: Increasing Diversity in Gifted Education shows teachers, administrators, and other interested parties how to finally meet the educational needs of high-potential students across all racial, ethnic, language, and economic groups as well as some categories of disability...read more

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Product Description: This volume highlights issues of power, inequality, and resistance for Asian, African American, and Latino/a students in distinct U.S. and international contexts. Through a collection of case studies it links universal issues relating to inequality in education, such as Asian, Latino, and African American males in the inner-city neighborhoods, Latina teachers and single mothers in California, undocumented youth from Mexico and El Salvador, immigrant Morrocan youth in Spain, and immigrant Afro-Caribbean and Indian teenagers in New York and in London...read more

Today's classrooms are more diverse than ever before. In order to reach these students, educators must be aware of the issues facing their various cultural, racial, ethnic, and language groups. Focusing on the pertinent issues in multicultural education, this new edition raises these critical issues and facilitates meaningful discussion. It has been completely updated with the latest developments in the field to provide the educator with all the tools necessary to become effective practitioners.

Product Description: First hand stories by teachers for teachers on one of the most difficult topics to teach: diversityAccording to recent surveys, almost half of all students belong to a minority group, and that number is increasing yearly. Coping with the challenges associated with diversity and dealing with others in a sensitive and appropriate manner can be one of the more difficult aspects of teaching...read more

Product Description: How can teachers help their students to meet high standards of reading and writing while also preparing them to become thoughtful and productive members of a multicultural society? And why is it important to do this? In her new book, Mary Dilg brings us into her high school English classroom, where we see students reach across the social, cultural, and economic lines that divide them to build lifelong literacy skills...read more