Product Description: Conference papers for the 55th NRC.

Product Description: Working with Mixed Heritage Students offers a collection of writings that bridges the social science and educational literature related to mixed heritage identity development and schooling in diverse contexts. As such, it is the first book of its kind to provide a direct focus on multiracial/ethnic identity and formal education in the United States based on the scholarship of educational researchers...read more

Product Description: This book examines how teachers, administrators, and educational institutions contribute to racial and ethnic inequality and offers policy and practice suggestions for change. It reviews the literature, the national societal and cultural contexts, definitions of race and ethnicity, family influences, and then explores the topic in relation to teachers, classrooms, school programs, school organization, and district policy making...read more

Product Description: The issues explored in this book include such topics as: cultural therapy in order to enhance student-teacher relationships; differences in attitude and motivation of immigrant and domestic minority youth; second-language acquisition; and the efficacy of collaborative home-school partnerships...read more

Product Description: The essays collected in this volume were written for a conference at Rutgers University on the subject of inclusivity and diversity in education, organized in response to the controversial books on those topics by Allan Bloom and E. D. Hirsch.

Product Description: After being off the public agenda for a decade, the subject of bilingual education is once again at the center of public debate. Assumptions about the values of cultural pluralism and the rise of the "unmeltable ethnics" so dominant for the last twenty years have met a renewed public affirmation of the value of assimilation...read more

Product Description: Book by Ortiz, Alba A.