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Cuyjet, Michael J., Ed.; Howard-Hamilton, Mary F., Ed.; Cooper, Diane L., Ed. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2011
As the diversity of the students on campus increases, the importance for everyone in authority to understand students' distinct cultures and how they perceive institutions, and equally, to understand their own privilege, and often unconscious cultural assumptions, has never been greater. This book presents a comprehensive set of resources to guide…
Descriptors: Social Justice, College Students, Race, Discussion
Shodavaram, Mary P.; Jones, Lisa A.; Weaver, Laurie R.; Marquez, Judith A.; Ensle, Anne L. – Multicultural Education, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine suburban high school teachers' beliefs about non-European ancestry immigrant students; more specifically, suburban teachers' beliefs regarding the impact of students' cultural backgrounds on academic performance were examined. Non-European ancestry immigrant students are those students whose ancestral…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Likert Scales, Secondary School Teachers, Immigrants
Facing History and Ourselves, 2008
This resource book reflects the way that migration affects personal identity and offers educators and students the resources to examine this migration through methods of storytelling. It reveals experiences of immigrants from the individual to the collective through memoirs, journalistic accounts, and interviews. These experiences reflect a recent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Factors, Minority Groups, Immigrants
Moon, Tonya R.; Brighton, Catherine M. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2008
This article focuses on the first phase of a recent National Research Center on Giftedness and Talented (NRC/GT) project, which used survey research to target a disproportionate nationally stratified random sample of primary grade teachers about their beliefs and practices related to talent development in young children and their responses to case…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Primary Education, Talent Development, Minority Group Children
Bonner, Fred A., II, Ed.; Marbley, Aretha F., Ed.; Howard-Hamilton, Mary F., Ed. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2011
While many institutions have developed policies to address the myriad needs of Millennial college students and their parents, inherent in many of these initiatives is the underlying assumption that this student population is a homogeneous group. This book is significant because it addresses and explores the characteristics and experiences of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Ethnicity, Race
College Board, 2011
This report shows how well educators across the United States have increased access to the types of rich academic experiences that prepare students for success in college. By combining national, state and AP (Advanced Placement) data, this report provides educators and policymakers with information they can use to celebrate their successes,…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Advanced Placement, Graduation, State Departments of Education
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Juarez, Carlos E. – PS: Political Science and Politics, 1991
Describes the Graduate Mentor Program at the University of California Los Angeles. Discusses the importance of both faculty and graduate student mentors in recruiting talented minority students into graduate study of political science. Emphasizes minority students' lack of knowledge about graduate school, the graduate application process, and the…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Higher Education
Shea, Rich – Teacher Magazine, 2007
Army National Guard Sergeant James Reynolds is one of about 10,000 former and current military service members who, since 1994, have arrived in the classroom via the federal Troops to Teachers program. Reynolds, who was serving as rear gunner on a Humvee patrolling a Bosnian town, is currently teaching 6th grade students at Hybla Valley…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Credits, Principals, Military Service
Beardsley, Rick – 1992
This paper uses the ethno-cultural composition of the Canadian population and the framework of multicultural policies as a springboard for examining how a democratic state prepares new teachers for teaching in a multicultural society. The education community has come to accept multiculturalism as a foundation of Canadian identity, although there…
Descriptors: Canadian Studies, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Robenstine, Clark – Journal of Social Studies Research, 1991
Discusses the education of women and minorities in colonial Louisiana. Explains that Ursuline nuns established a school in the region for white, African-American, and Native American girls. Reports that students were taught reading, writing, arithmetic, and religion. Reveals that the nuns also cared for orphans, trained French immigrant brides,…
Descriptors: Colonial History (United States), Educational History, Minority Groups, Womens Education
Fasenmyer, Mary Sarah – Momentum, 1990
Describes shortages of minority teachers in Catholic schools with growing numbers of minority students, compounded by declining minority enrollments in higher education. Calls for strong financial aid programs, a prepared and committed faculty, and institutional support services for minority college students. Argues for a student-centered teaching…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Ancillary School Services, Catholic Educators, College Students
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Reyna, Christine – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2008
One explanation for the widening achievement gap in America and throughout Europe between ethnic minorities/immigrants, and Whites is the influence of cultural stereotypes on attributions made by both educators and students. This paper explores some factors that increase the likelihood that educators will consciously or unconsciously rely on…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Ethnic Stereotypes, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries
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Kiasatpour, Soleiman; Lasley, Scott – Journal of Political Science Education, 2008
What challenges do political science educators face teaching in the Hispanic-serving classroom? How do they adapt their teaching styles and strategies when confronting these challenges? This preliminary study explores these and related questions through a survey conducted of political science instructors at colleges and universities across Texas.…
Descriptors: Teaching Styles, Political Science, Colleges, Hispanic American Students
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Schwartz, Barry – Academe, 1996
Distinctions are made between tolerance, tacit approval, and acceptance, particularly within the context of culture and social power structure. It is concluded that in a world of unequal power, claims of tolerance on the part of the powerful who do nothing to assist the powerless whom they tolerate are unacceptable. (MSE)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitudes, Cultural Pluralism, Minority Groups
Lockheed, Marlaine E.; And Others – 1985
During the past several years considerable national-level attention has been focused on the state of American public education in mathematics, science and technology. There is, among the several policy reports, substantial agreement that student achievement levels in mathematics are lower than is desirable and the opportunity to learn mathematics,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Science Education, Ethnic Groups, Intermediate Grades
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