Ethnic studies should be viewed as a process of curriculum reform that will result in the creation of a new curriculum that is based on new assumptions and new perspectives, and which will help students to gain novel views of the American experience and a new conception of what it means to be American. (Author)

Multiethnic education requires that the total school environment be changed so that students from diverse ethnic and racial groups will experience educational equality. Because of inconclusive data and hypotheses on the education of poor and ethnic minority youths, policies for the changes must be guided primarily by our values. (Author/RW)

Several key generalizations which students can derive about the legal status of ethnic minorities in the United States are identified, as are major events, treaties, and court cases essential for understanding the struggle for justice among non-Whites. (Author/KM)

Curriculum specialists have devised ethnic studies programs without giving serious thought to the basic issues which should be considered when curriculum changes are made. (Author)

This essay defines and delineates the boundaries of some major concepts related to education and pluralism and suggests programmatic and policy implications to help educators to clarify, specify, and evaluate their goals as related to ethnicity and pluralism in American society. (JD)

Suggests that effective educational policy and programs should be based on research and theory which focus on both race and culture and the complex interactions between these and related variables such as socio-economic status. (Author/AM)

This paper delineates some basic characteristics of ethnic groups in contemporary American society and develops a typology for defining and classifying ethnic groups which is more consistent with the current characteristics of ethnic groups than many existing definitions and typologies. Several social forces have changed the characteristics and…

Racial, ethnic, cultural, and language diversity is increasing in nation-states throughout the world because of worldwide immigration. The deepening ethnic diversity within nation-states and the quest by different groups for cultural recognition and rights are challenging assimilationist notions of citizenship and forcing nation-states to…

This document discusses the goals of multiethnic education, its usefulness for educational reform, and common practices in multiethnic programs. There is a need for all children to learn about other cultures in order to gain greater understanding by viewing themselves from different perspectives. Teachers of multiethnic education should try to…

The major goals of education for ethnic minority youth should be to maximize their cultural and social options, to present them with cultural and ethnic alternatives, and to help them attain the skills which they need to function successfully in different co-cultures. The school needs to become a multi-ethnic institution which accepts, encourages,…

Although there are many different approaches, statements of aims, and definitions of multicultural education, an examination of literature by specialists in the field indicates that there is a high level of consensus about its aims and goals. A major goal, as recognized by specialists in the field, is the reform of schools and other educational…

This paper describes social problems that ethnic minorities are likely to experience in the 1980s and presents guidelines for shaping educational policies and programs that will help ethnic minority youths to experience more educational equity during the remainder of the decade. The minority groups discussed are those that are heavily concentrated…