Affective, social, emotional, and psychological dimensions of individual and societal development are crucial to the education of the whole child. This paper suggests alternative proposals for educational programming to achieve a better balance between vocational and technological emphases and humane and interpersonal skill development in schools.…

This article looks at the legacy of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, discusses the formative stages of multicultural education, and explains the shifting contours of multicultural education, along with some reasons for these developmental changes. It explores two specific domains of multicultural education--curriculum desegregation and…

Examines the current status of cultural diversity in middle school education theory, suggests some developmental characteristics of young adolescents of color that are often overlooked, and proposes some ways that middle school education could be modified to be more responsive to the ethnic and cultural diversity of early adolescents. (SM)