A biography of an eighteenth century black American mathematician is presented. (SD)

Describes origin and development of programs, focusing on affirmative action at the Faculty of Northern Peoples of Leningrad's Herzen Pedagogical Institute. Offers conclusions and implications for North America. Includes extensive bibliography, tables on Siberian populations and languages, and biographies of two Siberian educators and two female…

This bibliography is intended to inform and acquaint teachers, administrators, and community persons in Baltimore, Maryland, with the multi-ethnic print and nonprint resources available for their use at the Pathway Project Resource Center. There are 14 parts to the listing: audiovisual materials, autobiographies and biographies; cultural…

The lives of many Hispanic Americans have made a difference in the story of America. Hispanic Americans are people whose families can be traced to the Spanish speaking countries. At the time of the 1990 census, there were 22,400,000 Hispanic Americans in the United States. They should be proud of their heritage, and should recognize the…

In two years, Cuban-born Superintendent Peter Negroni has worked tirelessly to make the Springfield (Massachusetts) Public Schools a showcase for innovation and school reform. In whirlwind fashion, he has built bridges to the city's business, religious, and social service communities, introduced school-based management to all 40 district schools,…

Formerly National Education Association president, Mary Futrell got NEA to support the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and helped shift NEA's focus to professional development and human-rights issues. She believes teachers must help state and district entities set academic and professional-development standards. (MLH)

This annotated bibliography is intended to help social studies teachers give students in grades 5-12 a better understanding of Jews from the Biblical times to the present. Its purposes are to supply information about the role of Jews in both world and American history and to help teachers and students develop an informed perspective on intergroup…

This document describes what reading should be in a Holocaust library for children. Considering the graphic and violent events of the Holocaust, this list of books for children presents the Holocaust in a way that satisfies the need for some gentleness of treatment, while still engaging interest and presenting facts accurately, to provide a list…

Intended to help educators identify materials that offset the influence of sex-biased texts, this bibliography provides an annotated listing of over 550 nonsexist books that have been assessed for bias and reading level. Organized by reading levels for first through twelfth grades, the citations include bibliographic data, annotations, notation of…

Discusses how to choose series biographies for children about women and people of color. Guidelines help balance standards for quality with collection demands and available resources. An annotated list reviews 17 different series containing 54 titles. Other sources of reviews are presented. (SLD)

Reviews books and videos for multicultural education and cultural awareness in elementary and secondary classrooms. The 28 works reviewed focus on gender and minority experiences, U.S. history, multicultural mathematics, folklore, world literature, and the lives of distinguished Americans from minority groups. (SLD)

Community leadership roles taken by African-American educators between 1795 and 1954 are reviewed, including biographical sketches of several prominent Blacks. Educators were major figures in African-American movements toward specific cultural objectives. (SLD)

This document contains a classified and annotated list of research studies in education, so far as reported to the Bureau of Education, which were completed in the United States during the year ended June 30, 1927. The compilers have endeavored to make the list as comprehensive as possible. Both published and unpublished studies are included.…