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Bartelt, Guillermo – Journal of American Indian Education, 1979
Explains how bilingual education programs and monolingual institutions with remedial English as a Second Language programs share the goal of acculturation. Describes resistance and opposition to bilingual education, as well as its goals, advantages, approaches, teachers, and problems. (SB)
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students

Hegler, Kay L. – Action in Teacher Education, 1997
This paper provides strategies used by several teacher education programs to enable beginning and continuing teachers to celebrate diversity in curriculum, faculty, and student body. Explains that successful programs identify and overcome such barriers to diversity as geographic location, limited pool of faculty applicants, unspoken prejudices,…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Consciousness Raising, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Pluralism

Garfield, Leslie Yalof – Journal of College and University Law, 1996
Legal limitations faced by law schools adopting university diversity admission policies are considered in light of the new judicial climate in which consideration of nontraditional race criteria is in disfavor. Difficulties in admitting a fully diverse law school class under the traditional application process are examined, appropriate standards…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Admission Criteria, Affirmative Action, College Administration

Spolsky, Bernard – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1997
Israel is fertile ground for research in multilingualism. Revitalization of Hebrew resulted in a tendency for ideological and instrumentally-motivated monolingualism to replace earlier multilingual patterns, even in the context of pressure for language shift by Arabic, Russian, Yiddish, and other languages, and Hebrew's competition with English in…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Diachronic Linguistics, English (Second Language), Ethnic Groups

McKay, Sandra Lee – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1997
Examines demographic changes in the United States since 1980s influencing the recent effort to assert English over other languages. Key issues include: efforts to ensure English dominance in English-Only initiatives; court rulings on English-Only regulations in the workplace; and bilingual education legislation. Reviews current research on…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bilingual Education, Competition, Court Litigation

Powell, R. – Teaching and Teacher Education, 1997
Explores the classroom curriculum and instructional strategies of a white, second career teacher who created a culturally relevant teaching practice. Longitudinal data chronicled the development of her beliefs, values, and dispositions for meeting diverse student needs. Important themes were acquiring cultural sensitivity, reshaping the classroom…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Awareness

Cooper, Eric J.; Sherk, John – Journal of Negro Education, 1989
Discusses problems related to urban education and suggests ways that classrooms may be restructured. Concludes that educators must draw on both environmental factors such as the home and the classroom social group, and academic and organizational alliances in order to effect meaningful change in urban schools. (MW)
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Cognitive Style, Culture Fair Tests, Educational Change

Greathouse, Betty; And Others – Negro Educational Review, 1988
Analyzes responses of a group of 42 unemployed Black and Hispanic mothers of children attending an inner-city Head Start Center to standardized measures of locus of control, childrearing attitudes and practices, and parent participation. (FMW)
Descriptors: Black Mothers, Child Rearing, Economically Disadvantaged, Hispanic Americans

Gay, Geneva – Theory into Practice, 1994
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)
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, American Indians, Asian Americans, Black Students

Kastner, Joan; And Others – Journal of Educational Research, 1995
Incentive structures were observed in mainstream classes enrolling students labeled as low achieving, average achieving, and learning disabled (LD). Incentive structures were labeled academic engagement and behavioral management. Students with LD engaged in intermediate amounts of content-related process relative to other students. Teachers used…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Black Students, Elementary School Students

Ladson-Billings, Gloria – Theory into Practice, 1995
Describes the centrality of culturally relevant pedagogy to academic success for minority students who are poorly served in public schools, discussing linkages between school and culture, examining the theoretical grounding of culturally relevant teaching in the context of a study of successful teachers of black students. Provides examples of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Class Activities, Consciousness Raising

Kroon, Sjaak; Vallen, Ton – Current Issues in Language and Society, 1994
Discusses the immigrant situation in The Netherlands, Dutch education policy with respect to ethnic minorities, intercultural and language education, and the implementation of the 1992 "Cedars in de tuin" policy report. It is concluded that government policy in regard to multicultural Dutch society is somewhere between assimilation and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Bilingual Education, Cultural Differences
Pacheco, Arturo – Metropolitan Universities: An International Forum, 1994
This paper reviews the literature on student retention at urban colleges and explores notions of student involvement and academic and social integration especially in relation to nontraditional students. It describes some programmatic interventions designed to improve retention. The paper concludes that partnerships with public schools may have a…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Faculty, College Role, College School Cooperation

Merryfield, Merry M.; And Others – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1995
Presents three reactions to James A. Banks' article, "Transformative Challenges to the Social Science Disciplines: Implications for Social Studies Teaching and Learning." Calls for more emphasis on global education, agrees that teaching and learning strategies should be changed, and recommends changes in preservice teacher education.…
Descriptors: Blacks, Cognitive Processes, Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum Development

Honig, Alice Sterling – Contemporary Education, 1995
Early educational enrichment is a powerful tool for breaking the cycle of low achievement, school dropout, and dysfunctional adult behaviors. The article examines major areas related to preschool and school functioning that require consciousness raising and activism during early childhood education, suggesting ways to help sustain children's…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Consciousness Raising, Early Childhood Education