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The topic is only revealed to the students an hour before the actual debate by way of opening a sealed envelope in their presence. This ensures that no pre-written material can be used in the debate. Students are expected to speak for a total time period of four minutes which is followed by two minutes of questioning and rebuttals.
Gay is a consultant for the Teaching Diverse Students initiative through Learning For Justice, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. [citation needed] In 1994, Gay was the first recipient of The G. Pritchy Smith Multicultural Educator Award given by the National Association for Multicultural Education.
Multicultural education has been claimed to ignore "minority students' own responsibility for their academic performance." [38] Another critique claims that "multicultural education theories and programs are rarely based on the actual study of minority cultures and languages." A third states, "The inadequacy of the multicultural education ...
However, the West Virginia Council of Churches supported the books. On 27 June the school board, including Moore met again, with over 1,000 local residents observing, and voted to approve the books after a three-hour debate over the merits of teaching a liberal curriculum. This was met with much consternation from conservative groups.
The state of California introduced The FAIR Education Act; Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful, which aimed to include LGBT events into history books and instructional materials. [12] Individuals that have shaped the political and social sphere such as Harvey Milk and Matthew Shepard are now recognized as important and have become a part ...
Sleeter has authored, edited, and co-edited 17 books and over 100 articles. She has collaborated with Carl Grant in conceptualizing approaches to multicultural education in the book, Making Choices for Multicultural Education, and has shown how those approaches relate to practice in the book, Turning on Learning.
The racial achievement gap in the United States refers to disparities in educational achievement between differing ethnic/racial groups. [1] It manifests itself in a variety of ways: African-American and Hispanic students are more likely to earn lower grades, score lower on standardized tests, drop out of high school, and they are less likely to enter and complete college than whites, while ...
Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life is an introductory textbook of biology, for students. [ further explanation needed ] The fifteenth edition was published in 2019, by Cengage Learning . It was compiled by Cecie Starr and Ralph Taggart with pictures and illustrations by Lisa Starr.