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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 ...
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.
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 Families Illustration including Fostering Tolerance for Lesbian and Gay Family Unit Developing Themes of Study. The Children of the Rainbow Curriculum (also referred to as the Rainbow Curriculum), created in 1991 by the New York City Board of Education was introduced to first-grade teachers to "assist with teaching about multicultural social issues".
Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching won the Philip C. Chinn book of the year award [23] and Teaching for Change won the National Association for Multicultural Education Organization of the Year in 2004. In 2005, Teaching for Change was invited by former board member and entrepreneur Andy Shallal to open a bookstore in Busboys ...
Culturally relevant teaching is instruction that takes into account students' cultural differences. Making education culturally relevant is thought to improve academic achievement, [1] but understandings of the construct have developed over time [2] Key characteristics and principles define the term, and research has allowed for the development and sharing of guidelines and associated teaching ...
It also provides professional development for teachers and other school staff that can be tailored to schools' specific needs. It has developed guidelines on non-discrimination, bullying and diversity policies and a broad set of resources, including books and videos. [16] [30]
The books were selected by the Committee based on state guidelines that had been set, including but not limited to some that books should be "multicultural in content and authorship". [2] An English teacher on the committee stated that although she held strong conservative values, she felt that removing books that showed opposing opinions would ...