Multicultural Education Issues and Perspectives

This handy reference is designed to help present and future educators acquire the concepts, paradigms, and explanations needed to become effective practitioners in culturally, racially, and language diverse classrooms and schools. The Fifth Edition reflects current and emerging research, concepts, and debates about the education of students from both genders and from different cultural, racial, ethnic, and language groups. It has been updated throughout and includes the new article High Stakes: Testing for Tracking, Promotion and Graduation.