Multicultural education isn’t a specialty; it’s how teaching and learning should happen in all schools, with all students. Gloria Ladson-Billings, education professor at the University of Wisconsin, studies the habits of mind required of beginning teachers who are prepared to support diverse classrooms. Drawing on her own memories of her start in teaching and the experiences of eight students participating
Anger and bereavement, throughout history, have provided the engine for relentless struggles for change. -Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder “There were more than 1,400 kids in my daughter’s school. And she was going year-round to class. For twenty-eight days she was in class, and for twenty-eight days she’d stop. She had to move from one classroom to another. It was a
Throughout The Light in Their Eyes, I was thrilled by the continuity between Sonia Nieto’s description of multicultural education and Coalition educators’ focus on personalized, sustained and supportive relationships among teachers and students. Nieto, education professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, explores how teachers, through cultural connection and understanding, promote learning and equity among all students, especially bicultural
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