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Public School Issues


Introduction to Education
As our world becomes more and more diverse, with new technologies bringing different spheres of understanding, different languages and diverse cultures into our living rooms and our classrooms, we become challenged. New ideas, new information and new reforms in our educational systems must coincide with our new horizons.
This is one of the relevant concepts of the 1990’s and it will continue beyond the millennium. The issue is labeled “multiculturalism.” The term is defined as “a set of believes based on the importance of seeing the world from different cultural frames of reference and on recognizing and valuing the rich array of cultures within our nation and ...

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and even ”anti-American” because it encourages students to find their ethnic identity instead of trying to identify with a united American culture. It is also a common belief that a “alternative” cultural education would impede the progress of the basic learning skills that were the backbone of the educational process.

I strongly believe multicultural education and its evolutionary reform is a necessity in our educational systems--especially because of our global expansion. As I researched numerous sites on the Internet, I found many sources to support my ideas.

One such source was Education Reforms and Students at Risk: A Review of the Current Sate of the Art. The report cited Pittsburgh’s Prospect Middle School’s Multicultural Center. The school defined the elements of multicultural education as:

"1) personal development and interpersonal relations of students; 2) fair and effective approaches to individual differences in learning styles that are believed to be linked to ...

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Added: 9/9/2006 04:52:40 PM
Category: Social Issues
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