Public School Issues

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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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