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A Framework for Preparing Teachers for Classrooms That Are Inclusive of All Students
The changing student population in developed nations resulting from higher birth rates among racial/ethnic minority groups, increased worldwide migration related to economic globalization, and the adoption of ...
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Preparing Teachers for Diversity and High-Poverty Schools: A Research-Based Perspective
This chapter focuses on three bodies of research on teacher preparation for diversity and high-poverty schools in the U.S. Although the inference is that these contexts include relatively high numbers of stude...
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Preparing Linguistically Responsive Teachers in Multilingual Contexts
Growing numbers of people around the world are learning English as a second (or third or fourth) or foreign language (Jenkins 2006; Seidlhofer 2004). Many of these learners are enrolled in schools where Englis...
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Diversifying the Teaching Force: An Examination of Major Arguments
Over the past two decades, the short supply of teachers of color in elementary and secondary public schools has drawn the attention of policymakers and educators alike. To address the widening cultural chasm b...
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Increasing the Racial and Ethnic Diversity of the U.S. Teaching Force
Diversity is a fact of life in the United States, as evident in the student population served by the nation’s public schools. Already, students of racial and ethnic minority backgrounds account for a full one-...
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School failure and cultural mismatch: Another view
Recently, the school failure of minority students has been explained in terms of incompatibilities in the ways that language is used at home and in school. This theory has stimulated numerous studies. The rese...
