Give all children, no matter what their cultural, religious, or economic backgrounds, a common experience that would help them understand one another.
What is "common school"
100
That multicultural education and cooperative learning programs have been largely successful in changing people's attitudes and behaviors towards race.
What did Stephan, Ren, and Stephan's (2004) meta-analysis of multicultural education and cooperative learning programs conclude?
100
(1870's-1920's) The assimilation of immigrant children of different nationalities. Public schools task to make immigrant children as much like white, middle-class, Anglo-Saxon Protestants as possible in as short a time as possible.
What is Anglo-Conformity OR Assimilation Model
100
The variety of approaches that have been used by educational pluralists in attempting to advance the cause of a positive approach to cultural diversity.
What is multicultural education?
200
If the emphasis in Catholic schools was towards a religious faith, the emphasis in the common school was toward a secular government that would maintain the new forms of democracy being developed in the United States.
What is civil religion?
200
The Larry P. vs. Riles' verdict identified a disproportionate number of black school children in San Francisco Unified's special education programs, citing an invalid use of IQ tests as a basis for placement decisions.
How did the Larry P. vs Riles (1971) trial relate to civil rights and diversity in education?
200
when smaller groups within a larger society maintain their unique cultural identities, values, and practices are accepted by the wider culture provided they are consistent with the laws and values of the wider society.
What is Cultural Pluralism
200
The five distinct categories of multicultural education.
What are "Teaching the Culturally Different", "Human Relations", "Single-Group Studies", "Inclusive Multicultural Education", and "Education That Is Multicultural and Social Reconstructionist"?
300
Helped freed slaves with the transition to citizenship.
What is Freedman's Bureau?
300
Lau vs Nicholas was a landmark court case instrumental in the development of multicultural and bilingual education, providing students an education in languages that meet their needs.
What was the significance of Lau vs. Nichols verdict concerning diversity in education in the United States?
300
1954 Supreme Court decision that stated segregated schools were inherently unequal and that state laws that allowed separate schools for blacks and white students were unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education
300
This phrase means that the entire education program should be designed to address the needs of diverse groups regardless of race, ethnicity, culture, religion, exceptionality, or gender.
What is "education that is multicultural"?
400
Made responsibility for civil rights a federal rather than a state function.
What is Fourteenth Amendment?
400
Globalization can spur schools to internationalize their curriculum, adopting global content, perspectives, and language instruction.
How can globalization positively affect diversity in education?
400
(1968) Supreme Court found that to forbid the teaching of evolution as a theory violated the First Amendment free speech clause.
What is Epperson v. State of Arkansas
400
Ethnic courses such as Native American Culture, Chicano Literature, and African American History are examples of what?
What are single-group studies?
500
In 1896 the Supreme Court held that segregation was not prohibited by the Constitution, "separate but equal".
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
500
Housing patterns
What phenomenon has influenced the re-segregation of schools in the United States?
500
(2005) A Pennsylvania federal court judge ruled that requiring the teaching of "intelligent design" as an alternative theory to evolution was unconstitutional on the grounds that intelligent design was a form of creationism and thus violated the Establishment of the First Amendment.
What is Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District
500
Teachers who incorporate a multicultural approach utilize material, concepts, and perspectives of many different individuals from diverse groups into their lessons.