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Cortes, Carlos – Reaching Today's Youth: The Community Circle of Caring Journal, 1999
Explains how a strong trend in "multiracializing" is increasingly evident in schools. As a result, school curriculum should provide opportunities for students to investigate their unique heritage, and to develop a better understanding of the heritages, experiences, and cultures of different groups of Americans. (Author/JDM)
Descriptors: Cultural Background, Culturally Relevant Education, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Schwartz, Wendy – 1998
The purpose of this digest is to help educators develop a curriculum for multiracial students that fosters their ability to develop a positive identity and achieve academically. To this end, the digest briefly reviews identity formation in multiracial children and then presents schoolwide and classroom strategies that have been shown to be…
Descriptors: Child Development, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education