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| What We're About You have entered a learning space dedicated to helping you acquire the tools and develop the skills necessary to promote an equitable, inclusive and respectful, socially just, learning community in your classroom. Our Rationale In an academic climate dominated by regressive reforms, such as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, and in an era where anti-immigrant, 'English only' legislation has captured the political zeitgeist, it is often all to easy to succomb to defeatest logic suggesting that their is little to be accomplished in the way of transformative education within the confines of the classroom. However, a growing body of research indicates that the dedicated educator is indeed capable of affecting equitable and socially just models of learning within the ethnically, linguistically and culturally diverse classroom, while successfully negotiating institutional and curricular constraints.
| What You'll Find Inside The essays, articles and books reviewed in this website address practical steps that the concerned teacher can take, in order to ensure that learners of all backgrounds are granted opportunities to thrive academically within classroom environments supportive of their unique ethnic, cultural and linguistic heritage. Schneider Media 2006 |
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