Presents, in a farewell column, some reflections on educational issues and movements concerning rainbow students, including self-esteem, story sharing, nonverbal differences, racial identification, and testing. (TB)

Describes a volunteer effort involving community church groups and secondary school children in an effort to provide a summer learning experience for children in public housing. Reviews advantages of the program and what can be learned from it. (TB)

Suggests ways teachers can find and encourage gifted minority students. (JL)

Gives a narrative memoir of one English teacher's positive experiences spending part of summer vacation in a multicultural island community. (HB)

Discusses a method developed by a teacher to help students improve their language proficiency while at the same time enhancing their understanding of the literature they read. Considers how to use learning modalities different from traditional reading and writing. (HB)

Gives advice for English teachers faced with the increasingly multiethnic makeup of their classrooms. Discusses what rainbow teachers must not do along with what they must do. (HB)

Describes how one English teacher discovered the complex differences in nonverbal communications among her students. Argues that a proper understanding of such cultural differences can enhance teacher/student relationships and classroom harmony. (HB)

Describes the diversity of learning styles and intelligences that students bring to the classroom. Suggests ways to reach a variety of learners and provides the implications broadly speaking for education at large. (HB)

Gives an overview of the problems and issues that might be faced by both teachers and students of color in today's schools. (HB)

Describes the diversity of spoken English in high school classrooms in America. Advocates coming to terms with matters of language diversity. Suggests ways that this might be accomplished. (HB)

Explains how teachers can help their students to explore trickster tales by reading those tales written down, gathering those passed on by word of mouth, writing some of their own, and considering what these tales tell their readers about the real world. Provides suggestions for a coordinated group discussion of trickster tales. (TB)