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ERIC Number: EJ614636
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-0031-7217
Multicultural Education and the Standards Movement: A Report from the Field.
Bohn, Anita Perna; Sleeter, Christine E.
Phi Delta Kappan, v82 n2 p156-59 Oct 2000
The current obsession with standardizing curricula and measuring output may further reduce teacher agency and marginalize segments of our society that are already cheated by the system. Enormous discrepancies exist among public-school facilities, resources, and teachers. Multicultural education will suffer unless legislatures address these problems. (MLH)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum, Educational Equity (Finance), Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Measurement, Multicultural Education, Poverty, Social Class, Socioeconomic Status, State Legislation, Textbook Content, World History
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers: California