Argues that urban public schools' multicultural curriculum either bridges or fragments students' racial and ethnic differences. Further, it maintains that racial and ethnic conflict intensifies when school officials attempt to design their multicultural curriculum around the themes of citizenship and community which makes student differences…

Affirmative action policies have played a critical role in promoting equal opportunity for both Latino faculty and Latino students in higher education. Affirmative action, one of the social programs that evolved from the civil rights movement, was aimed at increasing opportunities employment and education for historically underrepresented groups…

The purpose of this book is to stimulate ideas leading to a sharing of approaches, strategies, and methodologies applicable to the education of Puerto Ricans. Following introductory material, 18 papers are presented, the first 10 of which are in Spanish. Titles and authors are: (1) "El maestro que Puerto Rico necesita," Leonides Santos…