Schools in New York City are continually pressed to meet the demands of an ever-
increasing multicultural population, compounded by the pressures exerted by the No Child …

Current statistics on enrollment in teacher educa-tion programs indicate significant lack of
minority representation. African-Americans comprise only 6.8% of the 1989 enrollment in …

Background/Context Educating pre-service teachers to develop multicultural awareness,
knowledge, and skills for teaching diverse students is a major responsibility of teacher …

While student populations grow more diverse, the preservice teacher population is
becoming more homogeneous, primarily White and middle-class. One challenge for teacher …

Three decades ago, in 1972, the first of several Commissions on Multicultural Education
sponsored by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) made …

W xr THY IS IT that, after more than a decade of rhetoric and official declarations, multicul
tural education remains a segregated enterprise in schools of edu cation, with little or no …

Resistance and Renegotiation Page 1 SPRING 2009 37 Research Aja E. LaDuke is a
doctoral candidate in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction of the Neag School of …

When their teachers are well equipped to foster inclusive and equitable classrooms,
students from marginalized communities show higher rates of academic achievement …

This article explains several reasons why multicultural preservice teacher education is
important and suggests some ways it can be better accomplished. The authors make a …