Cultural Diversity in Education

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This paper examines why teachers today must pursue the goal of a multicultural school system that provides all children with equal access to success in school. As Feinberg 1996 notes all parents, regardless of their race or ethnicity, want their children to have the best education possible and expect their school system to provide one. The paper shows that if an African American or other minority student cannot speak, read or write English well enough to progress in the school curriculum, it makes no difference whether their limited English proficiency is caused by cultural differences or by a disability.

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"America's burgeoning demographic diversity is reflected in the nation's schools. In 1984, approximately one in four school children in the United States were minority students. According to Cardenas, (1995) by the year 2020 that figure will increase to nearly one in two, and many of these students will be poor. In the twenty-five largest American school districts, minority students comprised seventy-two percent of the total school enrollment in 1994, and that trend has continued to rise steadily over the past decade. Subsequently, teachers today must pursue the goal of a multicultural school system that provides all children with equal access to success in school."

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