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Assessing Preservice Teachers’ Concerns And Comforts With Multicultural Education, Carmen Montecinos, Francisco Rios
Assessing Preservice Teachers’ Concerns And Comforts With Multicultural Education, Carmen Montecinos, Francisco Rios
Woodring College of Education Faculty Publications
Currently, racial/ethnic minority students represent a third of the K12 student enrollment across the United States; by the year 2035, they will represent over 50 percent (American Educational Research Association, Division K Newsletter, 1998). This significant increase in the ethnic diversity of the K12 population, coupled with persistent disparities in educational attainment among various ethnic/racial groups in the United States, has supported an educational reform movement known as multicultural education (Banks, 1997). This movement’s goal is to redesign schooling in ways that "increase educational equity for a range of cultural, ethnic, and economic groups" (Banks, 1997, p. 7). Teacher …
Cbe Auction Database: Its Creation, Explanation And Use, Jillian Wallach
Cbe Auction Database: Its Creation, Explanation And Use, Jillian Wallach
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
The CBE Auction Database is the result of an assignment designated by Professor Auer in the College of Business and Economics. At the start of the 1999 Winter quarter Database Development course, Auer announced to the class he was replacing his usual quarterly work load with a sort of "experimental" hands-on assignment. He believed the class would greatly benefit from an opportunity to build a "real-world" database, rather than his trademark textbook assignments. With this goal in mind, Auer requested that the class form groups of four and begin planning a database to accommodate the informational needs of the upcoming …