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His ideas revolutionize developmental psychology, and how aduluts (including teachers) think about children.
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In response to the large influx of Cuban immigrants, a Florida school is the first to offer an English/Spanish curriculum.
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Discrimination based on race, sex, or national origin is now prohibited in American schools. This paves the way for multicultural educational institutions.
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The Higher Education Act provides funding for access to education by lower- and middle-income students, allowing the poor--a greater percentage of whom are racial and ethnic minorities--more opportunities to enter the classroom.
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This law, until its repeal in 2002, encouraged cultural diversity and instruction in other languages in schools.
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The Title IX provision of The Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits discrimination based on sex in federally-funded schools. This is a key step to integrating classrooms not just by race or ethnicity, but by sex.
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Signed by Jimmy Carter, the Refugee Act allows millions of refugee children emmigrate to the U.S., engendering countless new multicultural classsrooms.
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This law increases the annual immigration into the United States, adding diveresity to the nation's classrooms.
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The Higher Education Act continues to provide funding for access to education by lower- and middle-income students, allowing the poor--a greater percentage of whom are racial and ethnic minorities--more opportunities to enter the classroom.
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The economic hardship leads to a familiar and predictable reaction: xenophobia. Multiculuralism is seen as an affront to the American identity in the years ahead, and minorities are feared more and more by the white middle class.
