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Race-Conscious Adoption Choices, Multiraciality, and Color-Blind Racial Ideology
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Sweeney, Kathryn A. – Family Relations, 2013
Analysis of interview data illustrates how White adoptive parents rationalize choices regarding adoptee race. Parents who were willing to adopt children of color stressed unwillingness to adopt Black children. The preference for adopting multiracial children goes against the prevalent method of racial classification, hypodescent, by defining…
Descriptors: Adoption, Whites, Racial Differences, African American Children
Just Schools: Pursuing Equality in Societies of Difference
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Minow, Martha, Ed.; Shweder, Richard A., Ed.; Markus, Hazel Rose, Ed. – Russell Sage Foundation, 2008
Educators and policymakers who share the goal of equal opportunity in schools often hold differing notions of what entails a just school in multicultural America. Some emphasize the importance of integration and uniform treatment for all, while others point to the benefits of honoring cultural diversity in ways that make minority students feel at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Muslims, Equal Education, School Choice
Bilingual Learning Disability Services in Illinois--A Myth?: A Look at Policy.
Assaf-Keller, Miryam – 1990
This paper reviews statutes and recommended practices established by the Illinois State Board of Education for the identification of learning disabilities (LD) in culturally and linguistically diverse exceptional (CLDE) students, and reports the findings of a survey on LD bilingual services provided to Hispanic students in the Chicago (Illinois)…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cultural Differences, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Discrimination