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Download full textOlson, Ruth Anne – 1991
This paper discusses the problems faced by Minnesota's Supporting Diversity in Schools organization in communicating their goal of making schools responsive to students of differing ethnic backgrounds. It was found that using terms such as "multicultural curriculum" and "isolation of schools and communities of color from one…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Economically Disadvantaged
Peer reviewedFirestone, William A.; And Others – Teachers College Record, 1992
A discussion of recent trends in state educational reform stresses the importance of addressing two challenges: teaching all students higher order thinking and developing more systematic, coherent policies. The article describes the challenges, examines how state policies in the 1980s addressed them and how districts responded, and suggests future…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
