Developing Multicultural Organizations
by
Bailey W. Jackson and Evangelina Holvino

A good model to use for assessing organizational elements and stages.

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Making The Grade – A Racial Justice Report Card

A Racial Justice Report Card. A school administrator wants to know if Latinos have the same educational opportunities as other students in the school district. Latino graduation rates are low, but what do the numbers really mean?

Three African American parents discover that their kids, in separate incidents, have each been suspended for “disrespecting” their teacher. Are these isolated incidents or are they indicative of a broader racial pattern?

Making the Grade can help answer that question. It is a new tool to assess how your schools measure up to racial equity standards. This easy-to-use computer program walks journalists, parents, students, or teachers through a series of research tasks. Making the Grade then produces an “A” through “F” grade and explains where the school or district is failing their responsibility to equal education.

Making the Grade Editorial Consultant: We Interrupt This Message.

Making the Grade: A Racial Justice Report Card is available for download:
Download Making the Grade
2.0 MB Zipped Archive Includes:
Making the Grade Windows Installer
Read Me Document
Education & Race: A Journalist’s Handbook PDF 

A Racial Justice Report Card. A school administrator wants to know if Latinos have the same educational opportunities as other students in the school district. Latino graduation rates are low, but what do the numbers really mean?

Three African American parents discover that their kids, in separate incidents, have each been suspended for “disrespecting” their teacher. Are these isolated incidents or are they indicative of a broader racial pattern?

Making the Grade can help answer that question. It is a new tool to assess how your schools measure up to racial equity standards. This easy-to-use computer program walks journalists, parents, students, or teachers through a series of research tasks. Making the Grade then produces an “A” through “F” grade and explains where the school or district is failing their responsibility to equal education.

Making the Grade Editorial Consultant: We Interrupt This Message.

Making the Grade: A Racial Justice Report Card is available for download:
Download Making the Grade
2.0 MB Zipped Archive Includes:
Making the Grade Windows Installer
Read Me Document
Education & Race: A Journalist’s Handbook PDF

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The Implementation Checklist for Supporting Multicultural Learning
a product of the High School Reform Strategy Toolkit at www.highschooltoolkit.com

Note: I don’t care for the term “multiculturalism” since to me it sounds like an ideology or set of religious beliefs.

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The Implicit Association Test: A means to uncover unconscious biases (https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/).

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Curriculum Guidelines for Multicultural Education
Prepared by the NCSS Task Force on Ethnic Studies Curriculum Guidelines
Adopted by NCSS Board of Directors, 1976, revised 1991

Introduction

Publishing a revision of Curriculum Guidelines for Multicultural Education is especially appropriate and timely because of the significant increase in the nation’s population of people of color that has occurred since they were published sixteen years ago. The percentage of people of color in the nation will continue to rise throughout the early decades of the next century. Indeed, the 1990 census revealed that one out of every four people who live in the United States is a person of color and that one out of every three people will be a person of color by the turn of the century. Likewise, the ethnic and racial makeup of the nation’s classrooms is changing significantly. Students of color constitute a majority in twenty-five of the nation’s largest school districts and in California, our most populous state with a population of thirty million people. Students of color will make up nearly half (46 percent) of the nation’s school-age youth by 2020, and about 27 percent of those students will be victims of poverty.

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Part 3: The Multicultural Education Program Evaluation Checklist1.0 Does ethnic and cultural diversity permeate the total school environment?

1.1 Are ethnic content and perspectives incorporated into all aspects of the curriculum, preschool through 12th grade and beyond?

1.2 Do instructional materials treat racial and ethnic differences and groups honestly, realistically, and sensitively?

1.3 Do school libraries and resource centers offer a variety of materials on the histories, experiences, and cultures of many racial, ethnic, and cultural groups?

1.4 Do school assemblies, decorations, speakers, holidays, and heroes reflect racial, ethnic, and cultural group differences?

1.5 Are extracurricular activities multiethnic and multicultural?

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