Multicultural Resources on the Web |
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updated 1/09/01
Great Moon ( A Site about Native American Culture)
It has excellent resources for teachers interested in incorporating Native American issues and texts into courses. The main pages seem a little commercial but the internal resource links are very useful.
College of Education Courses that Address Diversity
Asian American Resources
http://www.mit.edu:800a/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/l/r/irie/www/aar.html
Extensive list of resources related to organizations, culture, and facts about Asian American Culture.
Acquiring a Second Language for School
http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/ncbepubs/directions/04.htm
Diversity
Part of the History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 teachers. Includes sections on womens studies, Native American studies, Asian Americans, and African Americans.
Diversity Web
http://www.inform.umd.edu/diversity.web
EDEQUITY Network
To subscribe - majordomo@confer.edc.org (send message: "subscribe edequity" or send messages to edequity@tristram.edc.org )
A list serve for educators to exchange ideas and information on equity issues.
Equity Online/Womens Educational Equity Act
http://www.edc.org/CEEC/WEEA
Resources and information about the Womens Educational Equity Act (WEEA) Resource Center providing gender fair multi-cultural materials, training, and discussion lists.
Black History Museum
http://www.afro.am.org/history/html
Interactive exhibits for students on African American history prepared by the Afro-American Newspaper Company, Baltimore, Maryland.
Hispanic Heritage
http://www.clark.net/oub/jgbustam/heritage.html
A listing of web sites relating to Hispanic culture and history.
Language Policy website
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/home.htm
Maryland Statewide Equity Resource Center
http://www.inform.UMD.edu/ERC
Includes information about the Center for Maryland Educators, links to other equity web sites, listing of books and resources, and relevant clippings from newspapers and magazines; includes catalog listings of all print and video materials available for loan.
Multicultural Internet Sites
http://www.qualcomm.com/users/gnash/meult.html
Lists several web sites and mailing lists that deal with multi-cultural issues.
Multicultural Listserv
MULTC-ED@UMDD.UMD.EDU
A subscription discussion network to share resources and ideas related to multi-cultural education.
National Association for Multi-cultural Education
http://www.inform.UMD.edu.8080/NAME
Home page of NAME, membership organization promoting multi-cultural research and practices, pre-K through higher education.
National Clearinghouse on Bilingual Education
Information on bilingual education resources, policies, and research.
Native Web
http://web.maxwell.syr.edu/nativeweb/indexhtml
Include many Native American sites on the web and an index to other sites, especially those dealing with Native American arts, museums, and music.
African American History Historical Text Archive
http://www.msstate.edu/archives/historyusa/afroamer/afro.html
A comprehensive listing of web sites on the internet related to related African American issues.
American Jewish History
http://muse.jhr.edu/press/rocs/ajh/html
Publication of the American Jewish Historical Society, including information on antisemitism.
Asian American History Links
http://www.vcr.edu/hgig/hist/topics/asian.html
Extensive list of world wide web sites to many resources or Asian American history; reflections of many Asian cultures.
School Effectiveness for Language Minority Students - Collier and Thomas
http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/ncbepubs/resource/effectiveness/index.htm
The African American Mosaic
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/African/Into.html
A Library of Congress resource guide for study of Black history and culture; surveys the variety of collections in Library of Congress including books, periodicals, music, and film.
The Campaign against 227: A Postmorten
http://cie.ed.asu.edu/cber/BRJ/articles/Issue1Crawford.html
The Paradox of bilingual
education
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/paradox.htm
The
National Clearinghouse of Bilingual Education
Childrens Literature
http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/childlit.html
Lists young childrens picture books with positive images of people from a range of ethnic groups; also lists positive gender-fair books.
U.S. Department of Education