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Great Moon ( A Site about Native American Culture)

http://www.greatmoon.com/

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

www.edc.org/WomensEquity/

Part of the History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 teachers. Includes sections on women’s 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/Women’s Educational Equity Act

http://www.edc.org/CEEC/WEEA

Resources and information about the Women’s 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.

[NEW!]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

http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu

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.

[NEW!]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.

[NEW!]The Campaign against 227: A Postmorten

http://cie.ed.asu.edu/cber/BRJ/articles/Issue1Crawford.html

[NEW!]The Paradox of bilingual education

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JWCRAWFORD/paradox.htm

[NEW!]The National Clearinghouse of Bilingual Education

http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/

 

Children’s Literature

http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/special/kay/childlit.html

Lists young children’s picture books with positive images of people from a range of ethnic groups; also lists positive gender-fair books.

U.S. Department of Education

http://www.ed.gov