This web page was built by the the Internet Group of Multicultural Education, Education 419.  Additional resources for this page were provided by  Dr. Jean Moule.

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1. Links to sites on how to use of the internet.
2. Teacher Resources.
3. History and Social Science.
4. Gender Issues.
5. Exceptionality.
6. Religion in Public School.
7. Educational Reform.
8. General Multicultural Issues.

• Multicultural Pavilion
  http://curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU/go/multicultural  This site is a great informational resource for teachers. It consists of resources for teachers, multicultural activities, multicultural research resources, awareness activities, and links to hundreds of other Internet sites and resources.
• French Culture
  http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/bnf/bnf0001.html  Explore the history of France from the late 8th century to the present at this site. Learn about monarchs and monasteries, the path to royal absolutism, the rise and fall of the absolute monarchy, and the change from empire to democracy.
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• Exploring Ancient World Cultures
  http://eawc.evansville.edu/index.htm  Explore the ancient cultures of The Near East, India, Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, Early Islam, and Medieval Europe. Over time it will include chapter-length histories for each of the eight cultures listed above.
  [Background Information]
• Gold File Catalog
  http://www.aeis.asu.edu/alpha/a873_1.html  This site explores issues involved in developing and implementing curriculum that reflects the diversity of our multicultural society. It examines Eurocentric, Afrocentric, and inclusive curriculum approaches and gives examples of multicultural programs.
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• PBS Online
  http://www.pbs.org/  This site contains the teacher connex which ahs lesson plan ideas in social studies, the arts, science, and math. It even has a section for Preschool. PBS also has a section for kids. They can play games, do activities, and "babble on" if they have something to say.
• Criteria for Evaluating Multicultural Children's Literature
  http://members.aol.com/mcsing29/bookcrit.htm  Set of 17 recommended criteria one can follow when evaluating children's literature for multicultural content.
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• Diversity 1
  http://www.isomedia.com/homes/jmele/homepage.html  Book review for multicultural books. This site crates a qualitative list of multicultural literature for K-12 educators. It also provides information about multicultural literature that other educators have used successfully. The books are listed my subject matter. It even reviews textbooks.
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• Diversity 2
  http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/diversit.html  Links to information on topics such as Disabilities, Women studies, Jewish Resource, Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanics, the cultural landscape, and many more.
  [Background Information]
• Conflict Resolution the Peaceful Way
  http://www.stark.k12.oh.us/Docs/units/conflict/defaoult/htm  Lesson plans for social studies, language arts, and science that incorporate conflict resolution. Ideas for other areas such as math, art and music, technology, health, and community.
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• Resolving Conflict Creatively
  http://www.benjerry.com/esr/index.html  Has links to Resources, Kid's Conscious acts of Peace, Kids Keeping the Peace, and Peaceable Classrooms.
  [Teacher Resource]

General History, Human Rights, and Tolerance Sites

• Study Web
  http://www.studyweb.com/
  This is an excellent site for lessons and information on history, human rights, discrimination, prejudice, and tolerance from around the world. It is relevant to all age groups from kindergarten to high school. It contains numerous resources.
• Big Sky
  gopher://bvsd.k12.co.us:70/11/Educational Resources/Lesson Plans/Big%20Sky/social studies
  This site contains many lessons related to history, democracy, civil rights, tolerance, and discrimination in the United States. It contains information and lessons for all grade levels.
• Anti-bias Teacher Education Project
  http://www.tulane.edu/~so-inst/toleranc.html
  Teaching guides for many books related to discrimination and civil rights including Teaching Schindler, A House Divided (Civil War), Eyes on the Prize (civil rights), and When the Future was the Past (Plessy v. Ferguson).
• Human Rights Web
  http://www.hrweb.org/
  An excellent site for information and lessons on human rights around the world.

Holocaust Education

• Remembering Education
  http://remember.org/educate/index.html
  A source for lesson plans, resources, and more. The focus of the site changes but it currently features Holocaust education for all ages.
• Online Education
  http://remember.org/educate.htm
  Links to numerous Holocaust sites for all age groups.
• Anne Frank Online
  http://www.annefrank.com/
  This site contains numerous links to related sites as well as educational resources and information on her life. The definitive site for information on Anne Frank.
• A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
  http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/activity/activity.htm
  Excellent source for many lesson plans related to the Holocaust. For all ages.

• Native Americans
  http://www.ed.uri.edu/smart/homepage/indians.htm
  This site contains many links which provide information about the many Native American tribes living in the United States.
• The Heard Museum
  http://hanksville.phast.umass.edu/defs/independent/Heard/Heard.html
  The home page for a museum focusing on teaching appreciation and respect for Native people and their cultural heritage.
• National Civil Rights Museum
  http://www.mecca.org/~crights/
  Information about current events and historical events centering on civil rights.
• African-American Heritage
  http://www.teachnet.org/blueplate/BH/bhml.html
  This site offers a curriculum guide for teaching African-American heritage.
• For Teachers - History
  http://www.unhcr.ch/teach/tchhist/tchhist.htm
  This site offers lessons on refugees for ages 9-18.
• Ellis Island - Through America's Gateway
  http://www.cport.k12ky.us/ffhs/Curriculum/History/ELLIS/index.htm
  A fascinating tour of the arrival point for millions of new Americans. This site contains many related resources.

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• States Educational Agencies (all)--Grades K-12 http://www.ode.state.or.us/uslinks.html This site provides a link to all the states' educational agencies which enables you to connect to many educational links. Each state had sites that provided gender info.
• Key Issues for Women and Mathematics--Grades K-12 http://forum.swarthmore.edu/social/math.women.html This site addresses issues pertaining to women and math as well as other helpful links on related topics.
• School women of the Prairies and Plains: Personal Narratives from Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska, 1860s-1920s.--Grades K-12 http://ericae.net/db/riecije/ed403100.html An abstract about the lives of schoolwomen of the prairies and plains. Document contains narratives, notes, pictures and references.
• Unit on Gender--Grades 3-12 http://lama.kcc.hawaii.edu/asdp/women's/easian/china/gender.html This is a unit that can be adapted for different ages that centers on Language Arts. There is a reference list included that ties in literature for the unit which can be used exclusive of the unit.
• Gender Equity Page: Dedicated to Boys' Education and Fathers'--Grades K-12 http://personal.pitnet/knechamk/ and men. It has specific educational site links as well as father issues. There are facts, statistics, and case examples provided.
• Women-Related Email Lists About Education--Grades K-12 http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/f_educ.html There are many email sources for information about women in education and educators.
• Web Sites Addressing Gender Equity--Grades K-12 http://www.lalc.k12.ca.us/essay/5%5f1/gendereqresourcelist.html A great source for web sites that specifically address gender equity. There are four different centers listed that focus on gender issues.
• Gender Equity Centers--Grades K-12 http://www.genderequity.org/ This site offers resources, events, and information about males and females. One site that is linked from this site offers a document "Honoring Black Women," which offers many differnent women and their background information.
• Diversity--Grades K-12 http://www.execpc.com.~dboals/nativam.html This is a super site for lots of connections to other sites about women's history. There are 18 different sites about women in history many with resources and all with valuable information, plus 14 other related sites.
• References--Grades K-12 http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/content/cnareas/science/sc2refs.html A list of 22 different resources or references related to gender equity.
• Background and Importance of the Gender Equity Expert Panel--Grades K-12 http://www.edc.org/womensequity/pubs/expanel/papers.html Research papers about achieving gender equity in education.
• American Women At Work--Grades K-12 http://socialstudies.com/mar/womenwork.html Information intended to be used as classroom supplements on the topic of "Women at Work." It also offers sites for "Native American Women at Work" and "Women at Work in the Colonies."

More Useful Places for Educators (Multicultural)

• Educational Research--Grades K-12 http://www.citynet/wejhs/research This site offers many links to sites available for research information useful to teachers.
• Multicultural Book Review--Grades K-12 http://www.isomedia.com/homes/jmele/homepage.html Literature reviews broken up into nine different categories, for example, "African American Literature."
• Thirty Multicultural Books Every Child Should Know--Grades Preschool-8 http://www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/25multi.html A list of 30 books that are multicultural in nature. The site is categorized by age levels.

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• Jilliene's Helpful Sites for Educators and Parents of Children With Disablities

http://users.aol.com/jylbear/index.html A web site created by a teacher of students with multiple handicapps. The site contains links for information on various disabilities and then other resources for teachers.
[teacher resource]
• The SPECIAL Edges
  .http://www.blue.net/~goose/
  This site was created by a special educator for others to use as a resource. This includes links to special needs descriptions, teacher materials, legal issues, and more.
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• Teacher Education Division, Council for Exceptional Children
  http://edhd.bdhd.bgsu.edu/faculty/seanj/TED
  This site is still under constuction, but it seems like it may be a useful tool once it is up and running. Take a look in a few months.
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• NICHCY
  http://www.nichy.org/#about
  Nichcy is a national information and referal center for families and educators of people with special needs.
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• The Book on Inclusive Education
  http://www.quasar.ualberta.ca/ddc/incl/resource.htm
  This is a book on the internet for teachers. The topic is inclusive education and includes: case notes, curriculum suggestions, and more. This site really does a good job of presenting material from a classroom perspective.
• Barnes and Noble.com
  http://barnesandnoble.com
  Once you get on to this site, search for "exceptionality". The Barnes and Nobel search engine will look for books with your key word and/or simular topic areas. Also available are prices and ordering abilities.
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• The Beach Center on Families and Disablities
  http://www.lsi.ukans.edu/BEACH
  This is a very educational web site, it talks about familiy issues. The site brings to light issues such as what it might be like to have a child with special needs, IDEA, behaviors, social service providers, policy makers, information on specific disabilities, information on research being done, Beach Center news letters, behavioral support, support organizations, and related links.
• Family Village
  http.//www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/ This site offers a lot of information on disabilities and the community built around those with disabilities. The site not only offers informations but also other services such as ordering adaptive equipment, chat rooms, church group information, and much more.
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• Marc Sheehan's Special Education Page
  http://www.haleyon.com/marcs/sped.html
  This is a web page designed to act as an internet resource that links you to all kinds of special education web sites. This site also includes lesson plans.
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• Why teach about the Catholic Religion?
  http://www.avenue.com/v/cef/cefc30780.html
  This site is a great resource if you're asking this question? It is an interactive comment site where teachers ask questions and give resources to other religious sites.
• Teaching Judaism
  http://www.virtual.co.il/news/jta/nov97/18-spee.html
  Czech discusses current issues on religion. Great resource on another culture and their insight to issues we also deal with in the US.
• Religious Freedom
  http://www/okbu.edu/library/homepage/guides/bibliog/bibchrch.html
  Great site for refreshing the law on teaching religion in public schools. This site has court cases that will help a teacher with religion.
• What about Atheist's?
  http://www.infidels.org/org/ffrf
  A resource that can be used to help understand an Atheist's point of view and how to explain this belief to others and children.
• Teaching Religion Rationally
  http://www.fac.org/publicat/cground/ch07.1html
  Teachers guide on religion without stepping on any toes.
• Teaching about Religion
  http://www.edweek.org/tm/vol-07/06relig/h07
  An overview on issues and examples of classrooms where religion is being taught and how it is working.
• Expressing Religion
  http://www.ed.gov/speeches/08-1995/religion.html
  This site has a statement by a politician on the importance of teaching religion in school. How religion is literature and it needs to be taught and how to accomplish teaching it in the public schools
• A Parents and Teachers guide to Religion in Schools
  http://www.fac.org/publicat/parents/parents.html
  This web site is a good resource for parents and teachers. It gives great advice on religious issue in public schools. Plus, other web sites for further references.
• Tips for Teachers
  http://www.fac.org/publicat/cground/ch102.html
  A resource page for teachers that has teacher resources for teaching religion.

There is a incredible range of ideas that appear under the guise of educational reform, from the market-oriented models of some Charter Schools, to those that are familiar to us from multicultural education. There are also many sites devoted to specific issues such as the role of technology in the reform movement. I will focus this survey on reform from a multicultural perspective, but you need to be aware that most of the sites you find under educational reform are from other perspectives.

• The Accelerated Schools Project of the Stanford University School of Education. http://www.stanford.edu/group/ASP/ Accelerated Schools set a goal of bringing ALL students into the educational mainstream by the end of elementary school so they can perform at levels appropriate to their age group. They use the term "accelerated" because at-risk students must learn at a faster rate than more privileged students- not at a slower rate that drags them farther and farther behind. Only an enrichment strategy, not a remedial one, can offer hope for reversing the present educational crisis of at-risk students.
• Los Aneles Open Charter School. http://www.gsh.org/schools/USA/CA/OCS5573/   This is the home page of the Los Aneles Open Charter School. Its diverse student body focuses their education around environmental issues. Cultural diversity is an asset. Through global telecommunication projects, shared experiences, social studies, and team activities, students are encouraged to develop an awareness of themselves, others, and the world itself. Accurate cultural information, based on the experiences of students and their families, is directly integrated into the curriculum.
• The home page of the The Multicultural Small Learning Community of Furness High School. http://www.philsch.k12.pa.us/schools/furness/Multicultural.html The curriculum offered consists of a four year sequential program leading to graduation for college bound and non-college bound alike.  It seeks to prepare students for participation in an increasingly multicultural and multiracial nation, and involves community service and study abroad.
• NEA School Refom page. http://www.nea.org/reform/ This National Education Association page contains links to sites for each state.  The state sites list specific reform projects. The only project listed in Oregon, (http://www.nea.org/reform/refrm_or.html) is the Association for Direct Instruction (ADI). Its focus is accelerating learning by maximizing efficiency in the design and delivery of instruction. The California site has many projects, some of which focus on multicultural issues.
• New Horizons for Learning. http://www.newhorizons.org/multicultural.html   This is the multicultural education site of  New Horizons for Learning, a virtural community, supporting expanded visions of learning.  A virtural community is connected via the Internet. This site has links many articles focused on multicultural education, several of them involve issues related to school reform.
• Science Education Reform for All http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/Diversity/General/Reference/reform This is a brief outline of a report entitled Science Education Reform for All (SERA): A Look at How State Departments of Education are Infusing Equity and Excellence into PreK-12 Systemic Reform. The report grows out of the SERA Project to develop a technical assistance program for state departments of education or state education agencies. The program would ensure that the benefits of science/mathematics education reform efforts would accrue equally to all students, particularly low-income minority students and inner-city students.
• Ethics, Diversity, and Gender. http://tiger.coe.missouri.edu/~coegrad/leadership/ethics.html Part of the Univ of Missouri-Columbia, College of Education. A this site catolgues on-line articles on issues related to multicultural education and diversity.
• Multicultural Education Reform Programs. http://spot.colorado.edu/~aises/aises.html Welcome to the American Indian Science and Engineering Society Multicultural Educational Reform Programs. This site provides a framework for learning about science, mathematics, and technology. By addressing each of these components, American Indian and other underrepresented minority students and their teachers can make meaningful cultural connections to teaching and learning.
• Multicultural Science and Math. http://www.jb.com/~btennison/multisci.html   What multicultural education means to standards-based reform in science and mathematics education.   It has everything to do with how curriculum is designed.
• Education Reforms and Students at Risk: A Review of the Current State of the Art. January 1994. http://www.ed.gov/pubs/EdReformStudies/EdReforms/index.html The site is a Table of Contents for this on-line publication.  There are 9 chapters, with links to 3 to 5 articles per chapter.
• Rethinking Teacher Unionism. http://www.lol.shareworld.com/zmag/articles/karp1.htm  For seven years, the National Coalition of Education Activists (NCEA) has been putting this idea to the test by attempting to build a multi-racial, grassroots network of parents, teachers and community activists working in many different ways for school change across the country. This is a summary of a a recent NCEA conference on this topic.
• This way to the Multicultural Pavilion, http://curry.edschool.Virginia.edu/go/multicultural/, the home page to a variety of resources, from activities, to famous speech, to muticulturalism and the Internet.  There are links to reforn related topics.
• This is ERICs (Educational Resources Information Center) School Reform home page. http://eric-web.tc.columbia.edu/administration/reform/ Look here for a variety of articles that may be of interest.
• Education Reform and Social Change. Multicultural Voices, Struggles, and Visions, by Walsh, Catherine Walsh., Ed. 1996. http://eric-web.tc.columbia.edu/abstracts/ed403364.html  This is an abstract of an article available through ERIC.  I have included it as an example of what is available on multicultural issues via ERIC.
• Yahoo's Educational Foum. http://www.yahoo.com/Education/Reform/ A Comprehensive Legislative Update on Education (CLUE) - provides daily updates over the Internet concerning state policy issues of concern to K-12 education. There were 12 links to other websites, one of them was the American Indian Science and Engineering Society Multicultural Educational Reform Programs listed above.

Here are a few web sites that pertain to general multicultural issues.  These were located by Cherie Rusk, the Multicultural Librarian, Valley Library

•  http://www.quiknet.com/mbt/mpec/mpec.html  Multicultural Publishing and Education Council (MPEC),  a national networking and support organization for indepedent publishers of multicultural materials.
• http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/cema.html  California Ethnic and multicultural Archives, UC Santa Barbara.
• http://www.libertynet.org/~balch/balch.html   The Balch Institute, Philadelphia, P.A. gives you a direct line to what's happening with diversity issues in our own nation.
• http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu  Part of the Chicano/Latino Electronic Network (CLEN) and is a joint project of the Chicano Studies Research Institute at the UCSB.
• http://granite.sentex.net/~skeogh/multicul.html  Multicultural reources for adult educators.  Acollection of on-line journal articales and discussion groups.
• http://earth.library.pitt.edu/~lmitten/indians.html  Native American Home Pages.  From librarian Lisa Mitten's web site at the University of Pittsburgh.  An extensive listing of primary sources for tribal communication.
• http://www.wce.wwu.edu/edsites/mult/multi.html  Center for Educational Pluralism at Woodring College of Education, Western Washington U.
• http://www.ORST.EDU/dept/culture/mcalendar/mulcal.html; Our very own Website's Multicultural Calendar