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Miscellaneous
Multicultural Links 
Center for
Multilingual, Multicultural Research
Bilingual
/ ESL / Multicultural Education Resources
Children's
Books - Culture and Tradition
A
listing of links to Multicultural books for children from About.com.
Equity Center
Helping
Schools and Communities Meet the Diverse Needs of All Students.
Located at the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) in Portland,
Oregon, the Equity Center is one of 10 regional equity assistance centers
funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The Equity Center provides
training and technical assistance within the larger context of school improvement.
It assists public school staff in providing equitable, high quality education
to all learners.
How to Choose
the Best Multicultural Books
Instructor invites
five children's literature specialists to give their candid advice
on selecting books about or related to Native Americans, Latinos, African
Americans, Jews, and Asian Americans.
Intercultural
E-Mail Classroom Connections
IECC
(Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections) is a free service to help
teachers link with partners in other countries and cultures for e-mail
classroom pen-pal and project exchanges. Since its creation in 1992,
IECC has distributed over 28,000 requests for e-mail partnerships. At last
count, more than 7650 teachers in 82 countries were participating in one
or more of the IECC lists.
Little Explorer's
Children's Dictionary
A picture dictionary
format is used to link to hundreds of carefully chosen child friendly sites
around the world. Since the pictures are links, even pre-readers can surf
with a minimum of help and guidance from their favorite adult. Older kids
can use Little Explorers as a school reference. English, English-French,
English-German, English-Portuguese, or English-Spanish versions.
Multicultural
Book Reviews
A
site where educators share reviews on Multicultural literature.
Multicultural
Calendar for Kids
Unique
ways KIDLINK kids are celebrating their country's holidays and festivals.
The entries might contain recipes for holiday foods, historical background,
significance of the holidays and the special ways in which these days are
observed. Calendar entries are rich in local customs that perhaps
cannot be found in books.
Multicultural
Education Pathfinder
An overview of resources
germane to multicultural education and to some extent will mirror the breadth
of the subject through the inclusion of materials bearing on various aspects
of cultural, racial/ethnic, social, linguistic, and sexual difference and
identity.
Multicultural
Crafts for Kids
Crafts
for many different cultures from About.com.
Multicultural
Pavilion
Creator
Paul Gorski strives to provide resources for educators to explore and discuss
multicultural education; to facilitate opportunities for educators to work
toward self-awareness and development; and to provide forums for Multicultural
education resources and dialogues for educators and students.
NAME
The
National Association for Multicultural Education
Thirty Multicultural
Books Every Child Should Know
A
list compiled by Ginny Moore Kruse and Kathleen T. Horning of the
Cooperative
Children's Book Center at the School of Education University of Wisconsin-Madison.
World Wise
Schools
World
Wise Schools is an innovative global education program that provides students
in the United States with a view of life in one of the more than 80 countries
where Peace Corps Volunteers serve.
Graphics on the Multicultural
pages courtesy of:
Microsoft
Clip Gallery Live 2000
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