Provides services to school and college teachers, organizations, students, groups and individuals concerned with multicultural education and the teaching of foreign languages.
A national multicultural education program that promotes student sensitivity and appreciation for cultural diversity. Focuses on the different cultural groups that shaped this nation. Addresses feelings of cultural estrangement, rejection, and the resulting apathy as a root of chronic school failure. Analyzes the experiences of enslavement, migration, immigration, and voluntary or enforced resettlement. Instills creative and critical thinking skills which are required for responsible citizenship and achievement in a multicultural society and global economy.
This is the national center for services to state-based folklife programs, often within state arts councils. It houses a curriculum resource bank for folklore materials. Request a copy of A Teacher's Guide to Folklife Resources for K-12 Classrooms and to learn who your state folklorist is.
This is the major membership organization for academic and public folklorists. The education section publishes a newsletter twice a year and sponsors meetings.
The Center develops and disseminates materials to enhance teachers¹ effectiveness in the classroom, including textbooks and resource guides.
A non-profit education association that is a national voice on pre-service, graduate, and inservice teacher education issues. Services: Provides professional development opportunities through its publications, national conferences, workshops and academies.
Documents and interprets Americans multicultural heritage for teachers and students. Its extensive library and museum holdings portray the story of immigration and multiculturalism in the United States.
This multicultural resource center for teachers is part of a collaboration between folklorists and the college of education.
ABC seeks our talented and motivated children of color from all economic levels throughout the country. The Affiliated Colleges Program includes more than 75 selective higher education institutions that are committed to both academic excellence and increased minority enrollment.
Promotes quality education and the value of cultural pluralism in schools through research, training and service projects. Its Resource Center Library houses current research, literature, testing instrument, curricular materials in these areas: English as a Second Language (ESL), cultural pluralism, multicultural education, gender equity, bilingual special education.
The Center develops educational materials for teachers, supports community scholars, and houses resources such as Folkways Records.
Established in 1966, the Center's Sociologists, psychologists, social psychologists and other scientists conduct programmatic research to improve the education system: how changes in the social organization of schools can make them more effective and promote academic achievement and development of potential and career success. The Center includes the National Center for Research on Effective Schooling for Disadvantaged Students, the National Center on Families, Communities, Schools and Children's learning, and the Baltimore Public Education Institute.
Based on its research and that of important educators, the Center provides strategies to help develop arts-integrated schools that recognize diversity. It uses arts-integrated curriculum to establish standards and expectations, and performance of students and schools, particularly students at risk of academic failure. Traditional academic subjects are taught through art forms as well as through language and logic (arts integration).
Serves schools, parents, advocates and any others who are building a multicultural U.S. society. Supports the progress of immigrant students. Provides access to growing collection of resources to help foreign-born children and families interact with public schools. It is part of a national network of 24 education advocacy organizations.
Founded in 1942, CORE remains committed to unearthing racism and dissemination in the United States, Africa, and Caribbean. It focuses on economic development, education, job training, and afterschool programs.
One of 10 regional educational laboratories in the US, primarily serves the states of Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah. Multicultural education projects support culturally responsive pedagogy through teacher professional development.
This Division of the National Endowment for the Arts funds state folk arts programs, folk artists, and folk arts projects around the country. It also administers the annual National Heritage Awards honoring the nation's folk arts masters.
A nonpartisan citizens' effort building on American democratic traditions to help prepare youth for the challenge of national citizenship in a global age. Provides services to schools, school districts, educational agencies and to all concerned with global perspectives education in the elementary and secondary schools and in the community. Publishes Intercom, a triennial journal for educators that contains articles, information, and teaching suggestions.
Indian Education Technical Assistance Centers Office of Indian Education U.S. Department of Education 400 Maryland Avenue, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20202-6335
A non-profit organization that provides training and development in multicultural and international environments. Designed to foster an awareness of cultural differences.
A professional organization dedicated to the improvement of education at all levels through the use and integration of technology.
With 38,000 parents and family members in more than 180 chapters nationwide, Jack and Jill provides educational, cultural, civic and social programs for minority youth. It awards grants to educational and community projects.
Only national non-profit computerized clearinghouse devoted to children's audio, video radio, and television programming. The KIDSNET clearinghouse is available by subscription through any computer with a modem.
Links, Inc. was founded in 1946 and now has 8,000 members in more than 240 chapters. The group promotes educational, civic and cultural activities to enrich community life. The Links Arts Program sponsors recitals by young musicians and composers, assemblies and promotes exhibitions of Afro-American art, provides grants and scholarships to artists and supports minority theatrical companies.
An educational organization established i 1973, it is dedicated to advancing the education of Hispanics and disadvantaged youth. LNESC works with business and government to initiate national and local educational programs. Through a network of 15 community counseling centers, LNESC operates these programs: Young Readers, Middle School Intervention Initiative, Talent Search Council, Hispanic Leadership Opportunity Program, Washington Youth Seminar and LULAC National Scholarship Fund.
Organization of professions with an interest in multicultural education from all academic disciplines and from diverse educational institutions and occupations. Goals are to establish a clearinghouse for multicultural educational resource materials, establish standards and policy statements for educational institutions and organizations; facilitate initiatives to encourage diverse individuals to enter professions.
Conducts research on improving education for language minority students. Enhances communication and networking among researchers, educators, administrators, parents, students and policy makers.
Founded in 1990 to support the creation of schools that are: Learner-centered Knowledge-based Responsive and responsible. Builds knowledge about the intense and difficult efforts undertaken in transforming schools in order to help others in their attempts at change, to begin to build future education programs for school practitioners, and to promote environmental and policy changes to encourage needed structural reforms.
Established in 1968, NCLR is a national nonpartisan organization founded to reduce poverty and discrimination in the United States and to improve opportunities for Hispanics. It focuses on education, leadership, health, housing, community development, employment and training. With field offices in Los Angeles, Phoenix, Chicago, and San Antonio, it is the largest national constituency-based Hispanic organization and includes nearly 200 affiliates in 37 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. NCLR¹s broader network involves more than 20,000 groups and individuals nationwide.
Supports elementary and secondary education through scholarship, research, education and public programs in the humanities. In the Act that established the endowment, the term humanities includes, but is not limited to, the study of the following disciplines: history; philosophy; languages, linguistics; literature; archaeology; jurisprudence; the history, theory, and criticism of the arts; ethics; comparative religion; and those aspects of the social sciences that employ historical or philosophical approaches.
Chartered in 1969 by the National Education Association (NEA), the National Foundation for the Improvement of Education (NFIE) provides professional development, leadership opportunities, and technical and financial assistance to educators who strive to meet the challenges of preparing students for our rapidly changing world. Through nationally recognized programs, publications, and videos, NFIE fosters creative, dynamic initiatives that are shaping and influencing the direction of public education in the United States.
A private, non-profit, educational research and development firm. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education to serve as the educational laboratory for the Mid-Atlantic region since 1966. Currently initiates and supports efforts to improve and restructure schools in urban districts.
S.E.E.D. is an annual project now in its twelfth year conducted in three locations: California, Minnesota, and New Jersey. Each summer, each SEED Leaders' Workshop puts 30 - 40 teachers and their stories at the center of a faculty-centered, faculty-development process which flows from five key ideas as they have been articulated by SEED co-directors, Peggy McIntosh and Emily Style: Unless we as teachers reopen our own backgrounds to look anew at how we were schooled to deal with diversity and connection, we will be unable to create school climates and curricula which more adequately help students to deal with diversity and connection. Intellectual and personal faculty development, supported over time, is needed if today's schools are to enable students and teachers to develop a balance of self-esteem and respect for the cultural realities of others. Group discussion of interlocking systems of overadvantage and oppression, and of the research on "separated knowing" and "connected knowing," can support teachers and administrators in shaping the school curriculum to become more gender fair and multiculturally equitable. Without systemic understanding of gender, race, and class relations, educators who try to transform the curriculum will lack creative flexibility and coherence when dealing with the scholarship of the last twenty-five years in specific disciplines and across disciplines. During the course of the next academic year, trained SEED leaders, in turn, put their local colleagues' lifetexts as well as contemporary multicultural scholarship at the center of year-long, monthly seminar meetings which they conduct in their own schools/workplaces.
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