- Children of Immigration
- Carola Suárez-Orozco
- Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco
- In the midst of the largest immigration wave in history, America is once again contemplating a future in which new arrivals will play a crucial role in reworking the fabric of the nation. This book, written by the codirectors of the largest ongoing longitudinal study of immigrant children and their families, offers a clear, broad, interdisciplinary view of who the immigrant children are and what their future might hold.
- Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002
- The Culture of Education
- Jerome Bruner
- In a masterly commentary on the possibilities of education, eminent psychologist Jerome Bruner reveals how education can usher children into their culture, though it often fails to do so. Going well beyond his earlier acclaimed books on education, Bruner looks past the issue of achieving individual competence to the question of how education equips individuals to participate in the culture on which life and livelihood depend.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1997
- The Girl with the Brown Crayon
- Vivian Gussin Paley
- As she enters her final year of teaching, Vivian Paley tells in this book a story of her own farewell, as well as a story of the self-discovery of Reeny, a little girl with a fondness for the color brown. Led by Reeny, Paley and the children develop a passion for the books of Italian author Leo Lionni, and reinvent their classroom around discussions of these stories. Through Frederick the mouse and Lionni's other characters they explore themes of race, identity, gender, and the essential human needs to create and to belong.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998
- Increasing Faculty Diversity
- Stephen Cole
- Elinor Barber
- In recent years, colleges have successfully increased the racial diversity of their student bodies. They have been less successful, however, in diversifying their faculties. This book identifies the ways in which minority students make occupational choices, what their attitudes are toward a career in academia, and why so few become college professors.
- Hardcover 2003
- Kwanzaa and Me
- Vivian Gussin Paley
- In her latest book, Vivian Paley sets out to discover the truth about the multicultural classroom from those who participate in it. Here are the voices of black teachers and minority parents, immigrant families, a Native American educator, and the children themselves, whose stories mingle with the author's to create a candid picture of the successes and failures of the integrated classroom.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1996
- The Latino Education Crisis
- Patricia Gándara
- Frances Contreras
- Drawing on both extensive demographic data and compelling case studies, this book reveals the depths of the educational crisis looming for Latino students, the nation’s largest and most rapidly growing minority group.
- Hardcover 2009
- Seeking Common Ground
- David Tyack
- Seeking common civic ground in public schools has never been easy in a society where schoolchildren followed different religions, adhered to different cultural traditions, spoke many languages, and were identified as members of different "races." In this wise and enlightening book, filled with vivid characters and memorable incidents that make history but don't always make history books, David Tyack describes how each American generation grappled with the knotty task of creating political unity and social diversity.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2007
- We Are All Multiculturalists Now
- Nathan Glazer
- Where not very long ago Americans sought assimilation, they now pursue multiculturalism. Nowhere has this transformation been more evident than in the public schools. In a book that brings clarity and reason to this highly charged issue, Nathan Glazer explores these changes and offers an incisive account of why we all have become multiculturalists.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998