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A 7 page paper that begins with the most recent demographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the numbers of languages and cultures in our schools. The writer discusses multicultural education and the reasons for it. The writer also argues that multicultural education is not the answer to eliminating racial hatreds and why. The writer briefly reports on the effects of diversity in business. The paper ends with the writer responding to whether or not teaching about culture would eventually eliminate wars. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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7 pages (~225 words per page)
File: MM12_PGethcld.rtf
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persons (2004): 80.4% (U.S. Census Bureau, 2006). * Black persons (2004): 12.8% (U.S. Census Bureau, 2006). * American Indian and Alaska Native persons (2004); 1.0% (U.S. Census Bureau, 2006). *
Asian persons (2004): 4.2% (U.S. Census Bureau, 2006). * Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander persons (2004): 0.2% (U.S. Census Bureau, 2006). * Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin (2004):
14.1% (U.S. Census Bureau, 2006). * Foreign born persons (2000): 11.1% (U.S. Census Bureau, 2006). * Language other than English spoken at home (2000): 17.9% (U.S. Census Bureau, 2006).
School districts have reported more than 400 languages spoken by their limited-English speaking population (Wiley and Wright, 2004). Between 1991 and 2002, the population in the American public education system
increased by 12 percent but the number of primary languages increased by 95 percent (Wiley and Wright, 2004). The number of languages spoken is evidence of the many different cultures
represented in todays schools. Kitsantas and Talleyrand (2005) report there are at least 276 ethnic groups in the United States; this includes 170 Native American groups. Costa and colleagues
(2005) report that 9.6 percent of the public school population are English language learners. The point is that the student population is becoming ever-more diverse, in language and culture, while
an overwhelming majority of teachers are White. Census projections suggest that by 2010, 95 percent of public school "teachers will be Caucasian, middle-class females with limited cross-cultural interaction" (Brown, 2004,
p. 325). At the same time, the student population is becoming more diverse with more and more cultures and nationalities being represented. It makes sense to teach our students about
different ethnicities and cultures since there are so many represented in the country. Realistically, it is impossible to teach students about all the cultures and ethnicities represented in the U.S.
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