Change/Education Issues in Perspective Book

	Introduction	3
Section 1	Educational Perspectives	5
	Race/Ethnicity: Introduction	7
	The Canary in the Mine: The Achievement Gap Between Black and White Students	9
	But That's Just Good Teaching! The Case for Culturally Relevant Pedagogy	17
	From a Different Shore: Their History Bursts with Telling	25
	Indian Education: Assumptions, Ideologies, Strategies	37
	Attending to New Voices	47
	Social Class: Introduction	53
	Families and Schools	55
	Can Education Reduce Social Inequity?	67
	The Social Structure and American Education	73
	Asking the Right Question	93
	Why Education Matters: Race, Ethnicity, Poverty and American School-equity Research	99
	Gender: Introduction	111
	Gender Balance: Lessons from Girls in Science and Mathematics	113
	Gender Equity: Still Knocking at the Classroom Door	119
	The AAUW Report: How Schools Shortchange Girls	125
	Inside the World of Boys: Behind the Mask of Masculinity	133
	White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack	143
	Multicultural Education: Introduction	147
	Multicultural Education: Development, Dimensions, and Challenges	149
	What We Can Learn from Multicultural Education Research	159
	A Different Mirror: A Conversation with Ronald Takaki	165
	Multiculturalism: E Pluribus Plures	171
Section 2	Educational Issues	181
	Tracking: Introduction	183
	In Defense of Tracking	185
	How to Make Detracking Work	189
	Detracking for High Student Achievement	195
	Charter Schools/Vouchers: Introduction	199
	A New Choice	201
	California's Charter Schools: Promises vs. Performance	211
	When You Weigh the Evidence...: Voucher Programs in Milwaukee and Cleveland	217
	A Liberal Argument for School Choice	227
	In Defense of Public Education	231
	Bilingual Education: Introduction	237
	Bilingualism in America: A Forgotten Legacy	239
	The Politics of Bilingual Education	251
	The Societal Context of Bilingual Education	259
	Two Languages Are Better Than One	265
	Standards: Introduction	271
	Educational Standards: To Standardize or to Customize Learning?	273
	Thinking About Standards	281
	Standards, Not Standardization: Evoking Quality Student Work	289
	School Violence: Introduction	297
	Educating Children in a Socially Toxic Environment	299
	Finding Safety in Small Numbers	305
	Violence: Slay or Be Slain	309
	Character Education: Introduction	323
	The Return of Character Education	325
	How Not to Teach Values: A Critical Look at Character Education	331
	Connections between Character Education and Multicultural Education	347
	About the Editors	355