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Embracing race : why we need race-conscious education policy

With clarity, passion, and creativity, the author offers a new and promising lens for viewing the unsolved issues of race and education. In this book, she provides a comprehensive examination of four major race-conscious educational policies: bilingual education, multicultural curricula, affirmative action, and remedial education. Shar argues that such policies are critical to fostering self-determination and personal autonomy in students who will otherwise be left with a deficient education
Print Book, English, 2002
Teachers College Press, New York, 2002
xvi, 199 pages ; 23 cm
9780807742372, 9780807742389, 0807742376, 0807742384
48754185
Toward self-determination: taking context and identity into account
Bilingual education
Multicultural curricula
Affirmative action
Remedial education