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Why Education Must Be Multicultural
The United States is considered the land of immigrants and cultural diversity, and our nation’s ever
changing demographics attests to this. Yearly, our nation and schools become more racially and linguistically
different. In what ways, we must ask, are schools welcoming and providing for students who come from different cultural
backgrounds, especially Black and Hispanic students? The author contends that schools and educators must be
culturally responsive; however, misperceptions hinder their appreciation of and respect for multicultural education
and, thus, the adoption of culturally responsive practices is infrequent and/or met with reservations. Several (by no means all) misperceptions are share accompanied by counterarguments.
Keywords: multicultural education, misperceptions, culturally responsive education, gifted education
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