http://idea.gseis.ucla.edu/
The Institute for Democracy, Education and Access from UCLA and has links to the School of Education. It contains wealth of information on diversity and democracy and has an NPR report on Brown v. Board dated March 8, 2004.

http://www.ohiou.edu/education/partners/ide.html
Institute for Democracy in Education from Ohio University. Membership includes a quarterly journal, Democracy in Education, written by teachers for teachers. It features articles that might be of interest to classroom teachers, such as Multicultural Literature for Young Children.

http://www.main.nc.us/diversity
The Center for Diversity Education The goal of this site is to help teachers increase diversity in their school's curriculum. Hands-on materials are available at no charge.

http://crede.berkeley.com
CREDE (Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence) This is a federally funded site with a focus on research programs for students from diverse backgrounds and experiences.

http://www.diversityweb.org
Welcome to Diversity Web A very comprehensive resource for diversity for middle school, secondary, and higher education.

http://www.aacu.org
Association of American colleges and universities This page contains magazines on liberal education.

http://www.alloneheart.com
All One Heart This website highlights the work of a non-profit organization dedicated to diversity education.

http://portal.unesco.org/education
Once you are on the site, click on Cultural and Linguistic diversity in Education. This is a great site for linguistic information worldwide.

http://pbs.org/democracy/kids
This site is a great tool for teachers for numerous subjects.

www.nap.edu.readingroombooks/earlyed/contents.html
National Academy of Sciences This is a report of a workshop entitled Cultural Diversity in Early Education . It goes into the cultural context of learning, cultural diversity at home, what children bring to school, implications of early education and the direction research is taking.

www.newhorizons.org/strategies/multicultural/front_mutlicultural.htm This website provides an extensive collection of articles that deal with diversity and multicultural education. This site also includes a bibliography and related links.

www.lwvnj.org/teachers.html
League of Women Voters of New Jersey Education Fund Project Democratic Links - Especially For Teachers provides a listing and brief description of resources for teaching "Civics".

http://californiatomorrow.org/about
California Tomorrow This website has information regarding current ongoing projects that are being done in diversity in Education. There are also teacher resources and publications that would be useful to us as teachers. This is a non-profit organization that is out of Oakland.

http://www.pbs.org/democracy/kids/educators/index.html
This is a great website for kids as well as teachers. There are activities online for students to do as well as lesson plans for activities for teachers.

http://www.cal.org
This website can help you locate articles about language, diversity, and cultural issues.

http://brj.asu.edu
To locate articles surrounding bilingual issues.

www.Rethinkingschools.org
This is a site based on the publication Rethinking Schools. It has a lot of good articles dealing with democracy and being a voice for change. There are many good links also.

http://www.cde.ca.gov/iasa/diversity.html
California Department of Education It has links and information to special announcements, glossary, demographic information, Thoughts on diversity and resources among others.

http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/
This site has a great teachers resource center for equity and diversity in education. They have a great deal of information that was free and interesting to read, such as: quotes, a multicultural awareness quiz, multicultural song index, and multicultural activities for engaging students. There were also resources that could be bought such as books, magazines, journals and movies.

http://www.globaldiversity.org.uk/indexmain.htm
Global Diversity Foundation Its purpose is to promote agricultural, biological and cultural diversity around the world. It provides a variety of links one can visit.

http://web.blowsearch.com
This website provides articles, studies, events and governance in a developing world. It also provides links for countries and regions around the world.

http://www.reeusda.gov/diversity/factshee.htm
In the article, Diversity and Pluralism, the main emphasis was on the definition, introduction, classification, institutional power and social oppression. According to the article by Kathy Castaina, diversity means groups of people with cultural differences living up to ideals of equality. People may learn to work as a team to overcome oppression and share power.

http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/whatsdem/whatdm6.htm
Article regarding the culture of democracy. Culture means the totality of life. Democracy means a government by the people, of the people and for the people.

http://www.reading.org/positions/be_wary.html
Article pinpoints a major difficulty in overly structured 'teacher proof' reading programs.

http://www.zmag.org
Noam Chomsky discusses the ideas of Dewy and his ideologies of Democracy and education. He tries to explain the main points of interests that Dewy makes regarding the learning's of children in the classroom.

http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/pndivers.html
This article deals with the issues of overcoming the a diverse population within the schools and the community and how some might see it as a problem. Pedro A. Noguera writes about the truth of the happenings in the community and why people believe that diversity is said to be a problem.

http://aad.english.ucsb.edu/
A good overview of what it contained along with many valuable links (e.g. quotas and proportional representation). It focused on not only democracy, but also affirmative action issues.

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/coredocs.html
This looked like a very student-friendly link from the homepage. A student can access many documents that have high value within America's democracy (e.g. The Bill of Rights and Supreme Court Decisions).

http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/archive/freedom/freeedom2.htm
This link discussed how teachers should teach democratic theories. The article included many easy to understand definitions of democracy and how school environments are impacted by democracy.

http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/index.html
Within the Cyberschoolbus site there are a number of activities and projects that teach students about global issues in an interactive style. My literacy students read the peace poems from kids all over the world and were inspired to write their own poems. Even better, this spurred discussion of how to create peace in their own neighborhood!

To Reference This Web Page
Wink, J. Diversity and Democracy
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