Equity and Diversity Links
Sponsored by The Department of Teacher
Education & Professional Development at
Central Michigan University
Sponsored by The Department of Teacher
Education & Professional Development at
Central Michigan University
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Equity and Diversity Links
Sponsored by The Department of Teacher Education & Professional Development at Central Michigan University |
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Multicultural Education
An educational philosophy and curriculum that looks beyond curricula from the white Western European tradition. Some multicultural education models highlight subjects from diverse cultural, ethnic, racial, and gender perspectives. Others represent an immersion in one culture, ethnicity, or race. |
| Thinking of Each and Every One: Framing the Context: In her own years as a teacher, this national advocate for educational equity learned to consider the needs of each child in her classroom. |
 Multicultural Pavilion: Resources and Dialogues for Educators, Students, and Activists: This site includes many activities, links to progressive educational organizations, discussion forums, litservs, and much more. A "must visit" Site! |
| NSF Program for Women and Girls: A Lifetime of Science, Engineering, and Mathematics: To promote gender equity in science, engineering and mathematics, the National Science Foundation's Programs for Women and Girls (PWG) Division has supported over 100 curricular innovations, professional development efforts, and informal learning opportunities for women and girls. |
| Inclusion in Science Education for Students with Disabilities: The site explains instructional strategies for teaching science to students with disabilities. |
| Teaching Mathematics to Visually Impaired Students: A super site with scores of practical ideas to help a visually impaired student learn mathematics. A bonus, most of the strategies can work with any subject. |
| Urban MAST: Changing demographics of urban areas in the United States have resulted in calls for MAthematics, Science and Technology education reform. The Teacher Education Alliance (TEA), a consortium among Broward County Public Schools, Broward Community College, and Florida Atlantic University, is an alternative approach to teacher preparation. TEA challenges new teachers to be technologically competent, sensitive to diversity issues, knowledgeable, and able to use a variety of teaching strategies to reach all students. The purposes of the Urban MAST home page are to increase awareness of contributions of women and minorities in MAth, Science and Technology and to promote interaction among business professionals and urban education centers. |
| Center for National Origin, Race and Sex Equity: CNORSE, a federally funded educational equity project at the Northwest Regional Education Laboratory, has many resources including equity-related publications, their own newsletter on-line, and several equity-related web site links. |
| Urban Education: NWREL assists Northwest communities in responding effectively to urbanization by facilitating networking among community and educational leaders, supporting collaborative planning among diverse school and community groups and identifying approaches to meet the educational needs of the Northwest's increasingly diverse learners. Northwest Highways links you to NWREL training and technical assistance centers and to urban education web sites across the nation. |
| Teaching Tolerance: Teaching tolerance is a national education project dedicated to helping teachers foster equity, respect, and understanding in the classroom and beyond. |
| Mobilization for Equity: A program of the National Coalition of Advocates for Students (NCAS), aims in part to collaborate with educators and policy makers to realize changes in school policies and practices needed to ensure equal educational access to public schools for all students. Browse the Mobilization for Equity Newsletters for analyses of specific issues, strategies, and resources on equity, standards, and school reform. |
| ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education: Home page of the ERIC Clearinghouse. Describes services and publications available from the Clearinghouse on Urban Education. |
| What Kids can Do: What Kids Can Do is a national nonprofit organization founded in the winter of 2001. We document the value of young people working with teachers and other adults on projects that combine powerful learning with public purpose for an audience of educators and policy makers, journalists, community members, and students. |
| The Nationall Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities: This site provides lots of information about educating children and young people with a variety of disabilities. |
| The Institute for Urban and Minority Education: The Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME) conducts research to better understand the experiences of diverse urban and minority group populations in the different institutions and situations which influence their development. IUME provides the knowledge necessary for establishing government policies and designing educational programs to support the development of these ethnically and linguistically diverse groups. |
| KidLink: This is a garssroots project, that has grown very large, aimed at getting as many children in the age group 10-15 as possible involved in a GLOBAL dialog. Text only as well as color text and graphics are available. |
| Native Web: The purpose of this site is to provide a cyber-place for Earth's indigenous peoples, and includes documents and links mainly about the Americas, with most information from Canada, Mexico and the United States. |
| Tolerance.org: Fight hate and promote tolerance, a web project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. The site includes a large section of resources to teach tolerance to children. Click on "For Teachers" for the activities. |
| Planet Tolerance: The children's site for Tolerance.org. |
| Teaching tolerance to Middle School Social Studies Students: In a rich and diverse country as America, one of her greatest assets which has seen her through tough times, has been her cultural diversity. Like the human fingers, with each finger having its own uniqueness, but which when all used together give the hand a formidable strength, so also have Americans come from all walks of life, with their own uniqueness. In our increasing independent world, gaining an appreciation for other countries and cultures is important for everyone, especially young people. |
| Lessons in Tolerance: The Tolerance Project, a collaborative web resource for learning and teaching how to understand, create, nurture, and find tolerance. |
| Ten Ways to Fight Hate: Individual PDF documents for each of the 10 ways to fight hate and a full PDF document download of the publication, 10 Ways to Fight Hate. |
| DiversityWeb Recommended Resources: Links to DiversityWeb's compendium of promising practices, programs, and resources. |
| Equity Online: Gender Equity works for all improving education for girls and women, supporting equitable outcomes for all students. |
| 4000 Years of Women in Science: This site include biographies, references, photographs, and facts concerning contributions of women in scientific fields. |
| Equity Assistance Centers: The ten Equity Assistance Centers are funded by the U.S. Department of Education under Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. They provide assistance in the areas of Race, Gender, and National Origin equity to public schools to promote equal educational opportunities. |
| Education Week on the Web -- Gender Equity |
| Education Week on the Web -- Bilingual Education |
| Education Week on the Web -- Inclusion |
| Education Week on the Web -- Desegregation |
| Education Week on the Web -- Digital Divide |
| Eisenhower National Clearninghouse Vignettes: The vignettes included here are brief scenarios that illustrate particular equity issues or dilemmas for discussion purposes. Each one presents a single perspective on an event, and the details that are included or omitted reflect that perspective. The vignettes are not limited to classroom situations, but also reflect the concerns of administrators. With over 90 vignetess to select from, here is an example of one: You are a guest speaker at a retreat that has brought together educational policy makers and equity advocates. The equity advocates are discussing the importance of equity in mathematics and science! But the discussion is getting quite heated. Race, gender, and disability advocates are all pushing for their issues to be addressed, and a bit of competition is going on as to which group is MOST underserved. It's becoming quite overwhelming, and some of the policy makers are beginning to look very nervous. You are next on the agenda. What can you do? |
| The National Coalition for Equity in Education: To ensure that schools and colleges provide complete respect to people, provide the necessary resources (material and human) for all people to learn at the highest level, and are active in combatting inequity. |
| Explore and Learn: Themes and Cultures: Explore in-depth themes and cultures through art work featured on select Met galleries, past exhibitions, and a variety of other topics. |
| Virtual Ancient Civilizations: A site compiled by Urbana Middle School, VAC offers in-depth resrouces to study ancient cultures through there artifacts like the Incas, Egypt, Greece, China and more. There are also links to other good sites. |
| Literature Dealing with Hate - The bibliography lists resources that can be used with lessons that prompt students to ask the question, "What is hate speech?" Compiled alphabetically by author, this list contains sources that are appropriate for professional reading and classroom discussion. |
| Literature - The list of books is arranged alphabetically by author. All sources are appropriate for professional reading and classroom discussion and present issues of tolerance. |
| Project Based Learning - This list came from a publication called Resiliency In Action. It is part of larger article written by Dr. Kretzman and Paul H. Schmitz. The title of article is It Takes a Child to Raise a Whole Village. (The article originally appeared in the 1994-95 issue of Wingspread, a newsletter of The Johnson Foundation.) This list of suggestions fits into this Web site's goal which is to promote not only the use of literature to teach tolerance but to also create action based programs that connect with the ideas in the literature. |
| Meaningful Life - The bibliography lists resources that can be used with lessons that prompt students to pose the question, "What is a meaningful life?" The literature listed deals with individuals whose lives have been meaningful to themselves and others, and could be used as a starting point for teachers and students to construct their own definition of a meaningful life. |
| Diversity Research Laboratory's Useful Links - A great collections of links dealing with diversity, immigration, ethnic isssues, prejudice, discrimination and more. |
| Media Awareness Network - Portrayal of Diversity: Talking to Your Kids - Good resource designed for parents but very valuable for teachers also. |
| Aboriginal Connections - An Indigenous Peoples Web Directory - A comprehensive web directory presenting categorized information to Canadian Aboriginal, Native American Indian and International Indigenous sites on the world wide web. |
| Aboriginal Links International - A directory of Aboriginal links around the world. |
| Alaska Native Heritage Center - The Alaska Native Heritage Center is a gathering place that celebrates, perpetuates and shares Alaska Native culture, language, heritage and tradition. |
| Center For World Indigenous Studies - An independent, non-profit organization; studies and promotes the ideas and knowledge of indigenous peoples and their social, economic and political status. Fourth World Documentation Project online library; information on CWIS sponsored educational programs. |
| The Cultural Conservancy - The Cultural Conservancy works to preserve traditional cultures of indigenous peoples, empowering the application of their traditional beliefs and practices on their ancestral lands. |
| Dictionaries and Grammars of Indigenous Languages of Mexico - Organized by language family, in alphabetical order, this list includes other related books published by the Summer Institute of Linguistics or the Instituto Lingüístico de Verano (Mexico). English/Spanish. |
| GeoNative: native peoples and placenames - Place names of minority languages, native peoples and nations without state, which usually never appear in maps. |
| In the Long Run: The Tarahumara Indians of Mexico - Documentary about the Tarahumara of Mexico in real audio format. |
| NativeWeb - an Internet Community - Resources for Indigenous Cultures Around the World. |
| The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Indigenous Studies - Indigenous Studies WWW Virtual Library - Comprehensive list of Indigenous and Fourth World resources on the Internet |
| Zulu Culture and Traditions - A brief overview of the South African Zulu, including information about their history, food, dancing, crafts, family, religion, clothes, and combat. Excerpted from the book titled Zulu: People of Heaven (1996) by Uli von Kapff. |
| Australian Aboriginals - Hundreds of links to sites covering everything from Aboriginal art to indigenous peoples rights in Australia. |
| Australia - Links to over 24,000 sites about Australia and their culture. Want to know something about Australia and its people--this is the place to begin. |
| Hawaiian Photography and Historical Calendar - Cultural information about the Hawaiian Islands. An ethnic portrait and historical calendar of Polynesia. |
| Aloha For All - This web site presents the view that Aloha is for everybody, not just Hawaiians. Its mission is to spread the word that all citizens of Hawaii, whatever their ancestry, are entitled to the equal protection of the laws. |
| Hawaiian Quilt Research Project - Attempts to trace the development and record the history of Hawaiian quiltmaking traditions by interviewing quiltmakers and owners and documenting quilts and quilt patterns before 1959. |
| Kauluwehi - Uncle Charlie, Hawaiian Storyteller. |
| Kualono - Service to the Hawaiian language speaking communities worldwide. |
| Na Hawai'i - Hawaiian Cultural Awareness Education - An organization dedicated to the preservation and perpetuation of the Hawaiian culture, music, language, arts, and people, for those in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area |
| Search Hawaii - A directory and search engine of web pages about Hawaii and things Hawaiian. |
| A Virtual taro patch on Kaua`i - Hawaiian and local environmental groups network on island issues. |
| Arctic Cyber Anthropology - Research project "Inuit in Cyberspace" by Neil Blair Christensen, Dept. of Eskimology, University of Copenhagen. It has a substantial amount of annotated and categorized links (400+) for the circumpolar Arctic. |
| The Arctic String Figure Project - A collection of well-illustrated detailed instructions on how to make string figures, based on original descriptions of traditional figures collected by researchers in the Arctic. Of particular interest is a series of 100 figures collected by Diamond Jenness, in 1924. |
| Avataq Cultural Institute - Non-profit organisation created by the Inuit of Nunavik (Labrador peninsula) to protect and promote their traditional culture. The programmes include archaeology, oral history, place names, genealogy, etc. The site also present a sample of the Inuit art collection that was donated to the Institute by the Department of Indian Affairs and the North, Canada. |
| Cape Dorset Inuit Art and Inuit Cultural Perspectives - Links the graphic work of some of the famous artists from the community of Cape Dorset with the memories, myths and legends of elders from the community of Igloolik. |
| Inuit Tapirisat of Canada - Information about ITC's role in political, cultural and economic development of the Inuit of Canada. In-depth description of their history, culture, territory. Includes maps and visuals. |
| North - Landscape of the Imagination - A history of the Canadian North and its influences on the Arts of its residents and outsiders, from the pre-contact period up to the modern era. Compiled by the National Library of Canada, with extensive lists for suggested reading. |
| Native American Online - A non-profit organization serving the Native Americna community with message boards, chat channel, downloadable files, legal and political news, events and more. Features also include Native Links and a search page. |
| Setting the Record Straight - Site debunking various Internet myths about American Indians, from incorrect assumptions about Indian languages through theories about alien landings. |
| Virtual Circle - Intertribal community information and insights. Elders teachings, First Peoples Chronicle articles and archive, discussion forum, aboriginal links index. |
| Windreamer's Links - Portal to native actors, musicians, and models, with some other entertainment links. |
| Indigenous World - Native American news, history, issues, language, ceremony, arts, music, genealogy, nations index. Chat room, links. From TV 200. |
| Edward S. Curtis's North American Indian - A complete collection of images contained in Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian, a significant and controversial representations of traditional American Indian culture; from an exhibition by the Library of Congress. |
| First People's Language Resources - Extensive list of sites regarding teaching, study and preservation of indigenous North American tongues. |
| Native American Fonts - Index of links to fonts for various Amerindian languages, both those that use modified English alphabet and those with different writing systems. |
| Native American Languages - Links and an essay with some generic information on American Indian languages. |
| Teaching Indigenous Languages - Articles on teaching, revitalizing, and stabilizing indigenous languages, indigenous language policy, dropout prevention and teacher training. |
| Native American Fine Art (NAFA) - Founded to promote respected and accomplished Hopi artists in the making of authentic kachinas and pottery, which are available to both the art enthusiast and experienced collectors alike. |
| Cherokee Lore - Various traditional tales. |
| Native American Lore Index - Over 130 stories from tribes across North and South America. Link to quotations from native leaders. |
| Zicahota Tales and Legends - Extensive list of Native American stories from a variety of nations. Additional prayers, prophecies, fact sheets and links. |
| Great Chiefs and Leaders - Browseable database featuring profiles of prominent modern and historical figures. Some with black and white photos and images, and links. |
| Native American Authors - Index by tribe. From the Internet Public Library. |
| Indigenous Peoples of Guyana - This an introductory overiew and photo essay on Guyana's Amerindians, including summaries of their current situation, challenges and prospects. |
| Ethnologue Country Index - The resource to find information about any language spoken in the world. |
| Author Bino A. Realuyo - Filipino poet and author of "The Umbrella Country." Site includes Realuyo's poetry, and other literary works. A difficult site to navigate through. |
| Natives' Wish - A Pinoy-centric web magazine. Features introspective essays and other interesting creative experiments. |
| Pacific and Asian History - Scholarly resources on societies in both Asia and the Pacific, utilizing a wide variety of written and oral sources. Provided by the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies of the Australian National University. |
| PolynesiaGenWeb - PolynesiaGenWeb provides genealogy information and resources for Polynesia. |
| Yanomamo Indians - This site contains links and references for the Yanomamo Indians of Brazil and Venezuela. |
| The Shuar and the Saraguros - A brief description of the Shuar people whose territory the Saraguros began to enter about 100 years ago. |
| The Indians Guaraní - Information on the Guaraní of eastern Paraguay. Includes photos. |
| CONFENIAE - The Confederation of the Nationalities Indigenous to the Amazon of Ecuador (CONFENIAE) is an organization dedicated to the defence and legalization of indigenous territories and the protection of their natural resources, promoting social, political, and economic development and saving the cultural identity of each member nation from extinction. |
| Perspectives on Race Relations in the U.S. - Race has played a pivotal role in the history of the United States, and in our nation's struggle to realize the full promise of our society. While not covering the entire story, this site provides a place to begin a meaningful exploration. It should assist the understanding of race in the United States and suggest ways in which the American experience can have relevance for other nations and peoples. |
| Black Indians & InterTribal Native Americans - An online store offering items concerning African and Native American collective history. |
| Ethnicity - Over 6,000 links to sites addressing different ethnicities. A great place to start to find information on Acadian to Welsh. |
| Palestine - All what you need to know about the current history of Palestine. |
| Elementary Spanish Curriculum - prepares students to compete and cooperate in the international arena; to promote multi-cultural understanding; and to build intellectual achievement. |
| Native-American Texts From the Modern English Collection - from the Electronic Text Center at UVA. |
| A Slave's Story - from Putnam's Monthly Magazine, 1857. |
| Allen Parker Slave Narrative - annotated slave narrative by Allen Parker of Chowan County, NC. Includes maps, images, documents, and timelines. |
| American Slave Narratives |
| American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography - subscription-based collection of WPA slave narratives. |
| Ancestry.com: Black History Month - search an exhaustive listing of slave narratives or browse by topic. |
| Born in Slavery - contains thousands of first-person accounts of slavery and black-and-white photographs of former slaves. |
| Confessions of Nat Turner(1800-1831) |
| Equiano, Olaudah (c.1745-1797) - also called Gustavus Vassa, the African. |
| Excerpts from Slave Narratives |
| Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl |
| My Escape From Slavery - by Frederick Douglass. |
| Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass |
| Testimony of the Canadian Fugitives - interviews with former slaves who escaped to Canada. |
| Third Person, First Person: Slave Voices - online exhibit from the Special Collections Library at Duke. |
| Being Human - short story with a gay theme. |
| Y? The National Forum on People's Differences The goal of this memorable web site is simple but profound; to get people talking. Racism, stereotyping and other difference-based problems can be the result of misinformation or ignorance. This forum offers visitors the unique opportunity to confront their feelings head-on by asking difficult or embarrassing questions of people from different cultural or ethnic backgrounds. Past topics include subtle racism, sexual orientation and ageism, and the interactions are edited to make them clear and suitable for general audiences. "Dare to ask. Dare to answer." |