This web page was built by the the Internet Group of Multicultural Education, Education 419.  Additional resources for this page were provided by  Dr. Jean Moule.

TABLE of CONTENTS: click on link to advance directly to that topic.

1. Links to sites on how to use of the internet.
2. Teacher Resources.
3. History and Social Science.
4. Gender Issues.
5. Exceptionality.
6. Religion in Public School.
7. Educational Reform.
8. General Multicultural Issues.

• Multicultural Pavilion
• http://curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU/go/multicultural  This site is a great informational resource for teachers. It consists of resources for teachers, multicultural activities, multicultural research resources, awareness activities, and links to hundreds of other Internet sites and resources.
• French Culture
• http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/bnf/bnf0001.html  Explore the history of France from the late 8th century to the present at this site. Learn about monarchs and monasteries, the path to royal absolutism, the rise and fall of the absolute monarchy, and the change from empire to democracy.

[Background Information]
• Exploring Ancient World Cultures

http://eawc.evansville.edu/index.htm  Explore the ancient cultures of The Near East, India, Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, Early Islam, and Medieval Europe. Over time it will include chapter-length histories for each of the eight cultures listed above.
[Background Information]
• PBS Online

http://www.pbs.org/  This site contains the teacher connex which ahs lesson plan ideas in social studies, the arts, science, and math. It even has a section for Preschool. PBS also has a section for kids. They can play games, do activities, and "babble on" if they have something to say.
• Criteria for Evaluating Multicultural Children's Literature

http://members.aol.com/mcsing29/bookcrit.htm  Set of 17 recommended criteria one can follow when evaluating children's literature for multicultural content.
[Teacher Resource]
• Diversity 1

http://www.isomedia.com/homes/jmele/homepage.html  Book review for multicultural books. This site crates a qualitative list of multicultural literature for K-12 educators. It also provides information about multicultural literature that other educators have used successfully. The books are listed my subject matter. It even reviews textbooks.
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• Resolving Conflict Creatively

http://www.esrnational.org/  Has links to Resources, Kid's Conscious acts of Peace, Kids Keeping the Peace, and Peaceable Classrooms.
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General History, Human Rights, and Tolerance Sites

• Study Web

http://www.studyweb.com/
This is an excellent site for lessons and information on history, human rights, discrimination, prejudice, and tolerance from around the world. It is relevant to all age groups from kindergarten to high school. It contains numerous resources.
• Anti-bias Teacher Education Project

http://www.tulane.edu/~so-inst/toleranc.html
Teaching guides for many books related to discrimination and civil rights including Teaching Schindler, A House Divided (Civil War), Eyes on the Prize (civil rights), and When the Future was the Past (Plessy v. Ferguson).
• Human Rights Web

http://www.hrweb.org/
An excellent site for information and lessons on human rights around the world.

• Remembering Education

http://remember.org/educate/index.html
A source for lesson plans, resources, and more. The focus of the site changes but it currently features Holocaust education for all ages.
• Online Education

http://remember.org/educate.htm
Links to numerous Holocaust sites for all age groups.
• Anne Frank Online

http://www.annefrank.com/
This site contains numerous links to related sites as well as educational resources and information on her life. The definitive site for information on Anne Frank.
• A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust

http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/activity/activity.htm
Excellent source for many lesson plans related to the Holocaust. For all ages.

• Native Americans
• http://www.ed.uri.edu/smart/homepage/indians.htm

This site contains many links which provide information about the many Native American tribes living in the United States.
• The Heard Museum
• http://hanksville.phast.umass.edu/defs/independent/Heard/Heard.html

The home page for a museum focusing on teaching appreciation and respect for Native people and their cultural heritage.
• National Civil Rights Museum
• http://www.mecca.org/~crights/

Information about current events and historical events centering on civil rights.
• For Teachers - History
• http://www.unhcr.ch/teach/tchhist/tchhist.htm

This site offers lessons on refugees for ages 9-18.
• Ellis Island - Through America's Gateway

http://www.cport.k12ky.us/ffhs/Curriculum/History/ELLIS/index.htm
A fascinating tour of the arrival point for millions of new Americans. This site contains many related resources.

• Key Issues for Women and Mathematics--Grades K-12 http://forum.swarthmore.edu/social/math.women.html This site addresses issues pertaining to women and math as well as other helpful links on related topics.
• Women-Related Email Lists About Education--Grades K-12 http://research.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/f_educ.html There are many email sources for information about women in education and educators.
• Web Sites Addressing Gender Equity--Grades K-12 http://www.lalc.k12.ca.us/essay/5%5f1/gendereqresourcelist.html A great source for web sites that specifically address gender equity. There are four different centers listed that focus on gender issues.
• Gender Equity Centers--Grades K-12 http://www.genderequity.org/ This site offers resources, events, and information about males and females. One site that is linked from this site offers a document "Honoring Black Women," which offers many differnent women and their background information.
• Background and Importance of the Gender Equity Expert Panel--Grades K-12 http://www.edc.org/womensequity/pubs/expanel/papers.html Research papers about achieving gender equity in education.

• http://www.isomedia.com/homes/jmele/homepage.html Literature reviews broken up into nine different categories, for example, "African American Literature."

• Jilliene's Helpful Sites for Educators and Parents of Children With Disablities http://users.aol.com/jylbear/index.html A web site created by a teacher of students with multiple handicapps. The site contains links for information on various disabilities and then other resources for teachers.

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• The SPECIAL Edges .http://www.blue.net/~goose/

This site was created by a special educator for others to use as a resource. This includes links to special needs descriptions, teacher materials, legal issues, and more.
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• Teacher Education Division, Council for Exceptional Children
• The Book on Inclusive Education
• http://www.quasar.ualberta.ca/ddc/incl/resource.htm

This is a book on the internet for teachers. The topic is inclusive education and includes: case notes, curriculum suggestions, and more. This site really does a good job of presenting material from a classroom perspective.
• Barnes and Noble.com
• http://barnesandnoble.com

Once you get on to this site, search for "exceptionality". The Barnes and Nobel search engine will look for books with your key word and/or simular topic areas. Also available are prices and ordering abilities.
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• The Beach Center on Families and Disablities
• http://www.lsi.ukans.edu/BEACH

This is a very educational web site, it talks about familiy issues. The site brings to light issues such as what it might be like to have a child with special needs, IDEA, behaviors, social service providers, policy makers, information on specific disabilities, information on research being done, Beach Center news letters, behavioral support, support organizations, and related links.
• Marc Sheehan's Special Education Page

http://www.haleyon.com/marcs/sped.html
This is a web page designed to act as an internet resource that links you to all kinds of special education web sites. This site also includes lesson plans.
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• What about Atheist's?

http://www.infidels.org/org/ffrf
A resource that can be used to help understand an Atheist's point of view and how to explain this belief to others and children.

There is a incredible range of ideas that appear under the guise of educational reform, from the market-oriented models of some Charter Schools, to those that are familiar to us from multicultural education. There are also many sites devoted to specific issues such as the role of technology in the reform movement. I will focus this survey on reform from a multicultural perspective, but you need to be aware that most of the sites you find under educational reform are from other perspectives.

• The Accelerated Schools Project of the Stanford University School of Education. http://www.stanford.edu/group/ASP/ Accelerated Schools set a goal of bringing ALL students into the educational mainstream by the end of elementary school so they can perform at levels appropriate to their age group. They use the term "accelerated" because at-risk students must learn at a faster rate than more privileged students- not at a slower rate that drags them farther and farther behind. Only an enrichment strategy, not a remedial one, can offer hope for reversing the present educational crisis of at-risk students.
• New Horizons for Learning. http://www.newhorizons.org/multicultural.html   This is the multicultural education site of  New Horizons for Learning, a virtural community, supporting expanded visions of learning.  A virtural community is connected via the Internet. This site has links many articles focused on multicultural education, several of them involve issues related to school reform.
• Science Education Reform for All http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/Diversity/General/Reference/reform This is a brief outline of a report entitled Science Education Reform for All (SERA): A Look at How State Departments of Education are Infusing Equity and Excellence into PreK-12 Systemic Reform. The report grows out of the SERA Project to develop a technical assistance program for state departments of education or state education agencies. The program would ensure that the benefits of science/mathematics education reform efforts would accrue equally to all students, particularly low-income minority students and inner-city students.
• Multicultural Education Reform Programs. http://spot.colorado.edu/~aises/aises.html Welcome to the American Indian Science and Engineering Society Multicultural Educational Reform Programs. This site provides a framework for learning about science, mathematics, and technology. By addressing each of these components, American Indian and other underrepresented minority students and their teachers can make meaningful cultural connections to teaching and learning.
• Education Reforms and Students at Risk: A Review of the Current State of the Art. January 1994. http://www.ed.gov/pubs/EdReformStudies/EdReforms/index.html The site is a Table of Contents for this on-line publication.  There are 9 chapters, with links to 3 to 5 articles per chapter.
• Rethinking Teacher Unionism. http://www.lol.shareworld.com/zmag/articles/karp1.htm  For seven years, the National Coalition of Education Activists (NCEA) has been putting this idea to the test by attempting to build a multi-racial, grassroots network of parents, teachers and community activists working in many different ways for school change across the country. This is a summary of a a recent NCEA conference on this topic.
• This way to the Multicultural Pavilion, http://curry.edschool.Virginia.edu/go/multicultural/, the home page to a variety of resources, from activities, to famous speech, to muticulturalism and the Internet.  There are links to reforn related topics.
• This is ERICs (Educational Resources Information Center) School Reform home page. http://eric-web.tc.columbia.edu/administration/reform/ Look here for a variety of articles that may be of interest.
• Education Reform and Social Change. Multicultural Voices, Struggles, and Visions, by Walsh, Catherine Walsh., Ed. 1996. http://eric-web.tc.columbia.edu/abstracts/ed403364.html  This is an abstract of an article available through ERIC.  I have included it as an example of what is available on multicultural issues via ERIC.
• Yahoo's Educational Foum. http://www.yahoo.com/Education/Reform/ A Comprehensive Legislative Update on Education (CLUE) - provides daily updates over the Internet concerning state policy issues of concern to K-12 education. There were 12 links to other websites, one of them was the American Indian Science and Engineering Society Multicultural Educational Reform Programs listed above.

Here are a few web sites that pertain to general multicultural issues.  These were located by Cherie Rusk, the Multicultural Librarian, Valley Library

•  http://www.quiknet.com/mbt/mpec/mpec.html  Multicultural Publishing and Education Council (MPEC),  a national networking and support organization for indepedent publishers of multicultural materials.
• http://www.libertynet.org/~balch/balch.html   The Balch Institute, Philadelphia, P.A. gives you a direct line to what's happening with diversity issues in our own nation.
• http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu  Part of the Chicano/Latino Electronic Network (CLEN) and is a joint project of the Chicano Studies Research Institute at the UCSB.
• http://granite.sentex.net/~skeogh/multicul.html  Multicultural reources for adult educators.  Acollection of on-line journal articales and discussion groups.
• http://earth.library.pitt.edu/~lmitten/indians.html  Native American Home Pages.  From librarian Lisa Mitten's web site at the University of Pittsburgh.  An extensive listing of primary sources for tribal communication.
• http://www.ORST.EDU/dept/culture/mcalendar/mulcal.html; Our very own Website's Multicultural Calendar

last updated: 6/3/1998