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...approximately one-quarter of all pre-college students in the United States will be minority students, according to Martha Montero-Seiburth, faculty chair of the Institute on Multicultural Education. And with the growing number of minority students in the classroom comes one of the most explosive issues in education...
These are just a few of the many questions dealing with multicultural education which have rarely been confronted by educators around the country and which Montero-Seiburth hopes will become a major issue on the national education agenda...
...Institute on Multicultural Education, which debuted this summer as one of the 10 Programs in Professional Education at the Ed School, is Montero-Seiburth's personal presentation of these problems to 71 secondary-school educators...
...Teachers are not aware of the issues, such as prejudice and bilingualism," Montero-Seiburth says. "Multicultural education is not a study of people's cultures, but instead understanding a child in the context of the classroom. Is every child incorporated into the learning process, despite cultural diversity...
According to Montero-Seiburth, the panel of experts, which included Margarita Perez of the Children's Television Network, Professor of Anthropology John Ogbu at the University of California at Berkeley and Professor of Education Geneva Gay of Purdue University, was organized to answer the question, "What facilities augment better education for children...