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Multicultural and Minority Resources on the Internet

The following listings provide a brief sampling of the many sites on the World Wide Web that relate to multicultural education and diversity. The Internet also provides numerous sites related to aspects of minority achievement.

Afro-American Newspaper

http://www.afro.com

A website sponsored by the Afro-American Newspaper that features information about African American culture and current events.

Children's Literature

http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/ChildrenLit/index.html

Lists young children's picture books with positive images of people from a range of ethnic groups, Also lists positive gender-fair books

Cornucopia of Disability information

http://codi.buffalo.edu

Lists range of resources related to services and organizations

Equity Online/Women's Educational
Equity Act

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/gems/eeo/law/usa/l_ea.htm

Resources and information about the
Women's Educational Equity Act (WEE4)
Resource Center providing gender-fair
multicultural materials, training, and
discussion lists

European History and Culture

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu

Extensive Collection of information on
American/European history and culture

GIRLTECH

http://www.girltech.com

Interactive activities related to girls in technology

Global School Net Foundation (GSN)

http://www.gsn.org

Organizes a monthly calendar of on-line projects related to enhancing global understanding

A Guide to Children's Literature and Disability

http://www.kidsource.com

Features bibliography of books written about or including characters with a wide range of learning and physical disabilities

Hispanic America USA

http://www.neta.com/~1stbooks/content.htm

World and United States history information highlighting HispanicAmerican contributions,
also lists Hispanic-American resources

Hispanic Online: Latino Links

http://www.hispaniconline.com

Lists numerous Hispanic education
resources and organizations

Internet Sites for Students' Intercultural Exchanges, Kidlilnk

http://www.kidlink.org

Penpals listing

Library of Congress

http://www.lcweb.loc.gov

Catalogue of ways to search for specific
content in the Library of Congress
Archives;
includes extensive listings of multicultural topics

Mid-Atlantic Equity Association

http://www.maec.org

Features many resources and publications related multicultural education topics, diversity, and multicultural links. 
 

The Multicultural Pavillion

http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/multicultural

Sponsored and maintained by the University of Virginia; offers a number of resources on multicultural education for the K- 12 teacher, includes a teachers' comer, an on-line discussion board, and links to hundreds of other sites

Pathways to School Improvement/NCREL

http://www.ncrel.org

Addresses school improvement issues; summarizes best practices and research related to specific topics such as multicultural education; search under
'Creative High-Achieving Learning Environments'

National Association of Ethnic Studies

http://faculty.washington.edu/davidgs/naesresources.html

Provides links to many multicultural and research websites.

National Clearinghouse on Bilingual Education

http://www.ncela.gwu.edu

Information on bilingual education resources, policies, and research

National Immigration Forum

http://www.immigrationforum.org

Resources related to immigration to the U.S.

National Women's History Project

http://www.nwhp.org

Comprehensive information about a wide range of women's history topics and resources

Native Web

www.nativeweb.org

Includes many Native American sites on the Web and an index to other sites, especially those dealing with Native American arts, museums, and music

Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs (OBEMLA)

http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oela/index.html

U.S. Department of Education resources for culturally and linguistically diverse learners

Public Broadcasting Specials

http://www.pbs.org

Information about many multicultural documentaries aired on PBS

Rethinking Schools

http://www.rethinkingschools.org

includes selected articles from the current issue of Rethinking Schools Newspaper and recent back issues; also has a complete index of all Rethinking
Schools articles

Social Studies School Service

http://socialstudies.com

http://catalog.socialstudies.com/c/@q-eP2xN0_N8aw/Pages/online.html


Classroom activities related to multicultural topics mdth annotated lists of other sites on issues such as Holocaust studies

Clearinghouse on Urban Education

http://www.eric.ed.gov

UEweb offers manuals, brief articles, annotated bibliographies, reviews and summaries of outstanding publications, and conference announcements in urban education. 
Many items in UEweb are published by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education and are available for free or a nominal charge, as described in its publication list.


Southern Poverty Law Center

http://www.splcenter.org

Information from the Southern Poverty
Law center about Teaching Tolerance"
educational activities and monitoring of
hate/ violence incidents and groups

Teachers of English to Speakers of the Languages(TESOL)

http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/index.asp

Organization of teachers working with
diverse English language learners

Urban Education

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/ToolsforSchools/usd.html

Features information related to urban education reform.

UNICEF Cyberspace Bus

http://www.un.org/pubs/cyberschoolbus

UNICEF's interactive Web site for
teachers and students to promote global
understanding

University of Maryland Diversity Database

http://www.umd.edu/diversity

EdRes/Topic Diversity
References on resource materials related
to a wide range of diversity issues

U.S. Department of Education

http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml?src=a

Features publications related to various
programs and practices that promote
success for students.


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