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A Tribute to Dr. James A. Banks — The Father of Multicultural Education: In These Troubling Anti-EDI Times

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Multicultural curriculum and instruction enhance racial and ethnic pride, along with relationships among students from different backgrounds. Referencing Parekh (2006), “Multicultural education is an education for freedom that is essential in today’s ethnically polarized and troubled world” (p.7).

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Anti-Racist Teachers: Disrupting Resegregation [Overrepresentation] in Special Education

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culturally relevant and sustaining teaching) and high-quality instruction (i.e., curriculum and instruction, and assessment). conceptually-based, rigorous, and equitable); and (c) create an inclusive classroom setting where all students can experience success, eliminating restrictive and segregated special education placements.

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Making Equity a Priority

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The school ultimately became a satellite campus of the El Camino Community College District in 2006 but has since regained its accreditation and its independence. In 2005 — long before Curry took the helm — the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges revoked the school’s accreditation because of financial instability.

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Lifting As They Climb

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Banks chronicled the history of Black AERA leadership in a March 2016 article, titled “Expanding the Epistemological Terrain: Increasing Equity and Diversity Within the American Educational Research Association,” that appeared in the journal Educational Researcher.