The Importance Of Multicultural Education In Public Schools

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The placement of a new set standard in public schools has always been a challenge to find the perfect standards to help students in their learning development. Public schools have evolved over the years to different teachable standards to help students education. The new current standard that is the new form of learning standards in Common Core. In the California Common Core State Standards package defines the purpose of common core as, “to help ensure that all students are literate and college and career ready no later than the end of high school” (California Common Core State Standards, 2). The new California Common Core State Standard (CCSS) objective is to expand student education to a broader form of learning that will help students for …show more content…

The migration of people have caused a challenges in the education system, therefore pubic school have made an effort to be multicultural to their students needs. In An Introduction to Multicultural Education: From Theory to Practice “Historical Foundations of Multicultural Education in the United States” by Chinaka Samuel Domnwachukwu defines multicultural education, “It is seen as an attempt to create awareness and tolerance between cultures and related world wide” (Domnwachukwu, 84). Multicultural education is an import component of learning, especially in a school with a large population of minorities. For instance, a large population of students attending public school are not as advance in their English vocabulary in comparison to those whose only language and form of communication in English. Public school have found form to do what they can with English Language Learners (ELL) students, because they know the obstacle it is to students to master a second language. In the United States English has been the dominant language that is thought inside of the classroom, and the challenge for ELL student is to make the effort to perform to the best of their abilities inregards to learning English. For teachers to communicate with ELL student does poses a challenge when the student has challenges understanding are not profession in academic language. When …show more content…

Matthew P. O’Sullivant “In Laboratories for Inequality: State Experimentation and Educational Aceess for English Language Learners”, explains the challenge schools go through when public school standards are consently changing public school standards, “Although the United States has a long history of both multiculturalism and multilingulism, the state and the governments have frequently sought to limit the impact of “non-American influences on American society generally” (O’Sullivant, 687). Based on the government involvement in public school takes away from the state having a personal touch and reaching to students diversity. One of the challenges that can raise concerns for educators is not having the methods of creating a lesson plan that can be related to students in a personal level. One of the ways teachers create learning lesson to be personal for students is by adapting to their current knowledge in their native language. O’Sullivant, focal point is the government control has when it comes to the education of those who are ELL students, and the need to always change school standards to remove students native language. The challenge of ELL students to no longer be fluent in their native language can become difficult transition for students when they will eventually need it in the future for imployment. The CCSS main objective is to

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