Outline for 2009 workshop "Around the World in 80 Books" presented at the NJEA Convention in Atlantic City. Contains great ideas for using multicultural books in the classroom.
The ACT Government is seeking written comment or submissions from individuals or organisations on the second draft of the ACT Multicultural Strategy 2010 -2013.
Following the initial round of co...
Christians have gotten so caught up in the battle over the misuse of the establishment clause – the freedom from religion – that they have missed entirely the ungodliness intrinsic in Amendment 1 a...
What are the limits of multiculturalism? How far should teachers go in accommodating cultural differences? Is the melting pot concept totally without merit? What should go in to our national "salad?"
Introducing a new novel by writer and poet Cheryl Snell.
After a power struggle at her university, Professor Nela Sambashivan
returns to her native India to research the mathematics of collect...
The legacy of Al-Andalus, the name that the Arabs gave to the Iberian Peninsula, whose territory is now shared by the modern European countries of Spain and Portugal. For a few brief centuries thre...
A HINT OF LIGHT is the story of a black-Korean Amerasian boy orphaned to the streets of Seoul from the time he is born. It traces his life, with his white-Korean female companion, through the gutte...
Read the first chapter of Nadine Dajani's debut novel, Fashionably Late (Forge Books, 2007).
From Publishers Weekly:
"Plucky, 20-something, Lebanese-Canadian Aline Hallaby has a promising caree...
Working up to the release of a debut album, 'Cookin' At Smalls', Kyoko Oyobe (http://www.facebook.com/kyoko.oyobe) of Okayama, Japan, stages a series of NYC jazz club dates in July at Destino, and...
By Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Short stories from around the world. Contents include:
1) Krishna and the Bird, adapted from Brahman legends; 2) Yoska's Princess, a Russian legend; 3) The Giant Smith...