Teaching to Ethnicity, Gender, and Race: The Quest for Equality.

This book contains seven chapters, written by graduate students in teacher education, on educational strategies to promote multiculturalism and combat racial, ethnic, and gender bias in the classroom. Chapters are: (1) "Diversity and Multiculturalism: Quo Vadis? What Is Multiculturalism?" (Deborah Bradford Basey, Michelle Danner, Stacy Graham, Rebecca Jackson); (2) "Rural Class of 2000: Are We Preparing Our Students for the Multicultural World Next Door? A Survey of Calaveras Unified and Mark Twain Unified High Schools, Calaveras County, California" (Joan Goldie, Shari Pargett, Dustyn, Jim Kern, Sandra Cobbs); (3) "Gender Bias in the Classroom: Do Teachers Treat Boys and Girls the Same?" (Alexandra Garschagen, Cam Graves, Marla Heed, Ken Ishida, Greg Kalthof); (4)"Gender-Stereotypes: Who's To Blame?" (Todd Schilling, Emily Wong, Inez Rowles, Tina Kendall); (5) "Forever Homecoming Queen: Fashion Model or Role Model?" (Wendy Agari, Therese Arnaudo-Tychus, Beate Samahon, Nancy Snyder, Julie Spindler); (6) "The Issue of Color: Must It Be Black or White?" (Nancy Sherwood, Melissa Johnsen, David Bond, Karin Compise, Alex Nelson); and (7) "The Human Race: Bi-Racialism in America" (Rosalie Urtasun, Alfonzo Aguilar, Diane Montoya, Dawn Smith, Jolene Stevano). Individual chapters contain references. (SV)