Title: Multicultural Education
Product review: Unlike the authors of this book, I will admit that I approach education with a bias. I believe that progressive ideas have done much damage to education in America. So needless to say, I wasn't looking forward to having to read this book for a CLAD course. To me, this book is very frustrating and one-sided, pushing a particular political agenda -- even though they don't say so. I found very little opposition research to show that the authors wanted to give teachers research from both sides when discussing tough, academic questions. Instead, the book is filled with self-fulfilling research that doesn't look at other possible causes for problems faced by today's educators. Maybe if those responsible for teaching the teachers would present both sides of the story and let the "educators" decide, then the teachers would be able to do the same with their students. But that is probably too much to ask of progressive minded people.
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