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- 1From:Best of Pact Press: A Collection of the Best Articles on Racial IdentityPlanning curriculum for preschoolers is always one of my most challenging tasks as a teacher. Preschoolers are interested in everything, just about! It is easy to come up with many activities and projects. It is,...
- 2From:Got Vision? Unity of Vision in Policy and Strategy: What It Is and Why We Need ItSummary What do we need when confronted by adversaries who do not adhere to our rule set or social code? Drawing on India's extensive counterinsurgency experiences, as well as British and American examples of...
- 3From:Setting the Table for DiversityI like being a human person because even though I know that the material, social, political, cultural, and ideological conditions in which we find ourselves almost always generate divisions that make difficult the...
- 4From:Setting the Table for DiversityOn 3 November 2007, I was given the privilege of addressing members of the National Collegiate Honors Council at the NCHC Conference in Denver, Colorado. This conference was especially memorable because it gave me an...
- 5From:Anti-Semitism WorldwideIn a comprehensive study of the Roma (Gypsies) in former communist Eastern Europe, entitled "Orphans of Transition: Gypsies in Eastern Europe" (1998), Zoltan Barany, a noted researcher of the topic, claimed there were...
- 6From:Setting the Table for DiversityIntroduction In a city like Philadelphia where most of the residents are people of color, pockets exist within it that are underexposed to the city's ethnic and class stratifications. Philadelphia University rests in...
- 7From:The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (3rd ed.)The view that the various cultures in a society merit equal respect and scholarly interest. It became a significant force in American society in the 1970s and 1980s as African-Americans, Latinos, and other ethnic groups...
- 8From:Setting the Table for DiversityAs demonstrated in the various essays in this monograph, diversity takes on different meaning in different places. These collected statements on diversity are provided as a resource documenting the ways in which NCHC's...
- 9From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Theologian, educator, and social critic Ivan Illich (born 1926) sought bridges between cultures and explored the bases of people's views of history and reality. Ivan Illich was born on September...
- 10From:Women in German YearbookThe article undertakes a comparative investigation of the diverging histories of two communities of people of color that have been located in Germany for many generations: the Sinti and Roma and the Black Germans. My...
- 11From:Setting the Table for DiversityThe Columbia College Honors Program has been lucky over the past several years to have among its members a number of highly motivated and talented international students who have enriched the diversity and intellectual...
- 12From:Setting the Table for DiversityKnow thyself. --Socrates All I can do is tell the truth. No, that isn't so--I have missed it. There is no truth that, in passing through awareness, does not lie. But one runs after it all the same. --Jacques...
- 13From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsMarch 31, 2011 Summary The United States, the third most populous country globally, accounts for about 4.5% of the world's population. The U.S. population--currently estimated at 308.7 million persons--has more...
- 14From:National Institute on Drug Abuse PamphletsA multicultural version of a substance use prevention program tested in middle schools in Phoenix, Arizona, proved at least as effective as culturally targeted versions, according to recent research by Drs. Michael L....
- 15From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsApril 1, 2011 Summary The purpose of the diversity immigrant visa lottery is, as the name suggests, to encourage legal immigration from countries other than the major sending countries of current immigrants to the...