Today it is important to recognize our diverse communitie and reflect on the implications of a multicultural classroom . There are many do's and dont's envolved within Faculty and inside the classrrom that are breifly addressed on this link. All educators should familarize themselves with these topic and its implications to insure that their assessements are in fact fair. Right not the knowledge of the individual school districts is the knowledge that counts because each school district has the authority to determine the content of its curriculum. Schools can decide how information is organized and presented.
School can decide what information is presented.
Because each district is autonomous, the knowledge of principals, teachers, and school board members determine the curriculum that will be taught to students. Right now a narrow group has developed the showme standards, and there is the issue of how more diverse groups can be represented by the standards. Multicultural Literacy is not addressed by the standards, and would be a very difficult thing to include because of the quantity of different groups taht deserve representation. Several controversal questions are brought up by this issue and should be considered before implementing multicultural education into the standards. Although many different perspectives are intended to be introduced by the standards, it would be very difficult to include multicultural education into the standards.