Creating Inclusive, Multicultural Classrooms

In my previous post, I discussed the achievement gap between white students and students of color and concluded by saying that some steps in closing the gap would be to work to eliminate racist attitudes in schools and introduce multicultural curricula.

The Achievement Gap

As I discussed in my first post, standardized tests do not actually test what we think they do. Rather, as Deborah Meier says, "they are designed for sorting students" (107), and a lot of that sorting falls along racial lines.

Evaluations in the Era of Standardized Testing

In her book In Schools We Trust, Deborah Meier discusses many of the problems with standardized tests, and thus the inherent problems in our current education system, where "success," "achievement," and "failure" are based on those test scores.