Recommended Reading
50 Ways to Close the Achievement Gap
Carolyn Downey, Fenwick English, and Betty Steffy
100+ Educational Strategies to Teach Children of Color
Jawanza Kunjufu
A Handbook for Teachers of African American Children
Baruti Kafele
A Multicultural Approach to Physical Education: Proven Strategies for Middle and High School
Rhonda Clements and Suzanne Kinzler
A Teacher's Handbook for Cultural Diversity: Families, and the Special Education System: Communication and Empowerment
Beth Harry
Ability, Equity, and Culture: Sustaining Inclusive Urban Education Reform
Edited by Elizabeth Kozleski and Kathleen King Thorius
Addressing Over-Representation of African American Students in Special Education: The Prereferral Process. An Administrator's Guide:
Council for Exceptional Children
The African-American Century
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cornel West
The Assassination of Hole in the Day
Anton Treuer
Beyond Resistance: Youth Activism and Community Change
Shawn Ginwright, edited by: Pedro Noguera. and Julio Cammarota
Black Ants and Buddhists: Thinking Critically and Teaching Differently in the Primary Grades
Mary Cowhey
Black Teachers on Teaching
Michele Foster
Building Cultural Reciprocity with Families: Case Studies in Special Education
Beth Harry, Maya Kalyanpur, and Monimalika Day
Can We Talk About Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation
Beverly D. Tatum
Class and Schools: Using Social, Economic, and Educational Reform to close the Black-White Achievement Gap
Richard Rothstein
Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools
Steven Brill
Closing the Achievement Gap: Reaching and Teaching High Poverty Learners: 101 Top Strategies To Help High Poverty Learners Succeed
Tiffany Chane'l Anderson
Courageous Conversations About Race
Curtis Linton and Glenn Singleton
Creating the Opportunity to Learn: Moving from Research to Practice to Close the Achievement Gap
A. Wade Boykin and Pedro Noguera
Crossing Over to Canaan: The Journey of New Teachers in Diverse Classrooms
Gloria Ladson-Billings
Cultural Diversity, Families, and the Special Education System: Communication and Empowerment
Beth Harry
Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching and Learning: Classroom Practices for Student Success
Sharroky Hollie
Culturally Proficient Coaching: Supporting Educators to create Equitable Schools
Delores Lindsey, Richard Martinez, and Randall Lindsey
Culturally Proficient Instruction: A Guide for People Who Teach
Kikanza Nuri Robins, Randall B. Lindsey, Delores B. Lindsey, Raymond D. Terrell
The Culturally Proficient School: An Implementation Guide for School Leaders
Randall B. Lindsey, Laraine M. Roberts, and Franklin CampbellJones
Culturally Responsive Teaching: Theory, Research, and Practice (Multicultural Education Series, No. 8)
Geneva Gay
Culture in Special Education: Building Reciprocal Family-Professional Relationships
Maya Kalyanpur and Beth Harry
Discipline Strategies for the Classroom: Working with Students
Ruby K. Payne
Do You See What I See? A Diversity Tale for Retaining People of Color (Essential Knowledge Resource)
Janice Fenn and Chandra Goforth Irvin
The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children
Gloria Ladson-Billings
Eliminating Racial Profiling in School Discipline: Cultures in Conflict
Martha R. Bireda
The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each Other
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Evaluating Professional Development, V.1
Thomas R. Guskey
Every Day Anti Racism: Getting Real About Race in School
Edited by Mica Pollock
Everything You Know About Indians is Wrong
Paul Chaat Smith
Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask
Anton Treuer
Facilitator's Guide: Cultural Proficiency: A Manual for School Leaders
Randall B. Lindsey, Kikanza Nuri Robins, and Raymond D. Terrell
Freedom's Plow: Teaching in the Multicultural Classroom
Theresa Perry and Jim W. Fraser
Getting to Got It! Helping Struggling Students Learn How to Learn
Betty K. Garner
The Global Achievement Gap
Tony Wagner
Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal
Patty Loew
It's Being Done: Academic Success in Unexpected Schools
Karin Chenoweth
Keeping Black Boys Out of Special Education
Jawanza Kunjufu
The Killing of Crazy Horse
Thomas Powers
Letters to a Young Brother: MANifest Your Destiny
Hill Harper
The Light in Their Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities
Sonia Nieto
Managing Diverse Classrooms: How To Build On Students' Cultural Strengths
Carrie Rothstein-Fisch and Elise Trumbull
Minority Families in the Rural United States: Family Processes, Child care, and Early Schooling*
Bratsch-Hines, M., Baker, C., & Vernon-Feagans, L
*Appears in "Rural Ethnic Minority Youth and Families in the United States: Theory, Research, and Applications".
Minority Students in Special and Gifted Education
National Research Council
More Courageous Conversations About Race
Glenn Singleton
Motivating and Preparing Black Youth for Success
Jawanza Kunjufu
Motivating Black Males to Achieve In School & In Life
Baruti Kafele
Multiracial Special Education: Culturally Responsive Teaching
Festus Obiakor
Patty Loew
Native People of Wisconsin: Revised and Expanded Edition
Patty Loew
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
Randall Kennedy
The Opportunity Gap: Achievement and Inequality in Education
Carol deShano da Silva and edited by: James Philip Huguley, Zenub Kakli, and Radhika Rao
Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
Lisa Delpit
Privilege, Power and Difference
Allan G. Johnson
Race: A History Beyond Black and White
Marc Aronson
Racial Inequity in Special Education
Edited by Daniel J. Losen and Gary Orfield
Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys
Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson, Ph.D.
Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching About Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word
Linda Christensen
Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood
William Pollack, Ph.D.
Rethinking Our Classrooms: Teaching for Equity and Justice, Volume 1
B. Bigelow, L. Christensen, S. Karp, B. Miner, and B. Peterson, eds.
Rethinking Our Classrooms: Teaching for Equity and Justice, Volume 2
B. Bigelow, B. Harvey, S. Karp, & L. Miller, eds.
Seventh Generation Earth Ethics: Native Voices of Wisconsin
Patty Loew
The Seventh Generation: Native Students Speak About Finding the Good Path
Amy Bergstrom, Linda Miller Cleary, and Thomas D. Peacock
The Skin that We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom
Edited by Lisa Delpit and Joanne Kilgour Dowdy
Strengthening the African American Educational Pipeline
Edited by Jerlando F. Jackson
Swagger: 10 Urgent Rules for Raising Boys in an Era of Failing Schools, Mass Joblessness, and Thug Culture
Lisa Bloom
Take Action! Lesson Plans for a Multicultural Classroom
Lori Langer de Ramirez
Teacher Talk: Multicultural Lesson Plans for the Elementary Classroom
Deborah Eldridge
Teaching Stories
Judy Logan
Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks & Get Students Excited About Doing History
James W. Loewen
Tools for Teaching the History of Civil Rights in Milwaukee and the Nation
Michael Edmonds
Trust in Schools: A Core Resource for Improvement
Anthony S. Bryk, and Barbara Schneider
Unfinished Business: Closing the Racial Achievement Gap in our Schools
Edited by Pedro A. Noguera and Jean Yonemura Wing
We Can't Teach What We Don't Know: White Teachers, Multiracial Schools (2nd ed.)
Gary R. Howard
What if All the Kids are White? Anti-Bias Multicultural Education with Young Children and Families
Louise Derman-Sparks and Patricia G. Ramsey
What's the Matter with White People? Why We Long for a Golden Age That Never Was
Joan Walsh
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do
Claude Steele
White Teachers/Diverse Classrooms: A Guide to Building Inclusive Schools, Promoting High Expectations, and Eliminating Racism
Edited by Julie Landsman and Chance W. Lewis
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race
Beverly D. Tatum
Why Are So Many Minority Students in Special Education?: Understanding Race & Disability in Schools
Beth Harry and Janette Klingner
Why We Teach
Sonia Nieto
Young, Gifted and Black: Promoting High Achievement Among African-American Students
Theresa Perry, Claude Steele, & Asa Hilliard III
Student and Community Voices
Zaj Lus: A Hmong Children's Story Collection
Learn more about the D.C. Everest Area Schools Oral History Program
Hmong in the Modern World
Learn more about the D.C. Everest Area Schools Oral History Program