A work specifically written to encourage research into multicultural education and to help researchers work through some of the inherent problems that face schools with mulicultural students.

Part 1 The Marginalization of Multicultural Discourse: Research and Multicultural Education - Barriers, Needs and Boundaries Carl A.Grant and Susan Millar The Marginalized Discourse of Minority Intellectual Thought in Traditional Writings on Teaching Beverly M.Gordon Multicultural Education - From a Compensatory to a Scholarly Foundation Ellen Swartz Part 2 Conducting Multicultural Education Research: Reflections on the Researcher in a Multicultural Environment Lois Weis Using Quantitative Methods to Explore Multicultural Education Gary Glen Price Using Multicultural Strategies to Explore Multicultural Education in a School District Kathryn Borman et al Manifestations of Inequality - Overcoming Resistance in Multicultural Foundation Courses Roberta Ahlquist Culturally Relevant Teaching - The Key to Making Multicultural Education Work Gloria Ladson-Billings The Language Minority Student and Multicultural Education Hilda Hernandez Success Stories Lourdes Diaz Soto Relationships Between Home, Community and School - Multicultural Considerations and Research Issues in Early Childhood Marianne Bloch and Beth Swadener Part 3 The Social Impacts of Multiculturalism in Education: Schools and Opportunities for Multicultural Contact Cora Bagley Marratt et al Multicultural Education - Policies and Practices in Teacher Education Donna M.Gollnick Policy Analysis of State Multicultural Education Programs Robert Crumpton