Dr. Etta R. Hollins is Professor in the Department of Teacher Education, California State University—Hayward. Dr. Joyce E. King is Director of Teacher Education in the Department of Counseling Psychology and Education, Santa Clara University. Dr. Warren C. Hayman is Program Coordinator at the School of Continuing Studies at the Johns Hopkins University.

"I read the entire book, page by page, to determine whether or not old information was being rehashed. I found that this is not the case. I also read to ascertain how my students would respond to it as a text. The volume passed both tests."—Clara A. New, University of Wisconsin—Parkside

• ForewordIrving P. McPhailAcknowledgments Part I. Shaping a Vision for the Schooling of Diverse Populations 1. Cultural Congruence in InstructionKathryn H. Au and Alice J. Kawakami 2. The Purpose of Schooling for African American Children: Including Cultural KnowledgeJoyce E. King Part II. Developing a Holistic View of Schooling for Diverse Populations 3. Teaching for Change in AppalachiaRebecca Eller-Powell 4. Culturally Responsible Pedagogy in Action: American Indian Magnet SchoolCornel D. Pewewardy 5. Attributes of Effective Schools for Language Minority StudentsEugene E. Garcia 6. Teaching and Learning in Puerto Rican/Latino Collaboratives: Implications for Teacher EducationMaria E. Torres-Guzman, Carmen I. Mercado, Ana Helvia Quintero, and Diana Rivera Viera 7. Who Will Teach Our Children: Preparing Teachers to Successfully Teach African American StudiesGloria Ladson-Billings Part III. Taking a Closer Look at Schooling for One Sociocultural Group: African Americans 8. Benchmarks in Meeting the Challenges of Effective Schooling for African American YoungstersEtta R. Hollins, Helen Smiler, and Kathleen Spencer 9. Understanding the African American LearnerBarbara J. Shade 10. New and Prevailing Misconceptions of African American English for Logic and MathematicsJohn Baugh 11. Ethnic Identity as a Variable in the Learning EquationCurtis W. Branch 12. Effective Black Teachers:  A Literature ReviewMichele Foster 13. Afrocultural Expression and Its Implications for SchoolingA. Wade Boykin Contributors Index