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How can being bilingual be an asset for white students and a deficit for immigrants?

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Ángel Díaz, 16, works on an assignment in his Spanish-language humanities class at Margarita Muñiz Academy in Boston. David Nieto, executive director of the BUENO Center for Multicultural Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s School of Education. Photo: Tara García Mathewson.

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When black history isn’t relegated to a single month

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Higher Education. Leave this field empty if you're human: But when Carson as U.S. Many multicultural education advocates have promoted curricula that expand the perspectives in American history. The pushback to the ethnic studies and multicultural education movements is about protecting white history.

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