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Socioeconomic Influences

• Increasing Cultural Understanding between Mexican-Americans and Whites in a Multiethnic School
  A program was developed to create a positive school climate in a multiethnic school to reduce conflict among students. The targeted population consisted of students in kindergarten through grade six in a school in a low socioeconomic environment in a rural community in northern Illinois.
• Intercultural and Multicultural Education as Cultural Encounter and Reflection: Innovative Programs at the International Center for the Study of Education Policy and Human Values
  Describes the International Center for the Study of Educational Policy and Human Values at the University of Maryland. Asserts that it has achieved its two original goals of assisting experienced leaders to integrate an intercultural dimension into programs and develop model intercultural programs and training materials.
• Ourselves as Students: Multicultural Voices in the Classroom
  Fifty-eight college students from widely diverse backgrounds at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, discuss the impact of gender, race, social class, religion, nationality, age, sexual orientation, or disability on their educational experience.
• Race, Class, and Gender Considerations in Nursing Education
  The curriculum revolution in nursing education is a direct result of outdated modes of teaching and learning that fail to prepare students for nursing in a diverse society. Little dialog is occurring on the topic of the inclusion of multiculturalism into the curriculum.