This book provides strong coverage of the standards movement and high stakes testing, places this reform initiative in historical perspective, brings it up to date with the Bush administration's education agenda, and analyzes its effect upon multicultural education. The third edition continues to offer a critical analysis of race, class, gender, and economic status as they apply to schools; and, provides hundreds of practical strategies for classroom use, based on the experience of teachers in geographically diverse, multicultural classrooms. For future teachers in the multicultural classroom.