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Apple, Michael W. and Beane, James A., Democratic Schools, ASCD, Alexandria, Virginia, 1995

Au, Kathryn H., Literacy Instruction in Multicultural Settings, Harcourt College Publishers, New York, NY, 1993

Canada, Geoffrey, Reaching Up For Manhood: Transforming the Lives of Boys in America, Beacon Press, 1999

*Center for Multicultural Education, Diversity Within Unity, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2000

Cole, Robert W., Educating Everybody's Children: Teaching Strategies for Diverse Learners, ASCD, 1995

Davidman, Leonard and Davidman, Patricia T., Teaching with a Multicultural Perspective, Longman, New York, NY, 2001

*Delpit, Lisa, Other People’s Children, the New Press, New York, NY, 1995

Dewey, John, Experience in Education, Scribner, New York, NY, 1997

*DuBois, W.E.B., The Souls of Black Folk, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, NY, 1994

Gay, Geneva, Culturally Responsive Teaching, Teachers College Press, New York, NY, 2000

*Ginsberg, Margery B. and Wlodkowski, Creating Highly Motivating Classrooms for All Students, Jossey-Basss, San Francisco, CA, 2000

Gruwell, Erin, The Freedom Writers Diary, Doubleday, New York, NY, 1999

Hersch, Patricia, A Tribe Apart, Ballentine Books, New York, NY, 1998

Hong, Maria, Growing Up Asian, Avon Books, 1993

Hooks, Bell, Teaching to Transgress, Routledge, New York, NY, 1994

Howard, Gary, We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know, Teachers College Press, New York, NY, 1999

*Jackson, Anthony W., Davis, Gayle A., Turning Points, Teachers College Press, New York, NY, 2000

Kozol, Jonothan, Amazing Grace, Harper Collins, New York, NY, 1996

Kuykendall, Crystal, From Rage to Hope: Strategies for Reclaiming Black and Hispanic Students, National Education Service, 1992

Landsman, Julie, A White Teacher Talks About Race, The Scarecrow Press Inc., Lanham, MD, 2001

Lee, Valerie E., Restructuring High Schools for Equity and Excellence, Teachers College Press, New York, NY, 2001

Meier, Debra, The Power of Their Ideas, Beacon Press, Boston, MA, 1995

Michie, Gregory, holler if you hear me: the education of a teacher and his students, Teaching for Social Justice Series, Teachers College Press, 1999

*National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP), Breaking Ranks, NASSP, Reston, VA, 1996

Nieto, Sonia, Affirming Diversity, Longman, New York, NY, 2000

Paley, Vivian Gussin, White Teacher, Harvard University Press, 2000

Payne, Ruby K., A Framework for Understanding Poverty, RFT Publishing Co., Baytown, TX, 1998

Pignatelli, Frank and Pflaum, Susanna W., Celebrating Diverse Voices, Corwin Press, Inc., 1992

Suskind, Ron, A Hope in the Unseen, Broadway Books, New York, NY, 1998

*Tatum, Beverly Daniel, "Why are all the Black Kids Sitting together in the Cafeteria?", Basic Books, New York, NY, 1997

West, Cornel, Race Matters, Vintage Books, 1994

*Commonly read among Federal Way School District administrative personnel.

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