Aram Ayalon

• Central Connecticut State University

The overwhelming migration of refugees from wars and famine, of which one third are children, are ruinous to their countries and impacting to the host countries. These children and youth arrive in western countries with diverse languages, cultures, and backgrounds, often showing the signs of severe trauma. The authors questioned: “How do hosting co...

The purpose of this article is fourfold. First, it identifies a growing international interest on the part of educators and school officials in finding effective ways to mentor especially poor and minority students toward academic success. Second, it reviews the literature on mentoring as it pertains to this population. Third, it details a case stu...

This qualitative study compares two small 7-12 schools in Israel created by a grassroots movement aimed at establishing college preparatory and culturally relevant schools serving poor students of Middle Eastern Jewish origin in Israel. Despite common ideology and practices, one school experienced large dropout and closed after five years, while th...

This article examined three popular multicultural education textbooks to explore the degree to which rural issues are included. Findings suggest that, overall, rurality is marginalized in these books, even when topics, such as home-school links and dialect diversity, provide opportunities to do otherwise. The study found that urban-centric views do...

This paper addresses the relevance of multicultural education in rural areas, particularly rural schools with a majority white population. Multicultural education does not lend itself to a single set of methods nor to a single curriculum. For example, one approach enhances the educational opportunities of members of minority groups, while another a...

This review was supported by a grant from the Research and Creative Endeavors Program, Potsdam College of the State University of New York.

This study explored the elements in the school environment which predict beginning teachers' burnout at the end of the first year of teaching. Two surveys were administered to 45 first-year teachers, one in the fall semester and the other several weeks before the end of the school year. The surveys queried the teachers about their current working e...