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Mendez VS Westminster19 May 1947
"In Orange County in 1947, Mexican-American Gonzalo Mendez and his Puerto Rican wife Felicitas challenged the practice of school segregation in California. attending white-only schools." -
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Women's Rights Movement
Teachers Organize!In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the women's rights movement joined this push for education reform. Feminist scholars and other women activists, like groups of color before them, insisted on curricula more inclusive of their histories and experiences. They challenged the discrepancy low number of female administrators relative to the percentage of female teachers, (Banks) -
NCATE
The National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) issued standards for the accreditation of teacher education. The standards required all NCATE member institutions to implement components, courses, and programs in multicultural education. -
James Banks
James Banks, one of the pioneers of multicultural education, was among the first multicultural education scholars to examine schools as social systems from a multicultural context. He grounded his conceptualization of multicultural education in the idea of “educational equality.” According to Banks, in order to maintain a “multicultural school environment,” all aspects of the school had to be examined and transformed" (Banks, 1981)
