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""CHAPTER 5: Rising Urban Poeverty and Class Discrimination Against Migrant Workers in China""""CHAPTER 6: Migrant Education and Employment Equity in Slovenia""; ""CHAPTER 7: Challenges to Recognizing Foreign Competence for Employment in Finland""; ""CHAPTER 8: Emerging from the Shadows""; ""SECTION III: EQUITY THROUGH ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION""; ""CHAPTER 9: Impact of the National Scholarship Test on Equity in Higher Education in Kyrgyzstan""; ""CHAPTER 10: Access to Higher Education in Post-Socialist Countries""; ""CHAPTER 11: PROUNI In Brazil""

Cover -- Series page -- Communication and Language: Surmounting Barriers to Cross-Cultural Understanding -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Contents -- Foreword -- Series Introduction: Communication and Language -- Volume Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: Dominant or Traditional: Which Language Use? -- Chapter 1: Local Language of Instruction for Quality Learning and Social Equity in Tanzania -- Chapter 2: Linguistic and Social Equity for Yughur and Kyrgyz National Minorities in Northwest China -- Chapter 3: Private Language Management in Singapore -- Chapter 4: The Voice of the African Traditional Healer -- Part II: Language Integration for Social Justice Empowerment -- Chapter 5: Language, Culture, and Communication -- Chapter 6: Chinglish -- Chapter 7: Social Justice Education in the Language Classroom and Beyond -- Part III: Promoting Engagement Through Non-Verbal Communication -- Chapter 8: Creating Language in a Vacuum -- Chapter 9: Auto-Photography and Captioning -- Chapter 10: Art as Language, Pedagogy, and Method -- Chapter 11: Modes of Representation as Meanings for Second-Language Learners in Hong Kong -- Chapter 12: Immigrant Students -- Part IV: Cross-Cultural Communication: Removing Barriers to Educational Equity? -- Chapter 13: Teaching ELLs in the USA -- Chapter 14: Epistemic Justice and the Communication of Non-Western Critical Theoretical Tools -- Chapter 15: The Pragmatics of Non-Compliance by Tertiary Cantonese Learners of English in Writing Tutorials -- Part V: Communication Proficiency and the Self -- Chapter 16: Self-Concepts of English-speaking and Non-English-Speaking Students in an English-Speaking Country -- Chapter 17: A Dual Disadvantage? -- About the Authors.

This article examines the root causes for the overrepresentation of African American students in special education classes and their under representation in gifted and talented programs in America's public schools. The article (a) provides a historic overview of the legal struggles for educational equity, (b) examines key issues surrounding the academic status of African American students, (c) discusses multicultural education as a remedy, and (d) recommends an appropriate course of action for educators and policy makers.