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I completely disagree with the previous reviewers who wrote negatively about this book. From the very first page of the introduction through the end of this text book, I was so impressed at the thoroughness in covering aspects of culture in America, especially that of students in today’s school system.

A reviewer complained that it didn’t give any solutions for solving problems in schools. First of all, this textbook presents the facts and information. A student is to take the problems that these students face and use them to find solutions. Sometiems the solutions are quite obvious. However, you must realize that giving people the solutions without explaining the reasons why first is quite dangerous and extremely ignorant. If solution book is what you are looking for, read C.M. Charles’ “Building Classroom Discipline” (7th Edition).

But even that book doesn’t over the diverse cultures that our schools contain today. The editors/authors of this book were very inclusive in writing compiling this textbook and I highly commend them and highly recommend them to you.

This book covers the different struggles that different groups encounter, their origins, the reasons why they have sustained or haven’t and why it is important to acknowledge the multiculturalism in our schools. Whoever didn’t “get” this book obviously didn’t understand what the title meant. I question if those reviewers even read the book, much less the introduction to the text book.

Kudos to Donna Gollnick and Philip Chinn on the best text book I’ve ever perused!
Rating: 5 / 5

This book was a required reading for an undergrad “Teaching Diverse Populations” class. I had hoped that the book would be about breaking the barriers between races, classes, sexes etc.. I was wrong. The entire book from start to finish told us how the dominant culture is wrong, and others in society are not. Prejudice against dominant culture. It irked me that it used politically correct terms for almost every culture, but white. It rarely used European American. I thought this book would be about strategies and methods of teaching diverse students not a one-book crusade against “the man.”

The only reason this book gets two stars as opposed to one is because the examples that started each chapter did get me thinking. As well as a few of the other critical thinking exercises in the book. Too bad there were was not more of those, and less text.

If you are a teacher planning on using this book STOP and look for another book that is better suited by giving more concrete examples, strategies, and methods of teaching. If you are a student required to read this book…I am sorry.

Rating: 2 / 5