Assessing Student Multicultural Attitudes, Knowledge, And Skills in Teacher Education‪.‬

Introduction Although the teacher education profession's recent attention to multicultural education is to be lauded, research needs to be conducted to attempt to define what constitutes an effective program. This discourse has become increasingly more important given the rapidly changing demographics of the United States. The decade of 1990-2000 witnessed a 57% increase in the United States foreign-born population ... The US Census Bureau (2000) predicts that people of color will make up 38% of the nation's population by 2025 and 47% by 2050. Schools are increasingly culturally diverse and, according to Gollnick and Chinn (2004), more than one third of the school population today is comprised of children of color while the teaching force is "86.5% white and 75% female" (p. 4). While the demographics of the undergraduate population in this study are similar to those cited by Gollnick and Chinn, the graduate population is much more racially diverse and includes more males.