Culturally Proficient Inquiry: A Lens for Identifying and Examining Educational Gaps »

Randall B. Lindsey is principal associate of The Robins Group. He is professor emeritus at California State University, Los Angeles, where he served as chair of the Division of Administration and Counseling in the School of Education. He has served as a junior and senior high school teacher of history and as an administrator of school desegregation and staff development programs. He has worked extensively with school districts as they plan for and experience changing populations.

Using cultural proficiency as a lens, the authors guide educators through the process of gathering and analyzing data to meet the needs of historically underserved students.

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Part I. Creating Culturally Proficient Schools
1. The Unfolding of the Democracy as a Moral Imperative
2. The Tools of Cultural Proficiency
Part II. Knowing the Demographics of Your School
3. NAEP Data Show the Way, With Limitations
4. The Peer Group Model: Achievement and Access Data
5. Planning the Cultural Proficiency Inquiry
6. Rubrics as Keys to the Cultural Proficiency Inquiry
Part III. The ABC Case Study School and Your School
7. Data Set #1: Finding Meaning in Achievement Data
8. Data Set #2: Finding Meaning in Student Access Data
9. Data Set #2 (Extended): Finding Meaning in Access Data Unique to Secondary Schools
10. Data Set #3: Profiles of Educator Conversations About Your Students
11. Advocacy for Social Justice
Appendix
References
Index