Figure 28. “I have a dream that one day down in Alabama . . . little black boys and little black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and little white girls as sisters and brothers.”—Martin Luther King Jr.

Figure 29. An inclusive educational institution holds the promise of a new type of twenty-first-century school—a place of expanding knowledge that views diversity of language, thought, and culture as a learning opportunity.

Figure 30. The effects of such racially integrated classrooms are multigenerational.

Figure 31. Integrated schools are an obvious remedy to discriminatory attitudes and prejudices born of isolation and ignorance.

Figure 32. Integrated schools inherently afford every student access to the cultural competency and world-class education necessary to live, work, and succeed in America’s multicultural tomorrow.

Figure 33. Enlightened schools need to devise strategies to accommodate every student from different parts of the community by providing the kind of enriched educational experience that brings diverse groups of learners together in a working relationship.

Figure 34. The mesh of new innovative ways of learning among diverse students may well contribute to learning by building on a wider range of prior knowledge. By gaining and using new information through their online reading and testing, these diverse students then join in a planned field experience that includes in-person observations, experimentations, and reflections.