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A strong opposition to immigration, which is seen as a threat to maintaining a country's dominant culture
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Nativism
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The concept of a homogenized United States in which cultural traditions and home languages are abandoned for the new American culture
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Melting Pot
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The concept that all cultural groups are valued components groups of the society with each group's language and traditions maintained
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Cultural Pluralism
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Being from a cultural group that is not Euro centric or of mainstream America
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Culturally diverse
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Having a home or native language other than English
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Linguistically diverse
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Students learning English as their second language
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English language learners
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When the home and school cultures are in conflict
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Cross-cultural reference
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Knowing and understanding the cultural standards from diverse communities
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Culturally competent
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Curriculum that includes multiple perspectives
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Culturally responsive
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Acceptanceand use of students'language and culture within the classroom, while also teachin them the expectations and culture of the school
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Mutual accomodation
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Characteristics of a human population
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Demographics
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Too many students from a diverse group participating in a special education category, beyond the level expected from their proportion of students
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Overrepresented
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A tool for measureing dispoportionate representation in which the percentage of students from a particular racial group receiving special education services is compared with their percenetage in teh overall school population
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Composition index
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Insufficient presence of individuals from a diversegroup in a special educaitn caetgory; smaller numbers than would be predicted by their proportion of students
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Under-representation
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Unequal proportion of group membership; over-or underrepresentation
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Disproportionate representation
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