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"The next time you see a tweet ridiculing a person or linking to someone who does, please respond with a challenge: "Is this the world you want to encourage? What does this accomplish? What does this create?""

"The world is full of noise and those that are the loudest are the ones we tend to follow but what about the quiet ones? Author Susan Cain shines a spotlight on introverts and reveals how over time our society has come to look to extroverts as leaders. Not suggesting that one is better than the other, Susan argues that the world needs an equal space between introverts and extroverts; that an innovative, creative world wouldn't be the same without the two coming together." How can we help students and teachers take advantage of this intersection of introverts and extroverts? How can we effect leadership with these two personality types? via blog post by Fenella Olynick - http://goo.gl/LjcdSh

This site shows the many benefits of multicultural education and how this is essential for our culture and society. Microcultures are discussed as well as a conceptual framework of a global perspective on multicultural education. One of major themes in this site is the need for curriculum updates to better educate today's and future students. Goals such as increasing awareness, combating prejudices, and instilling core values are elaborated upon in great detail as well.

Francisco Hidalgo TEXAS AEM UNIVERSITY-KINGSVILLE Rudolfo Chávez-Chávez NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY Jean C. Ramage UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. KEARNEY This chapter surveys the intellectual evolution of multicultural education and analyzes it within a naturalistic framework for understanding the cultural differences and the dynamics of culture contact in an increasingly diverse society.

In today's society, there are many reasons that teachers and students and other educators need to embrace multicultural education. Education shouldn't be complete without it especially since it teaches us valuable life skills it's important for teachers to research cultures extremely thoroughly before teaching their students about them.