Topic: Reflect on current trends in education such as standard movement, multiculturalism, women's studies programs, authentic assessment, the common core curriculum and constructionism. Do these...

Multiculturalism, Women’s Studies in Present Academia
Women's studies, cultural studies and multicultural trends in academia has seen a surge in the recent years and has an impressive record for such an educational upstart. The extraordinary propagation of courses and programs; the growth and distribution of feminist scholarship; its slow but a prolific encompassing of the field of differences among women; the spread of research centers on women and gender; and the importance and extent of both public and private funding have been well documented elsewhere (Chamberlain; Howe 1977 and 1991; Howe and Ahlum; Schmitz et al.; Sheftall; Stimpson). Feminist theorists have long criticised Sartrean existentialism for its inherent anti-feminism.1 How then does Beauvoir carry off her feminist project? Does she really manage to transform existentialist discourse into a rhetoric of liberation or do we have to reject The Second Sex as an awkward reminder of the inevitable limitations of a feminist analysis conducted in isolation, without the support of a broad political movement? In California, then, proponents of multiculturalism struggled themselves over what narratives of history will be taught schools. According to Catherine Cornbleth, who served State Commission charged with evolving similar curricular lines, the California textbooks present a monolithic grand American history built on a model derived from the European immigrants living on the East Coast. In other State of Texas, with which California has now agreed to emphasis is on "the assimilation of racial, ethnic, and in the...