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Leading for Diversity: How School LEaders Promote Interethnic Relations

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I purchased this as a textbook for a grad level class. More editing is needed for this textbook. Someone did not do their job very well. A book that is going to be read by educators should be 100% accurate and usable. Here are two examples:

1. Table 2.2 on page 30 lists one contextual support as "District provides supports of various kinds (see Appendix B)." There is not an appendix B in the text. There is a "Resource B," which I assume is what was meant. This is an inconsistency. Page 30 should have the word "Resource," or the name of Resource B which starts on page 183 should be renamed Appendix B.

2. On page 186, the organization "Network of Educators on the Americas (NECA)" has the incorrect website listed. The website at the end of the paragraph saya [...]. This is incorrect because it is actually the website for the NEXT organization on the list, "Teaching for Change."

Mistakes in editing like this reflect badly on the writers of the book. I would not purchase books from Corwin Press unless it is a required text for a class, because of this. The website for Corwin is[...]