... to provide quality comprehensive educational and support services to their increasingly diverse student population. The growth rates between 1980 and 1990 range from approximately 13 percent for African Americans to 108 percent for Asian Americans (Sue, 1991). It is estimated that by the turn of the century, approximately 30 percent of the United States population will be from a racial/ethnic minority group (Office ... National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Gorski (2001) reports that "African American and Latino households are only about one-third as likely to have ...

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... example, that the tendency to attribute actions to persons relative to situations, known as the Fundamental Attribution Error, was pervasive -and universal. In this study Miller compare Americans and Asian Indians of varying ages in the way they explained the causes of other people's behavior. While westerners tend to see individuals as autonomous and motivated by internal forces, many ... everyday social explanation that explored in a cross-cultural investigation undertaken among Indian and American adults and children (ages 8,11 and 15 years). It is demonstrated that an older ages Amer...

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