After reading Chapter 3, you should be able to:

• Explain how cultural and linguistic diversity is affecting U.S. classrooms.
   
• Define culture, multiculturalism, multicultural education, and bilingual education.
   
• Identify six instructional options for teaching students who are bilingual.
   
• Summarize the issues associated with the disproportionate representation of culturally and linguistically diverse learners in special education.
   
• Describe the challenges confronting educators when assessing students from culturally and linguistically diverse groups.