Contents: Series Foreword. Preface. N.K. Shimahara, Introduction. Part I: Ethnicity, Race, and Academic Achievement.D.E. Foley, Reconceptualizing Ethnicity and Educational Achievement. V.O. Wang, Confucianism and the Educational Process: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese and Chinese American Identity Development in Education. Part II: Ethnic and Racial Identities in National Contexts.G. Horenczyk, U. Ben-Shalom, Multicultural Identities and Adaptation of Young Immigrants in Israel. H. Ikeda, Buraku Students and Cultural Identity: The Case of a Japanese Minority. C. Soudien, Culture, Race, and Ethnicity in Education in South Africa. Part III: Changing Ethnic and Racial Maps and Education.V.R. Wedekind, Teachers, the South African State, and the Desegregation of Schools in the 1990s. J.B. Stewart, F. Abrahams, Demographic Diversity and Higher Education Reorganization in South Africa: The Applicability of U.S. Models. S. Tomlinson-Clarke, Education and Identity Within a Psychological and Sociocultural Context. Part IV: Language and National Identity.P.P. Kononenko, I.Z. Holowinsky, Educational Reform and the Language Issue in Ukraine. J. Fitz, Local Identity and National Systems: The Case of Wales. T. Xing, W. Yanheng, Bilingualism and Bilingual Education in China.