As classrooms across the globe become increasingly more diverse, it is imperative that educators understand how to meet the needs of students with varying demographic backgrounds. Emerging Issues and Trends in Education presents case studies from academics who have all at one point been teachers in K–12 classrooms, addressing topics such as STEM as well as global issues related to race, gender education, education policy, and parental engagement. The contributors take an international approach, including research about Nigerian, Chinese, Native American, and Mexican American classrooms. With a focus on multidisciplinary perspectives, Emerging Issues and Trends in Education is reflective of the need to embrace different ways of looking at problems to improve education for all students.

Theodore S. Ransaw is a Curriculum and Instruction Specialist, a Research Specialist in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, and Affiliated Faculty in African American and African Studies at Michigan State University.

Richard Majors, a former Clinical Fellow at Harvard Medical School, is an Honorary Professor at University of Colorado–Colorado Springs. He is the coauthor of Cool Pose: The Dilemmas of Black Manhood in America, which is considered a classic in the field.