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American educator

For the Scottish civil engineer, see James Arthur Banks. For others, see James Banks (disambiguation).

James Albert Banks (born 1941^[1]) is an American educator and the Kerry and Linda Killinger Endowed Chair in Diversity Studies Emeritus and founding director of the University of Washington's Center for Multicultural Education, which is now the Banks Center for Educational Justice.

He focuses on the discipline of multicultural education.

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Approaches to multicultural curriculum reform

Biography

Banks grew up on a farm in Arkansas and attended elementary and high school in Lee County, Arkansas.

He received his associate degree with high scholastic honors from Wilson Junior College in Chicago (which is now Kennedy–King College) in 1963^[2]).

A year later, he received a bachelor's degree in elementary education and social science with honors from Chicago Teachers College, which is now Chicago State University. He received his master's and Ph.D. degrees in these field