2nd Edition
Forked Tongue The Politics of Bilingual Education
By Rosalie Pedalino Porter
Copyright 1996
378 Pages
by
Routledge
380 Pages
by
Routledge
361 Pages
by
Routledge
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Today children who are not fluent in English—legal and illegal immigrants, refugees, and native born—are the fastest growing portion of our population, accounting for more than half the children in classrooms in many city schools. Bilingual education programs established by federal and state laws have required that such students be taught basic subjects in their native languages rather than in... Read more
1: Firsthand Experience in Educating Language Minorities; 2: Confronting the Political Power of the Bilingual Bureaucracy; 3: Reassessing the Assumptions Underlying Twenty Years of Bilingual Education; 4: Learning from Other Multilingual Societies; 5: The Fresh Breeze of Innovation in U.S. Alternative Programs; 6: Beyond Bilingual Education: Language Policy, CulturalPluralism, and Nationhood; 7: Political Extremes Intensify the Language Debate; 8: Decisions for the Future; Epilogue
Biography
Rosalie Porter
