Advocating for English learners: selected essays
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Main Author: Crawford, James (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Clevedon Multilingual Matters c2008
Series:Bilingual education and bilingualism 69
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-187) and index
Introduction -- Making sense of Census 2000 -- Monolingual and proud of it -- Heritage languages in America : tapping a 'hidden' resource -- Plus ça change -- Concern or intolerance : what's driving the anti-bilingual campaign? -- The bilingual education story : why can't the news media get it right? -- Ten common fallacies about bilingual education -- Agenda for inaction -- 'Accountability' vs. science in the bilingual education debate -- Hard sell : why is bilingual education so unpopular with the American public? -- Has two-way been oversold? -- Surviving the English-only assault : public attitudes and the future of language education -- Official English legislation : bad for civil rights, bad for America's interests, and even bad for English -- The Bilingual Education Act, 1968-2002 : an obituary -- No child left behind : misguided approach to school accountability for English language learners -- A diminished vision of civil rights -- The decline of bilingual education in the USA : how to reverse a troubling trend? -- Loose ends in a tattered fabric : the inconsistency of language rights in the USA.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vi, 193 p.)
ISBN:1847690742
9781847690746

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