education, bilingual

A step-by-step guide for teachers across all grades and subjects to using Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI) in the classroom.

Text and photographs follow a Cuban American kindergarten teacher through her activities as she helps the children in her class learn.

The author, a disadvantaged Mexican American, writes of feelings of alienation from his family as he learned English and earned a Ph.D.

The author, a disadvantaged Mexican American, writes of feelings of alienation from his family as he learned English and earned a Ph.D.

Describes the struggle of Hispanic Americans to receive equal education, with an emphasis on New York City and the Southwest.

Explores the arguments surrounding the controversy over the sole use of English as a national language.

Contains twelve essays that provide varying perspectives on bilingual education, discussing if education should respond to the rising immigrant population, if learning English encourages assimilation, the obstacles created by No Child Left Behind legislation, and other related topics.

Examines the 1974 Supreme Court case in which a group of Chinese American parents sued the San Francisco School Board on behalf of their children for not providing a special learning environment for Chinese-speaking students.