This annotated bibliography is reformatted and customized by the Center for Positive Practices. Some of the authors featured on this page include Cambridge Harvard Univ., Glendon Drake, Deborah Brown, C. J. Dodson, Christopher Chow, Melissa E. Whiting, Katherine Peter, Catherine Beavis, Brooklyn New York City Board of Education, and Russell Leong.
(1975). What Can Career Education Offer the Bilingual Bicultural Student?, Thrust for Education Leadership. Defined Career Education and Bilingual Education and outlined the objectives and responsibilities of both in providing bilingual-bicultural students the educational tools to assist them in making decisions necessary for achieving their goals. Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Students, Career Education, Educational Objectives
(1978). A Pioneer Chinatown Teacher: An Interview with Alice Fong Yu, Amerasia Journal. In this interview, Alice Fong Yu discusses her background, what it was like to teach at the Commodore Elementary School in San Francisco Chinatown, and her views on busing, bilingual education, and the Bakke Case. [More] Descriptors: Chinese Americans, Elementary Education, Interviews, Opinions
(2004). Unpacking the Evaluation Process: A Study of Transitional Bilingual Education, Studies in Educational Evaluation. This article examines the process of an ongoing, independent evaluation of atransitional Spanish/English bilingual program housed at a large, urban school district in Northern California. The program is designed to enhance Kindergarten through Grade 5 (K-5) students' English language proficiency, as well as their English performance in academic subject areas. The article looks at how the evaluation team addressed various political, methodological, and theoretical challenges, including multiple stakeholders, small sample sizes, difficulty establishing well-defined "treatment" and "control" groups, and questionable instrumentation. Finally, we discuss how participation in a highly dynamic, interactive evaluation process prompted the school district to engage in activities and to make decisions that ultimately served both the evaluation as well as the district as a whole. [More] Descriptors: Grade 5, Program Effectiveness, Kindergarten, Evaluation
(1978). Ethnicity, Values, and Language Policy in the United States, NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education. Within the bilingual education movement there is an analysis of the situation regarding "assimilation" and "cultural pluralism" in the U.S. that is a threat to bilingual education. Many assume that a new social situation has asserted itself whereby "cultural pluralism" has become a more powerful value than "assimilation." [More] Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingual Education, Cultural Pluralism, Ethnicity
(2002). Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English, Research in the Teaching of English. Presents annotations of 37 selected recent research in the teaching of English and related fields. Addresses bilingual/foreign language education, discourse processes, literacy, professional development, reading, teaching and learning of literature, teaching and learning of writing, and technology and literacy. Notes that most of the studies appeared during the six-month period from July through December 2001. Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bilingual Education, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Research
(1975). Law, Politics, and the Right to Be Taught English, School Review. Author focused on the question of whether Black English qualified as a second language and thereby for special instruction in the schools. He surveyed the ramifications of recent legislative funding of bilingual education. Descriptors: Black Students, Court Litigation, Federal Aid, Non English Speaking
(2011). Bilingual-Intercultural Education for Indigenous Children: The Case of Mexico in an Era of Globalization and Uprisings, Intercultural Education. The past 25 years have brought upheaval to the indigenous people of Mexico due to two opposing forces: modernization and globalization, on the one hand, and indigenous uprisings on the other. Suddenly, the topic of indigenous languages and education was brought into official discussions at the national level. This paper examines the tensions that emerge between the political discourses which emanate from within the indigenous communities and from the national government, and the actual implementation of educational policy models. The political-educational discourse shifted from Spanishization [castellanizacion], assimilation, and integration to bilingualism, interculturalism, and participation. We demonstrate that this shift was not a smooth transition, but rather an abrupt change that occurred in the early 1990s. Further, despite the shift to new discourses that respected indigenous languages and cultures, institutional factors have not been altered sufficiently to improve the conditions of indigenous education or their well-being in Mexico. Thus, ultimately, the new discourse of bilingualism and interculturalism in education serves to obfuscate the socio-political-economic work that must be done to truly allow the indigenous people to participate in the nation's political life. [More] Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Indigenous Populations, Global Approach, Foreign Countries
(1973). Bilingual ERIC Publications. The Bilingual Resource Center has begun to acquire on microfiche what it hopes will soon be an extensive collection of educational documents concerning bilingual education. This current bibliography of ERIC-processed documents on bilingual education gives an indication of the amount of resources still to be retrieved for the center and its users. The bibliography is divided into four sections: Introduction, documents of general interest, English as a second language, and Spanish speakers. Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education
(1979). Workshops to Improve Instruction. Six National Education Association regional conferences for 1980 are described. The conferences present information for teachers on such topics as testing, mainstreaming, stress, discipline, public policy, professional development, multicultural/bilingual education, and class size. [More] Descriptors: Discipline, Higher Education, Instructional Development, Multicultural Education
(1977). Biculturalism in the Primary School, Forum for the Discussion of New Trends in Education. Argues for capitalizing on linguistic and ethnic diversity and for bilingual education in the interest of enhancing the self esteem of children from minority groups. Argues against the concept of cultural deprivation and consequent compensatory strategies. Descriptors: Biculturalism, Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Development
(1975). Bilingual/Bicultural Education. Inequality in Education. Number 19, February 1975. The combined effect of the articles in this issue of "Inequality in Education" is to offer the reader a primer in bilingual/bicultural education. The articles which follow indicate that neither legislation nor court orders, correctly or incorrectly interpreted, can bring about effect change in this field on their own. What the bilingual movement needs at this point is the collective energy of advocates, parents, students, teachers, administrators, legislators, law enforcers, and other citizens. The research reported in the following articles was performed pursuant to a grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity: "Coming of Age in Bilingual/Bicultural Education: A Historical Perspective," Josue Gonzales; "Bilingual Education, Segregation, and a Third Alternative," Jose Cardenas; "Organizing for Bilingual Education: One Community's Experience," Aida Waserstein; "The Massachusetts Transitional Bilingual Education Act" Two Years After," Frederick P. Lewis; "The Massachusetts Transitional Bilingual Education Act" Problems in the Classroom and Possible Legislative Responses," Peter Roos and Emma Chavez Roos; "Training Teachers for Bilingual/Bicultural Education," Nelson Vieira; "Fox Point: The History of a Portuguses Bilingual Program," Laura Hersh Salganik; "Recent Legal Developments in Bilingual/Bicultural Education," Roger Rice. [More] Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Community Involvement, Educational History
(1975). Library Legislation Discovered, Library Trends. Funding for libraries may be available from agencies not usually associated with libraries for such purposes as bilingual education, service to older adults, and serving information needs in urban areas. Descriptors: Bilingualism, Federal Aid, Financial Support, Library Services
(1983). Bilingualism, Language Teaching and Learning, British Journal of Language Teaching. The experience of Wales and Canada with various techniques of bilingual education, and the application of first language acquisition principles to second language acquisition, are outlined and discussed with regard to the kind of communication skills sought. Descriptors: Bilingualism, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Educational History
(1974). Sapir John Haa Googwandak 2. This reader is intended for advanced language students in a bilingual education setting on the elementary level. It includes myths and ethnographic accounts of Athapascan life. An English translation is inserted. Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Languages, Athapascan Languages, Childrens Literature
(1982). The Condition of Bilingual Education in the Nation, 1982. A Report from the Secretary of Education to the President and the Congress. The report outlines the national need for bilingual education by providing estimates of the target group (distribution and characteristics of the language-minority, limited-English-speaking population), describes the need for bilingual education among native American and Alaskan native students and in Puerto Rico, and examines the need for teachers in elementary and secondary programs. A section on meeting the need for bilingual education outlines: (1) the services received by limited-English-speaking children in U.S. schools; (2) the activities of the Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Affairs; (3) other Department of Education programs directed toward limited-English-proficient children and adults; (4) services to American Indian and Alaskan native students in Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) schools, BIA-contract schools, and schools receiving BIA funds; and (5) state bilingual education programs. Appended materials include a partial listing of recent and current bilingual education research and a listing of services to limited-English-speakers under the Library Services and Construction Act in fiscal year 1980. [More] Descriptors: Agency Role, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Bilingual Education