Volume 17, Issue 3/4. 1986

Themes:

bilingual education; segregation; World War I; English as a Second Language (ESL); assimilation; diversity; equity; African American Vernacular English (AAVE); model minority

Contributors, Consultants, and Reviewers:

Sonia Nieto, Luis Reyes, Jim Cummins, Teodora Tastaman, Mai Nguyen-Huynh, Carole Berotte Joseph, Joseph Allen McCachren, Diane Caballero, Deborah Wei, Arnoldo Torres, Luis Fuentes, Tony Baez, Alan Jay Rom, Peggy Shen, Valerie Ooka Pang, Emily Strauss Watson, Emily Leinster, Sasha Leinster, Lillian Yeh, Daphne Muse, Rudine Sims, Judy Rogers, Suzi Wizowaty, Doris Seale, Patricia B. Campbell, Michael E. Grafton, Tracy Dalton

Materials Reviewed:

The War Between the Classes by Gloria D. Miklowitz. Amazon / WorldCat
The Elephant Man by Frederick Drimmer. Amazon / WorldCat
Living in Two Worlds by Maxine Rosenberg. Amazon / WorldCat
Linking Our Lives: Chinese American Women of Los Angeles by Chinese Historical Society of Southern California. Amazon / WorldCat
Junius Over Far by Virginia Hamilton. Amazon / WorldCat
On Fire by Ouida Sebestyen. Amazon / WorldCat
Jamaica's Find by Juanita Havill. Amazon / WorldCat
In the Attic by Hiawyn Oram. Amazon / WorldCat
Night Journey by Kathryn Lasky. Amazon / WorldCat
Who Speaks for Wolf: A Native American Learning Story by Paula Spencer. Amazon / WorldCat
What Works: Research about Teaching and Learning by William J. Bennett. Amazon / WorldCat
Including All of Us: An Early Childhood Curriculum About Disability by Merle Froschl, Linda Colon, Ellen Rubin, and Barbara Sprung. Amazon / WorldCat
Are You Still My Mother? Are You Still My Family? by Gloria Guss Back. Amazon / WorldCat
Heart Politics by Fran Peavey. Amazon / WorldCat

Materials Highlighted:

The Best of Two Worlds: Bilingual-Bicultural Education in the U. S. by Diego Castellanos and Pamela Leggio-Castellanos
Red, White, and Black: Peoples of Early America by Gary Nash
Teaching Strategies for Ethnic Studies by James A. Banks
Transitional Bilingual Education in Massachusetts: A Preliminary Study of its Effectiveness by Catherine E. Walsh and Eduardo B. Carballo
Bilingual Education of Children: The St. Lambert Experiment by Wallace E. Lambert and G. Richard Tucker
Bilingualism and Special Education: Issues in Assessment and Pedagogy by J. Cummins
Students from Homes in Which English is not the Dominant Language: Who Are They and How Well Do They Read by National Assessment of Educational Progress
Minority Education and Caste by J. U. Ogbu
Bilingual Education: An International Sociological Perspective by J. Fishman
Bilingual Education: Theories and Issues by C. B. Paulston
Labelling the Mentally Retarded by J. Mercer
Effectiveness of Bilingual Education: A Review of the Literature by K. A. Baker and A. A. de Kanter
The Rock Point Experience: A Longitudinal Study of a Navajo School by P. Rosier and W. Holm
Haiti Today and Tomorrow: An Interdisciplinary Study by Valdman and Foster, eds.
The Status of Puerto Ricans in the United States by the National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights
Speaking Out About Bilingual Education, A Report on the Testimony Presented at the Community Speak-Out on Bilingual Education
Stability and Change in Human Characteristics by B. S. Bloom
Parenting in a Multicultural Society by M. Fantini and R. Cardenas
O. H. B. The Principals by M. Gittell
Intelligence and Experience by J. McV Hunt
Community Parity in Federally Funded Programs by Recruitment Leadership and Training Institute
Citizen Organizations: Increasing Client Control over Services by R. K. Yin
Guidelines for the Preparation and Certification of Teachers of Bilingual/Bicultural Education by Center for Applied Linguistics
Hagamos Caminos series by Alma Flor Ada and Maria del Pilar
Bilingual Education: A Sourcebook by Alba N. Ambert
A Bilingual-Bicultural Experience: An Annotated Bibliography 1936-1982 by Octavio A. Ballesteros
Bilingualism and Minority-Language Children by Jim Cummins
Bilingual Education for Hispanic Students by Joshua A. Fishman and Gary D. Keller, eds.
Life with Two Languages by Francois Grosjean
Mirror of Language: The Debate on Bilingualism by Kenji Hakuta
Beyond Language: Social and Cultural Factors in Schooling Language Minority Students by Office of Bilingual Education, California State Department of Education
Schooling and Language Minority Students by Office of Bilingual Education, California State Department of Education
Bilingual and ESL Classrooms: Teaching in Multicultural Contexts by Carlos Ovando and Virginia P. Collier
Bilingualism Through Schooling: Cross-Cultural Education for Minority and Majority Students by Arnulfo G. Ramírez
A Handbook of Bilingual Education by Muriel R. Saville and Rudolph C. Troike
Research Evidence for the Effectiveness of Bilingual Education by Rudolph C. Troike
Bilingual Multicultural Education and the Professional: From Theory to Practice by Henry T. Trueba and Carol Barnett-Mizrahi, eds.
Words By Heart by Ouida Sebestyen
Great North American Indians by Frederick Dockstader
God is Red by Vine Deloria, Jr.
Young, Gay, and Proud by Don Romesburg

Keywords:

Geraldine L. Wilson, bilingual, Native American, Latino, Spanish, Mexico, Japanese, Asian, segregation, Chinese, World War I, nationalism, German, English as a Second Language (ESL), Puerto Rican, African American, Haitian Creole, assimilation, Kenji Hakuta, Jim Cummins, transitional, immersion, Mexican American, French, Canada, G. Richard Tucker, Caribbean, discrimination, Latino, Cuban, North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, research, S. R. A. Technologies Inc., National Association for Bilingual Education, diversity, equity, Puerto Rican, Black English, African American Vernacular English (AAVE); Martin Luther King v. Ann Arbor Schools, Charles W. Joiner, Creole, Haiti, Cape Verde, literacy, adult education, self-esteem, Portuguese, imperialism, Americanization, racism, ASPIRA, Asian American, conservative, activism, Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, Puerto Rican Coalition, ASPIRA Consent Decree, model minority, Southeast Asian, mental illness, bicultural, English-only, immigration, English Language Amendment (ELA), S. I. Hayakawa, Stanley Diamond, World War I, Cold War, McCarthyism, boycott, Phil Donahue show, racial slurs, Title I, Title VII, Civil Rights, National Assessment of Educational Progress, cultural diversity, Recruitment Leadership and Training Institute, Parent Advisory Councils (PACs), Ocean-Hill Brownsville, District I, Crystal City, Palo Alto, national origin minority (NOM), desegregation, equity, United States v. Texas Education Agency, identifiable ethnic language minority, vocational schools, technical schools, Lau v. Nichols, Supreme Court, Lao, Castaneda v. Pickard, Keyes v. School District No. 1, evaluation criteria, cultural sensitivity, Bilingual Education Law, Chicano, Center for Applied Linguistics, ASPIRA of America, Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL), Center for Language Education and Research (CLEAR), Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos, Evaluation Dissemination and Assessment Center (DAC), Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE), National Association for Vietnamese American Education (NAVAE), National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education (NCBE), National Council of La Raza, National Indian Bilingual Center, Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs (OBEMLA); The Puerto Rican/Latino Education Roundtable, Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc., Refugee Materials Center, Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Title VII Network