Bilingual Research Journal back issues from January 1998:
Title VII ESEA: The ambivalence of language policy in the United States
Jan 01, 1998; ... The Bilingual Education Act (Title VII of the amended Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965) was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in January of 1969. The day after he signed the law the Washington Post editorialized that, unbeknownst to the vast majority of the citizenry, ...
The Bilingual Education Act: Language minority students and equal educational opportunity
Jan 01, 1998; ... Abstract This paper traces the Bilingual Education Act (BEA) from its inception in 1968 through its most recent reauthorization in 1994 as the primary federal legislative effort to provide equal educational opportunity to language minority students. Federal legislative initiatives which ...
A longitudinal model for interpreting thirty years of bilingual education research
Jan 01, 1998; ... Abstract This article summarizes the results from the re-analysis of two recent bilingual education studies: Greene's (1998) meta-analysis and Thomas and Collier's (1997) longitudinal study. First , the article presents the ten main criteria identified over the past three decades by the ...
Moral dimensions of bilingual education
Jan 01, 1998; ... Abstract The complexities involved in equitably educating language minority students raise ethical issues and involve the moral dimensions of teaching in a diverse democracy. Acknowledging the moral dimensions of bilingual education may encourage policy makers and practitioners to ...
A 1999 Neuyorquina Horacio Alger non story
Jan 01, 1998; ... Abstract This autobiographical narrative in code-switching format reflects the social and educational impact of bilingualism and bilingual education on the author. It also aims to redefine the American dream to more adequately reflect the contemporary multicultural character of a ...
From LEP to academic: Reflections on my twenty years in Title VII
Jan 01, 1998; ... Abstract The genesis of Title VII brought about significant changes in how children from diverse language backgrounds were perceived and acknowledged by the American educational system. Prior to Title VII, linguistically diverse children were basically neglected by a system narrowly ...
Over thirty years of language-in-education policy and planning: Potter Thomas Bilingual School in Philadelphia
Jan 01, 1998; ... Abstract Changes in politics, the economy, demographics, and local leadership all led to the establishment of the Potter Thomas Bilingual School in Philadelphia in 1969. This paper examines the school's history and how it has created, implemented, and sustained various language policies ...
Through the golden door: Educational approaches for immigrant adolescents with limited schooling
Jan 01, 1998; ... Mace-Matluck, B., Alexander-Kasparik, R, & Queen, R. ( 1998). Through the golden door: Educational approaches for immigrant adolescents with limited schooling. (152 pages) Reviewed by Jim Cummins, University of Toronto This timely volume addresses one of the most urgent ...
A minimalist approach to intrasentential code switching
Jan 01, 1998; ... Macswan, J. (1999). A minimalist approach to intrasentential code switching. New York: Garland Publishing. (329 pages) Reviewed by Terrence G. Wiley California Polytechnic University, Pomona As its title suggests, MacSwan's study is a rigorous linguistic work ...