| Description |
xxxvi, 249 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Zeynep F. Beykont -- pt. 1. Educational reforms and language minority students -- High stakes of high-stakes testing / Miren Uriarte -- Revealing illusions of educational progress : Texas high-stakes tests and minority student performance / Walt Haney -- Quest for quality : providing qualified teachers for California's English learners / Julie Maxwell-Jolly, Patricia Gandara -- pt. 2. Successful teaching across language difference -- "Remember I said" : Cambodian students' second language literacy development in a mainstream classroom / Nancy H. Hornberger -- Teaching bilingual students in mainstream classrooms / Maria Estela Brisk, Mary Dawson, Millicent Hartgering, Elizabeth MacDonald, Lucinda Zehr -- Agents of literacy change : working with Somali students in an urban middle school / Audrey A. Friedman -- Connecting classroom and community through the arts and oral narrative / Berta Rosa Berriz -- pt. 3. Preparing teachers to teach across language difference -- Creating an equal playing field : teachers as advocates, border crossers, and cultural brokers / Lilia I. Bartolome -- What we would have liked to know : preservice teachers' perspectives on effective teacher preparation / Audrey A. Friedman -- "You can't step on someone else's words" : preparing all teachers to teach language minority students / Meg Gebhard, Theresa Austin, Sonia Nieto, Jerri Willett. |
| Subject |
Linguistic minorities -- Education.
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Children of minorities -- Education.
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Language and education.
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| Added Author |
Beykont, Zeynep F.
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| ISBN |
1891792032 |
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