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Advocating for English learners :

(Number (ISBN

1847690742

(Number (ISBN

6611878505

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9781847690746

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9786611878504

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1847690726

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1847690734

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9781847690722

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9781847690739

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b798851

Title Proper

Advocating for English learners :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

selected essays /

First Statement of Responsibility

James Crawford.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Buffalo :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Multilingual Matters,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2008.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (vi, 193 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations

Series Title

Bilingual education and bilingualism ;

Volume Designation

69

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-187) and index.

Text of Note

Introduction -- Making sense of Census 2000 -- Monolingual and proud of it -- Heritage languages in America : tapping a 'hidden' resource -- Plus ça change -- Concern or intolerance : what's driving the anti-bilingual campaign? -- The bilingual education story : why can't the news media get it right? -- Ten common fallacies about bilingual education -- Agenda for inaction -- 'Accountability' vs. science in the bilingual education debate -- Hard sell : why is bilingual education so unpopular with the American public? -- Has two-way been oversold? -- Surviving the English-only assault : public attitudes and the future of language education -- Official English legislation : bad for civil rights, bad for America's interests, and even bad for English -- The Bilingual Education Act, 1968-2002 : an obituary -- No child left behind : misguided approach to school accountability for English language learners -- A diminished vision of civil rights -- The decline of bilingual education in the USA : how to reverse a troubling trend? -- Loose ends in a tattered fabric : the inconsistency of language rights in the USA.

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Text of Note

A collection of 18 essays addressing the policy and politics of educating English language learners. It includes subjects such as demographic change and its educational implications, American responses to language diversity, public controversies over bilingual education, and high-stakes testing and its impact on English language learners.

Text of Note

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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Ingram Content Group

Stock Number

31949781847690746

Title

Advocating for English learners.

International Standard Book Number

1847690734

Education-- Political aspects-- United States.

Education, Bilingual-- United States.

English language-- Study and teaching-- Foreign speakers.

Education-- Political aspects.

Education, Bilingual.

Education.

English language-- Study and teaching-- Foreign speakers.

Enseignement des langues.

Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY-- English as a Second Language.

LANGUAGE TEACHING & LEARNING (OTHER THAN ELT)

Langues étrangères.

Etats-Unis d'Amérique.

United States.

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Edition

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Book number

Crawford, James,1949-

Date of Transaction

20201207112214.0

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[Book]

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