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"We Live in the Age of Choice": School Administrators, School Choice Policies, and the Shaping of Dual Language Bilingual Education
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Bernstein, Katie A.; Alvarez, Adriana; Chaparro, Sofía; Henderson, Kathryn I. – Language Policy, 2021
In the past 20 years, both school choice policies and dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs have proliferated across the US. This project examines the intersection of the two trends, examining how school choice policies have shaped DLBE at the district, school, and program level, through the eyes of 22 public school administrators in…
Descriptors: School Choice, Neoliberalism, Administrator Attitudes, Equal Education
"Now It's All Upper-Class Parents Who Are Checking out Schools": Gentrification as Coloniality in the Enactment of Two-Way Bilingual Education Policies
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Dorner, Lisa M.; Cervantes-Soon, Claudia G.; Heiman, Daniel; Palmer, Deborah – Language Policy, 2021
Bilingual education as a whole has been gentrifying, as more privileged students replace Transnational Language Learners (TLLs) in bilingual education spaces and policies (Valdez et al. in Educ Policy 30(6):849-883, 2016. https://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2102/10.1177/0895904814556750). We argue this is an extension of coloniality (Mignolo in Local histories/global…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Foreign Policy, Bilingual Education Programs, Second Language Learning
Team Teaching among Mixed Messages: Implementing Two-Way Dual Language Bilingual Education at Third Grade in Texas
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Palmer, Deborah; Henderson, Kathryn; Wall, Dorothy; Zúñiga, Christian E.; Berthelsen, Stefan – Language Policy, 2016
This article documents and interrogates top-down district-wide implementation of a two-way dual language bilingual education (DLBE) program in a large urban district. We carried out a language policy ethnography to explore the way two schools' teams of third grade teachers worked together to negotiate the intersection of DLBE implementation and…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Language Planning, Teacher Collaboration, Faculty Development
Language-in-Healthcare Policy, Interaction Patterns, and Unequal Care on the U.S.-Mexico Border
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Martinez, Glenn – Language Policy, 2008
This paper examines the implementation of language-in-healthcare policy in a highly bilingual, medically stressed border region of south Texas. In its current form, federal language-in-healthcare policy unevenly impacts different geographic regions. Healthcare markets along the U.S.-Mexico border are particularly taxed by the recent language…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Patients, Foreign Countries, Limited English Speaking
A Bilingual Education for a Monolingual Test? The Pressure to Prepare for TAKS and Its Influence on Choices for Language of Instruction in Texas Elementary Bilingual Classrooms
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Palmer, Deborah; Lynch, Anissa Wicktor – Language Policy, 2008
A tension exists for teachers in Texas bilingual third and fifth grade classrooms between state and local bilingual education policy, which encourages them to transition students gradually from Spanish into English instruction while providing bilingual support; and state and federal accountability policy, which requires them to choose a single…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Language of Instruction, Monolingualism, Elementary School Students