Reviews the role of bilingual education litigation in the formation of educational equity policy. Assesses the nature and role of research on minority group language achievement. Lists fourteen suggestions for future research needed in bilingual education. (MD)

Since the early 1970s the courts, the Federal Government, local governments, and school systems have wrestled with the difficulties that arise as race desegregation is implemented in school systems with substantial enrollments of national origin minority (NOM) students. Desegregating school systems generally produce plans to guide racial…