Presents overview of public policy, legislation, and rulings affecting education of ethnically diverse children in American schools. Points out that by examining this situation in other societies we gain new insights on American problems. (Author/BK)

Traces the political and social factors (including Black nationalism) that have influenced Federal policy regarding bilingual education since the mid 1960s. Holds that current policy is ethnocentric and robs schools of their traditional integrative function. (GC)

Reflecting on the first decade of the "Title VII Era", the article discusses some of the accomplishments in the areas of educational policy, research and practice, language assessment, school desegregation, and language instruction. (NQ)

Bilingual education programs and policies in three countries with sizable minorities, Sweden, Australia, and the Federal Republic of Germany, are examined in order to gauge both the extent to which children with limited proficiency in the dominant language are in integrated classrooms and the degree of their social integration. First, the…

This document discusses research findings related to the question of how long language minority students need special services such as English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) courses or bilingual education before they develop oral and academic English proficiency. It draws conclusions based on a study of four different school districts, two in…

Presents a framework of biliteracy development focusing on the following three continua: (1) the macro-micro continuum of policy; (2) the monolingual-bilingual continuum; and (3) the oral-literate continuum. These are discussed in the contexts of Cambodian and Puerto Rican students in two public elementary schools in Philadelphia. (SLD)

This report evaluates the bilingual education policy of ten states (Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, and Texas), in which 86 percent of the nation's limited-English-proficient (LEP) students reside. The report answers frequently-asked questions about bilingual education, and…

There are some four million children of immigrants in nursery, primary, secondary, and vocational schools in the European Community. In particular the children of migrant workers experience significant educational difficulties. They often face an unfamiliar educational system and are handicapped by a lack of knowledge of the host country's…

This report is one of three volumes that describe the second phase of a study that examined the implementation of four federal change agent programs related to education. Phase 2 of the study focused on what happens to local projects in the two largest change agent programs--ESEA Title III and ESEA Title VII--when federal funding stops. This…

An examination of seminal studies in sociolinguistics and bilingualism serves as a basis for setting the parameters for the language planning response to the Lau decision. The studies discussed are primarily those of W. E. Lambert and the Unesco report, "The Use of Vernacular Languages in Education..." (MS)

lig appears to provide more useful information and use a more relevant body of literature, representing an advance over earlier studies. (SLD)

This article discusses bilingual education for Mexican-Americans as it relates to the Spanish-Catalan situation in Spain. (Text is in Spanish.) (CLK)

Describes what has happened and what may happen to the bilingual education movement. Explains how Congress, the courts, State governments, and education associations are wrestling with the problem. (Author/DN)

Presidential address presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, Mexico City, Mexico, August 10, 1973. (SK)