00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773861693368 Buklod 20090303135556.0 j|||||||||||||| | ta 170913s2008 enka rb |||1 u|eng d 9781847690722 (pbk : alk. paper) (iLib)UPBAG-00004956565 BC-56969 Php1,597.00 DLC BAG rda eng LC 3731 C73 Crawford, James 1949- author. Advocating for English learners selected essays James Crawford. Clevedon Multilingual Matters Ltd ©2008. vi, 193 pages illustrations 21 cm Bilingual education and bilingualism 69 Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-187) and index. 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. Education, Bilingual United States. English language Study and teaching Foreign speakers. Education Political aspects United States. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN LC 3731 C73 Book