Title: Forked tongue : the politics of bilingual education /
Authors: Porter, Rosalie Pedalino, 1931-
Publisher: Basic Books,
Year: 1990
Subjects: Education, Bilingual United States; Linguistic minorities Education United States.
Abstract: An inside account of how the 21 year old experiment in bilingualeducation has failed our language-minority children--and why.
Contents: Introduction: The bilingual controversy -- 1. Firsthand experience in educating language minorities -- 2. Confronting the political power of the bilingual bureaucracy -- 3. Reassessing the assumptions underlying twenty years of bilingual education -- 4. Learning from other multilingual societies -- 5. The fresh breeze of innovation in U.S. alternative programs -- 6. Beyond bilingual education : language policy, cultural pluralism, and nationhood -- 7. Political extremes intensify the language debate -- 8. Decisions for the future.