Forked Tongue

Today children who are not fluent in English legal and illegal immigrants, refugees, and native born are the fastest growing portion of our population, accounting for more than half the children in classrooms in many city schools

Rosalie Porter

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, CulturalPluralism, and Nationhood; 7: Political Extremes Intensify the Language Debate; 8: Decisions for the Future; Epilogue