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