Lau v. Nichols and other federal court decisions.

BE 39-100.

Memorandum re: Identification of Discrimination and Denial of Services on the Basis of National Origin. U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office for Civil Rights, May 25, 1970.

Lau v. Nichols

Task Force Findings Specifying Remedies Available for Eliminating Past Educational Practices Ruled Unlawful under Lau v. Nichols.U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office for Civil Rights.

Policy Update on Schools' Obligations Toward National Origin Minority Students with Limited-English Proficiency (LEP students). U. S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, Memorandum from Michael Williams to OCR Senior Staff, Sept. 27, 1991.

The Office of Civil Rights' Title VI Language Minority Compliance Procedures. U. S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, April 6, 1990.

Link to Full NRC report, see pages 363-365 for early history of bilingual education.
Overhead from lecture

In-class exercise. Your local school district has had a recent infusion of immigrants from Bosnia, and many students whose native language is Serbo-Croatian and have limited proficiency in English are in several schools. Write a letter to your school superintendent outlining the district's responsibilities under Federal law to educate these students.

Texas.

Massell, D., Kirst, M. & Hoppe, M. (1997). Persistence and Change: Standards-Based Reform in Nine States. Univ. of Pennsylvania: Consortium for Policy Research in Education.

Lachat, M.A. (1999) Standards, Equity and Cultural Diversity. Northeast and Islands Regional Laboratory at Brown University.

Expanding the Scope of the Texas Public School Accountability System. Texas Education Agency, Policy Research Report #9.

Academic Achievement of Elementary Students With Limited English Proficiency in Texas Public Schools Texas Education Agency, Policy Research Report #10.

Schrag, Peter (2000). Too Good to Be True. American Prospect, January, 2000.

Peter Schmidt, Texas Test Required for High-School Graduation Does Not Discriminate, Judge Rules. Monday, Chronicle of Higher Education, January 10, 2000.

GI Forum et al v. Texas. U. S. District Court, Western District of Texas, San Antonio Division. Civil Action No. SA-97-CA-1278-EP. Jan. 7, 2000.

High Stakes Testing for Tracking, Promotion, and Graduation. Jay P. Heubert and Robert M. Hauser, Editors. National Research Council, 1999. Chapter 9, English Language Learners

Questions for small group discussion in class.

Overhead from class: Summary of OCR Memoranda on District Obligations for English Language Learners

California.

BE 242-261.

Browse California Department of Education website.   Resources for English Learners: California Department of Education (Department) Web page that focuses on the education of English learners

Browse Prop 227 materials in James Crawford’s website
Browse Ron Unz’s website 

Sekhon, N. A birthright rearticulated: The politics of bilingual education. NYU Law Review, 74:1407.

Porter, Rosalie Pedalino.  The Case Against Bilingual Education: Why even Latino parents are rejecting a program designed for their children's benefit. Amherst, MA:  READ Institute.

Questions that may be raised by Proposition 227. Memorandum, U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights. June 10, 1998.

Hakuta, K. What legitimate inferences can be made from the 1999 release of SAT-9 scores with respect to the impact of Proposition 227 on the performance of LEP students?

Program Evaluation Research.

BE 102-116; NRC 55-71
Greene, J. P. A Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of Bilingual Education.  University of Texas: The Tomas Rivera Policy Institute 

Thomas, W. & Collier, V. School Effectiveness for Language Minority Students.  NCBE Resource Collection Series, No. 9, December 1997

Rossell, C. H. Mystery on the Bilingual Express: A Critique of the Thomas and Collier Study. The READ Institute. 

Mary T. Cazabon, Elena Nicoladis, and Wallace E. Lambert (1998). Becoming Bilingual in the Amigos Two-Way Immersion Program. University of California, Santa Cruz, CREDE.

Organizing the Course Project: Grant Application Concept for Title VII.

Assignment for proposal preparation

Title VII Bilingual Education: Program Development and Implementation Grants.

See model concept paper from last year (by Jane Murphy, Sheldon Piumarta, and Amelia Zimmermann-Wolff)

Language Acquisition Research.

NRC 11-39, BE 117-137.

Hakuta, K., Goto Butler, Y. & Witt, D. How Long Does It Take English Language Learners to Attain Proficiency? Paper written for the University of California Linguistic Minority Research Insititute (LMRI).

Program design for English language learners in middle and high schools: a look at California and other selected states.

Walqui, A. Second language learning and the schooling of immigrant adolescents. In: Access and Engagement. Program design and instructional approaches for immigrant students in secondary schools. Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics and Delta Systems.

School Effectiveness Research

NRC 73-86. 
Berman, P., Minicucci, C., McLaughlin, B., Nelson, B. & Woodworth, K School Reform and Student Diversity:  Case Studies of Exemplary Practices for LEP Students. 

Walqui, A. International High School, Long Island, New York: A Focus on Instructional Practices and Curriculum Change.

Reading instructions for May 16 class.

The development of professional expertise for teachers of English language learners: tensions and promises along the continuum.

Walqui, A. Working on the Development of Teachers' Understanding to Work with English Language Learners. To appear in: Scaffolding for The Development of Expertise in Working with English Language Learners. San Diego County Office of Education.

TBA

Texas-California Standards Based Reform Website assignments

Course Project due at 5:00 PM.