| Jan. 3 |
How things work: Policy,
practice, and research in the education of LEP students. |
| Jan. 11 |
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
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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.
How would you tailor your memo differently depending on your perceived
receptivity of the school board and administration to the needs of LEP
students?
Click here for write-ups (PDF format)
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| Jan. 18 |
Implementation of a theory: Florida consent decree.
BE 62-100, 225-241.
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) et al. v. State Board
of Education Consent Decree, United States District Court for the Southern
District of Florida, August 14, 1990.
Florida
Department of Education Office of Multicultural Student Language Education
(OMSLE) STATISTICS.
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| Jan. 25 |
Influence of standards-based reform: 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.
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| Feb. 1 |
Systematic confusion? The case of California.
BE 242-261.
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?
Debate on the Unz initiative.
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| Feb. 8 |
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.
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| Feb. 15 |
Group Poster Sessions
Assignment
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| Feb. 22 |
School improvement.
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.
Tikunoff,
W. J. Applying Significant Bilingual Instructional Features
in the Classroom. National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education.
Lucas,
T. Applying Elements of Effective Secondary Schooling for Language
Minority Students: A Tool for Reflection And Stimulus to Change. National
Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education.
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| Feb. 29 |
Language acquisition.
NRC 11-39, BE
117-137.
Crawford,
J. 1997. Best Evidence: Research Foundations of the Bilingual
Education Act. Washington, DC: National Clearinghouse for
Bilingual Education
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).
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| Mar. 7 |
Teacher education and professional development.
Anstom,
K. (1999) Preparing Secondary Education Teachers to Work with English
Language Learners: MATHEMATICS. NCBE Resource Collection Series, No.
14.
Anstrom,
K. Preparing Secondary Education Teachers to Work with English Language
Learners: SOCIAL STUDIES. NCBE Resource Collection Series, No. 13, June
1999.
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