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January 2006
Dual Standards
When I came to California, I could not understand how anybody could be against bilingual education. As a child, I had lived in Canada where they experimented at my school with total...
February 2006
Telling the “Truthiness”
Last month, the American Dialect Society announced that the winner for 2005 in its 16th Annual Words of the Year vote was "truthiness," which refers to the quality of preferring...
March 2006
Squaring the Circle
Last month saw the publication of a long-awaited report on the effects of the implementation of Proposition 227 on English language learners in California (see p.13). The purpose of the five-year...
April 2006
Into the FOLD
The recent infighting amongst board members and staff at the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE — see NEWS, page 10) could not have come at a worse time. Last month,...
The ABC of Teaching Diverse Learners
Vicky Giouroukakis and Andrea Honigsfeld present their A-Z of culturally and linguistically responsive practices
As the impending Common Core State Standards (CCSS) seem sure to entail even more assessment in most states, there are...
A Tribute to Teachers
Richard Lederer honors the academic profession with this excerpt of his upcoming book, A Tribute to Teachers
During the presidency of Dwight David Eisenhower, James Michener, author of Hawaii, The Source, and other mega-sellers,...
Satisfying the Demand for Teachers
Zulmaris Diaz and Lakshmi Mahadevan show how their research on the need to recruit and retain language educators in Texas applies nationwide
The student population in the U.S. is rapidly changing; in 2004-2005, approximately...
Blurring the Line between Language and Culture
Fatiha Guessabi argues that culture is a language in itself
Language always carries meanings and references beyond itself: The meanings of a particular language represent the culture of a particular social group. To interact with...
Using Personal Literacy Profiles as Catalysts
Kayla Palmateer, Ashley Fair, Stephanie Grant, April Passi, and Jan Buley share how reflecting on our own literacy journeys reveals new teaching perspectives
The Personal Literacy Profile Project is an invitation for all of...
May 2011
From the Mouths of Hawks
“As Americans we have access to a vast array of resources. Perhaps the most important first step we can take, as part of a National Strategy, is to identify which...
