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Introduction / Zeynep F. Beykont -- pt. 1. Educational reforms and language minority students -- The high stakes of high-stakes testing / Miren Uriarte -- Revealing illusions of educational progress: Texas high-stakes tests and minority student performance / Walt Haney -- A quest for quality: providing qualified teachers for California's English learners / Julie Maxwell-Jolly, Patricia Gâandara -- pt. 2. Successful teaching across language difference -- "Remember I said": Cambodian students' second language literacy development in a mainstream classroom / Nancy H. Hornberger -- Teaching bilingual students in mainstream classrooms / Marâia Estela Brisk, Mary Dawson, Millicent Hartgering, Elizabeth MacDonald, Lucinda Zehr -- Agents of literacy change: working with Somali students in an urban middle school / Audrey A. Friedman -- Connecting classroom and community through the arts and oral narrative / Berta Rosa Berriz -- pt. 3. Preparing teachers to teach across language difference -- Creating an equal playing field: teachers as advocates, border crossers, and cultural brokers / Lilia I. Bartolomâe -- What we would have liked to know: preservice teachers' perspectives on effective teacher preparation / Audrey A. Friedman -- "You can't step on someone else's words": preparing all teachers to teach language minority students / Meg Gebhard, Theresa Austin, Sonia Nieto, Jerri Willett.