The power of culture : teaching across language difference /
edited by Zeynep F. Beykont.
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard Education Pub. Group, c2002.
- xxxvi, 249 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Educational reforms and language minority students -- The high stakes of high-stakes testing / Revealing illusions of educational progress: Texas high-stakes tests and minority student performance / A quest for quality: providing qualified teachers for California's English learners / "Remember I said": Cambodian students' second language literacy development in a mainstream classroom / Teaching bilingual students in mainstream classrooms / Agents of literacy change: working with Somali students in an urban middle school / Connecting classroom and community through the arts and oral narrative / Creating an equal playing field: teachers as advocates, border crossers, and cultural brokers / What we would have liked to know: preservice teachers' perspectives on effective teacher preparation / "You can't step on someone else's words": preparing all teachers to teach language minority students / Zeynep F. Beykont -- Miren Uriarte -- Walt Haney -- Julie Maxwell-Jolly, Patricia Gâandara -- Nancy H. Hornberger -- Marâia Estela Brisk, Mary Dawson, Millicent Hartgering, Elizabeth MacDonald, Lucinda Zehr -- Audrey A. Friedman -- Berta Rosa Berriz -- Lilia I. Bartolomâe -- Audrey A. Friedman -- Meg Gebhard, Theresa Austin, Sonia Nieto, Jerri Willett. Introduction / pt. 1. pt. 2. Successful teaching across language difference -- pt. 3. Preparing teachers to teach across language difference --
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Linguistic minorities--Education--United States. Children of minorities--Education--United States. Language and education--United States. Minorites linguistiques--Education--Etats-Unis. Enfants issus des minorites--Education--Etats-Unis. Langage et education--Etats-Unis.