Official English Legislation: Bad for Civil Rights, Bad for America’s Interests, and Even Bad for English

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Making Sense of Census 2000 10
5. Monolingual and Proud of It 17
6. Heritage Languages in America: Tapping a ‘Hidden’ Resource 21
7. Plus ça Change ... 29
8. Concern or Intolerance: What’s Driving the Anti-Bilingual Campaign? 31
9. The Bilingual Education Story: Why Can’t the News Media Get It Right? 36
10. Ten Common Fallacies about Bilingual Education 51
11. Agenda for Inaction 57
12. ‘Accountability’ vs. Science in the Bilingual Education Debate 63
13. Hard Sell: Why is Bilingual Education so Unpopular with the American Public? 74
14. Has Two-Way Been Oversold? 98
15. Surviving the English-Only Assault: Public Attitudes and the Future of Language Education 101
16. Official English Legislation: Bad for Civil Rights, Bad for America’s Interests, and Even Bad for English 116
17. The Bilingual Education Act, 1968–2002: An Obituary 124
18. No Child Left Behind: Misguided Approach to School Accountability for English Language Learners 128
19. A Diminished Vision of Civil Rights 139
20. The Decline of Bilingual Education in the USA: How to Reverse a Troubling Trend? 144
21. Loose Ends in a Tattered Fabric: The Inconsistency of Language Rights in the USA 150
22. References 175
23. Index 188