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Justifying Educational Language Rights
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May, Stephen – Review of Research in Education, 2014
The author of this chapter observes that post-9/11 there has been a rapid and significant retrenchment of multiculturalism as public policy, particularly within education. This apparent retrenchment of multiculturalism as public policy has been bolstered by parallel arguments for a more "cosmopolitan" approach to education within an…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Language Minorities
Diversity, Super-Diversity, and Monolingual Language Ideology in the United States: Tolerance or Intolerance?
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Wiley, Terrence G. – Review of Research in Education, 2014
Each new demographic shift and economic or social change bring seemingly new issues into popular and political focus--questions, debates, and policies about the role of language in education and society and the recent claims that transnational migrations and globalization are resulting in unprecedented forms of ethnolinguisic…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Language Attitudes, Political Influences, Language Role
U.S. Spanish and Education: Global and Local Intersections
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García, Ofelia – Review of Research in Education, 2014
The author of this chapter argues that the failure of Spanish language education policies in the United States to educate both Latinos and non-Latinos has to do with the clash between three positions--(a) the English language, characterized by U.S. educational authorities as the unique and powerful lingua franca; (b) the Spanish language, as…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Educational Policy, Hispanic American Students