State education in Great Britain is monolingual. With increases in immigration and the proliferation of bilingual non-state schools, the desire of minority groups to be educated bilingually is growing apparent. The author of this article begins with a discussion of the relative merits of bilingualism by reviewing the research that has endorsed…

This paper examines the effect of the recent European Union (EU) enlargement on minority language policies in the Baltic states, and in particular in Latvia and Estonia. I first look at the so-called Copenhagen political criteria conditioning EU accession and at the European Commission's monitoring system for assessing applicant countries'…

This report consists of two sets of criteria developed by the NEA Task Force on bilingual/multicultural education. The criteria presented are for: (1) effective bilingual/multicultural education programs, and (2) state legislation which establishes such programs. The first set of criteria includes factors such as state and federal laws, student…