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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
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Lo Bianco, Joseph – Review of Research in Education, 2014
The content of the present issue of "Review of Research in Education" (RRE) is timely and important, allowing considered, multiperspectival active reflection, what the author calls cerebration, on language diversity as well as a call for concerted action for linking better the findings of research to the imperatives of teaching. In…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Access to Education, Academic Achievement, Equal Education
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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
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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
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Powers, Jeanne M. – Review of Research in Education, 2014
In this chapter, the author reviews the legal trajectory of language rights in public schooling in the United States and how language has been intertwined with other policy issues in court cases aimed at expanding access and equity for minority students: desegregation and school finance. Most of these cases originated in the Southwestern United…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Court Litigation, Access to Education, Equal Education
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Wiley, Terrence G.; Garcia, David R.; Danzig, Arnold B.; Stigler, Monica L. – Review of Research in Education, 2014
"Review of Research in Education: Vol. 38, Language Policy, Politics, and Diversity in Education" explores the role of educational language policies in promoting education as a human right. There are an estimated nearly 7,000 living languages in the world. Yet, despite the extent of language diversity, only a small number of the…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Second Languages, Civil Rights, Educational Policy