Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1 Immigrant Education—The Program and Policy Landscape
2 Recent Immigrant and ELL Students and Their Schools
3 School Achievement and Resources: The Differing Experiences of Recent Immigrant and ELL Students
4 Recent Immigrant Challenges and Public School Responses
5 The Debate over Language Acquisition: Caught between "Bilingual" Education and English Immersion
6 Educator Evaluations of Language Assessment, Placement, and Accountability Systems
7 Mapping Recent Immigrant Students onto the Education Policy Landscape: Summary, Policy Recommendations, and Directions for the Future
Epilogue: Public Schools Caught in the Hypocrisy of Immigration Policy and Politics
Appendix A. California State Programs Serving Immigrant and ELL Students
Appendix B. Data Sources, Descriptive Methods, and Additional Quantitative Analysis
Appendix C. Selection Processes and Methods for Interviews
Appendix D. Coding Criteria for Language Assessment and Accountability Analysis
Appendix E. Additional Discussion on General Impressions of the Academic Performance Index (API)
Appendix F. Sample Home Language Survey
References
Additional Readings
About the Authors
Index
Beyond "Bilingual" Education, by Alec Ian Gershberg, Anne Danenberg, and Patricia Sánchez, is available from the Urban Institute Press (paper, 6" x 9", 256 pages, ISBN 0-87766-723-3, $29.50).
