" Perhaps once or twice a decade you read a book that is so lucid, convincing, and
inspirational that you want to order copies for every teacher, administrator, and policymaker …

In recent decades, the population of immigrants in the United States has steadily increased.
The numbers of foreign-born living in the United States grew from 9.6 million in 1970 to 28.4 …

133 to emphasize teaching the language explicitly. Finally, bilingual education has the
potential to offer a just education, leveling the power differentials among language groups …

Background In the Horne v Flores Supreme Court decision of June 25, 2009, the Court wrote
that one basis for finding Arizona in compliance with federal law regarding the education of …

Background The state of Arizona has recently mandated the Structured English Immersion
Model (SEI) in the state's public schools, and as a result the local flexibility that existed …

This study operationalizes Ruiz's language orientations framework (1984) and builds on his
later work (eg, 1997, 2008) by examining the ways in which local language policies …

Background/Context Over the last ten years, a convergence of laws and decrees has
impacted the development and implementation of Arizona's current program for English …

In spring 2019, without controversy or fanfare and without violating the voter mandate of
Proposition 203, emergent bilinguals in Arizona were once again granted unrestricted …

In 2000, voters in the US state of Arizona passed Proposition 203 English for the Children,
effectively abolishing bilingual education services in favor of a submersion approach termed …

The chapters in this collection deal with a wide range of important issues in quite different
contexts. All of the contexts, however, have been profoundly influenced by the major social …