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Title The power of culture : teaching across language difference / edited by Zeynep F. Beykont
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard Education Pub. Group, [2002]
©2002

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Description xxxvi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents The high stakes of high-stakes testing / Miren Uriarte -- Revealing illusions of educational progress: Texas high-stakes tests and minority student performance / Walt Haney -- A quest for quality: providing qualified teachers for California's English learners / Julie Maxwell-Jolly and Patricia Gandara -- "Remember I said": Cambodian students' second language literacy development in a mainstream classroom / Nancy H. Hornberger -- Teaching bilingual students in mainstream classrooms / Maria Estel Brisk, Mary Dawson, Millicent Hartgering, Elizabeth MacDonald, and Lucinda Zehr -- Agents of literacy change: working with Somali students in an urban middle school / Audrey A. Friedman -- Connecting classroom and community through the arts and oral narrative / Berta Rosa Berriz -- Creating an equal playing field: teachers as advocates, border crossers, and cultural brokers / Lilia I. Bartolome -- What we would have liked to know: preservice teachers' perspectives on effective teacher preparation / Ausrey A. Friedman -- "You can't step on someone else's words": preparing all teachers to teach language minority students / Meg Gebhard, Theresa Austin, Sonia Nieto, and Jerri Willett
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Linguistic minorities -- Education -- United States.
Children of minorities -- Education -- United States.
Language and education -- United States.
Author Beykont, Zeynep F.
LC no. 2002102113
ISBN 1891792032