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Bangura, Abdul Karim, and Martin C. Muo. United States Congress & Bilingual Education. New York: Peter Lang, 2001.

This book is about the role of the legislative branch of the National Government of the U.S. in the passage of the 1968 Bilingual Education Act. Four main questions are examined in this book.

DebBurman, Noyna. Immigrant Education: Variations by Generation, Age-at-Immigration, and Country of Origin. New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2005.

In this book DebBurman discusses changes that are arising in the United States because of immigration. The book discusses labor and social issues that relate to immigration and focuses on education practices in the United States that have to adapt to teaching a larger population as well as an ever changing population. "Educational attainment for adult immigrants" and "school enrollment for immigrant children" are the two points of immigrant education most evaluated.

Baker, Keith A., and Adriana A. de Kanter, eds. Bilingual Education: A Reappraisal of Federal Policy. Lexington: LexingtonBooks, 1983.

This book covers all the bases that the Department of Education covered in 1983 when doing a thorough review of Bilingual Education's effectiveness as well as the other alternatives to Bilingual Education. The book was "prepared by the Office of Planning, Budget, and Evaluation (OPBE) of the U.S. Department of Education." (Baker, ix) The information on the alternatives to Bilingual Education still apply, but many new alternatives have been developed since 1983 so it is a little out of date. Most importantly though it recognizes that if Bilingual Education is to be successful, no matter what method is being used, it must be adequately funded and correctly implemented.

Cordasco, Francisco. Bilingual Schooling in the United States: A Sourcebook for Education Personnel. New York: McGraw-Hill Inc., 1976.

This book contains a collection of articles from various authors which cover many different aspects of bilingual education. It discusses controversial issues such as the theory and practice of bilingual education. It was especially helpful in naming and discussing court cases concerning bilingual education before 1975.

Davis, Marco A.. "Latino Leadership Development: Beginning on Campus." National Civic Review 86 (1997): 227-233.

This article looks at the necessities of developing leadership not only in individuals, but in communities as well. Davis takes a special interest in the leaders of the Latino community. Where are they? The Latino community is very under-represented in the United States, but many student groups are beginning to form and take an active role in their communities and Davis discusses the need to foster these activities.

Garcia, Eugene, and Tom T. Stritikus. "Revisiting the Bilingual Debate From the Perspectives of Parents: Policy, Practice, and Matches or Mismatches." Educational Policy 19:5 (2005): 729.

This article discusses two questions about educational policy and practice for English-language-learner (ELL) students. First, what are parent's views regarding anti-bilingual education initiatives? Also, are these beliefs similar to those in previous research. A statewide survey of Arizona was conducted to help to answer these questions. From this study it is hoped that better policies will be implemented to help to meet the needs of non-native English speakers.

Kogan, Esther. Gifted Bilingual Students. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2001.

This book was used because it had an in depth chapter on the historical background of bilingual education in the U.S..

National Association for Bilingual Education. National Association for Bilingual Education. 2005 [cited 4 November 2005]. Available from World Wide Web: < http://www.nabe.org/>

The National Association for Bilingual Education is the only organization that can be found on the national level for supporting Bilingual Education. It strongly promotes research in the area of Bilingual Education so that accurate data can be used to support the its effectiveness. NABE also functions as an advocacy group for teachers, students, and parents through hosting a national conference and promoting legislation to improve educational funding. NABE has affiliate organizations in almost every state that can be found on its website. One of the best qualities this website has to offer is the fact that it has a "press room" that has all the recent news stories that relate to Bilingual Education and NABE has many publications to keep the public informed as well.

National Center for Education Statistics. Number and percentage of public elementary and secondary migrant students and number and percentage of students served in English Language Learner (ELL) Programs in the 100 largest districts in the United States and jurisdictions: By school district, school year 2001–02. n.d. [cited 4 November 2005]. Available from World Wide Web: <http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2003/100_largest/table_20_1.asp>

This specific website is a table that gives the "Number and percentage" of how many children are enrolled in English Language Learner Programs in the "100 largest districts in the United States." The NCES is a good source of data for all types of educational research. This table helped us to get a feel for just how many children in our country are using ELL services and chose to use it because many people do not know just how much a necessity it is today. NCES is home to many educational research projects that can be viewed in PDF form or ordered in a hard copy version.

Ortega, Robert. Latinos and Child Welfare. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan School of Social Work, 1996.

This report delves into the topic of child welfare from the Latino perspective. It touches upon socioeconomic conditions that effect the lives of not only children, but their parents as well. The main topic of this report is "Voces de la Comunidad," a focus group that discusses their living situations and how issues like drugs and violence effect their families' lives.

Pérez, Bertha. Becoming Biliterate: A Study of Two-Way Bilingual Immersion Education. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 2004.

This book outlines the research of Pérez on one of the newest alternatives to Bilingual Education: two-way bilingual immersion. It focuses on the programs and implementation of two-way bilingual immersion in two different schools and gives an analysis of the "instructional practices" ( Pérez, xviii). She intentionally writes the book so it can be used by many different people including but not limited to, graduate students, school administrators and teachers, and also those who may be interested in implementing a two-way bilingual immersion program. Most importantly Pérez is not giving a "recipe" but more of an outline to how it has been done before and the ramifications.

Rennie, Jeanne, and Kathleen Marcos. The Effectiveness of Bilingual Education. in ERIC/CLL [database online]. n.d. [cited 4 November 2005]. Available from World Wide Web: < http://www.cal.org/ericcll/faqs/rgos/bi.html>

This website is the homepage for other pages that deal with the subject of bilingual education. There are articles discussing the effectiveness of different types of bilingual education and English-only programs.

Rolstad, Kellie, Kate Mahoney, and Gene V. Glass. "The Big Picture: A Meta-Analysis of Program Effectiveness Research on English Language Learners." Educational Policy 19:4 (2005): 572.

This study is about the effectiveness of research on English language learners. It uses previous studies to draw conclusions. From this study it is found that bilingual education approaches are better than English-only approaches. Therefore, bilingual education programs should be supported.

Zentella, Ana Celia. Bilingual Aesthetics. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004.

The segment of Bilingual Aesthetics that we used was titled "Jose Can You See?" which dealt with "racist discourse" in America. The main focus was on "Mock Spanish" and other linguistic topics like code switching. In this portion of the book, language was looked at as an identity that people could slip in and out of and allow "Latino adolescents [to] try on new outfits for specific settings or situations" (Zentella, 59).

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