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The Power of Culture: Teaching across Language Difference » (1st Edition)

Authors: Zenep F. Beykont
ISBN-13: 9781891792038, ISBN-10: 1891792032
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Harvard Education Publishing Group (H E P G)
Date Published: March 2002
Edition: 1st Edition

	Introduction	vii
Part 1	Educational Reforms and Language Minority Students	1
	The High Stakes of High-Stakes Testing	3
	Revealing Illusions of Educational Progress: Texas High-Stakes Tests and Minority Student Performance	25
	A Quest for Quality: Providing Qualified Teachers for California's English Learners	43
Part 2	Successful Teaching Across Language Difference	71
	"Remember I Said": Cambodian Students' Second Language Literacy Development in a Mainstream Classroom	73
	Teaching Bilingual Students in Mainstream Classrooms	89
	Agents of Literacy Change: Working with Somali Students in an Urban Middle School	121
	Connecting Classroom and Community through the Arts and Oral Narrative	147
Part 3	Preparing Teachers to Teach Across Language Difference	165
	Creating an Equal Playing Field: Teachers as Advocates, Border Crossers, and Cultural Brokers	167
	What We Would Have Liked to Know: Preservice Teachers' Perspectives on Effective Teacher Preparation	193
	"You Can't Step on Someone Else's Words": Preparing All Teachers to Teach Language Minority Students	219
	About the Authors	245
	About the Editor	249