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Stephen Krashen and Grace McField

• What Works? Reviewing the Latest Evidence on Bilingual Education

Jeff McQuillan

• An Urban Myth: The 'Poor Quality' of Bilingual Education Research

Josefina Tinajero

• Bilingual Education in Texas: Lighting the Path, Leading the Way

James Crawford

• 'Science' in Rhetoric and Reality

More Articles 

Stephen Krashen

• Why Did Test Scores Go up in California? A Response to Unz/Reinhard (July 2001) – Contrary to partisan claims, test scores have gone up for both English-proficient and limited-English-proficient following passage of Proposition 227.
• Serious Accusations, Hard Data, and Media Myopia (June 2001) – Report on a recent panel discussion sponsored by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
• Bilingual Education, the Acquisition of English, and the Retention and Loss of Spanish (July 2000)
• Another Response to Keith Baker (June 1999) 
• Bilingual Education: Arguments For and (Bogus) Arguments Against – Presentation at the Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics, May 14, 1999, Washington, D.C. 
• Why Malherbe (1946) Is NOT Evidence Against Bilingual Education (May 1999) 
• A Note on Greene's "Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of Bilingual Education" (1998)
• A Researcher's View of Unz (1997)

• Bilingual Education in Arizona: What the Research Says (August 2000) – A review of the most rigorous scientific studies shows that bilingual programs have proven effective in Arizona.

Jim Cummins

• Research, Ethics, and Public Discourse: The Debate on Bilingual Education – Presentation at the National Conference of the American Association of Higher Education, March 22, 1999, Washington, D.C. 
• Beyond Adversarial Discourse (1998)

• Is 99% Failure A "Success"? Orange Unified's English Immersion Program (August 1998) 

• Structured Immersion Falls Short of Expectations: An Analysis of Clark (1999) (June 1999) 

• The READ Report on Prop. 227: A Transparently Political Document (June 1999) 

• A Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of Bilingual Education (1998)

• Supplemental Declaration in Valeria G. et al. v. Pete Wilson et al. (1998) – Study of the time required for LEP students to acquire academic English

• Supplemental Declaration in Valeria G. et al. v. Pete Wilson et al. (1998) – Response to researchers who support Proposition 227, including Rosalie Porter, Charles Glenn, and Christine Rossell
• Memorandum on Read Institute press release on NRC Report (1997)

Links to Additional Research

Stephen Krashen

• Bilingual Education and the Dropout Argument (1998)
• Why Bilingual Education? (1997)

• Performance of Redesignated Fluent-English-Proficient Students (1998) – Study found that, after acquiring English, formerly LEP children outscored all other groups in the San Francisco Unified School District, including native English speakers 

• Review of the Research on Instruction of Limited English Proficient Students (1997) – Report to the California Legislature from the University of California Linguistic Minority Research Institute, Education Policy Center, University of California, Davis (1997)

• The Education of Language Minority Students (2001) – Testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on why the option of bilingual education must be preserved to enable school districts to meet their obligations under Castañeda v. Pickard
• What Can We Learn About the Impact of Proposition 227 from SAT-9 Scores? (2000) – Ron Unz's claims about the "success" of English-only schooling have no scientific basis
• Bilingualism and Bilingual Education: A Research Perspective (1994) – A look at the psychological principles underlying language acquisition

• Improving Schooling for Language-Minority Children: A Research Agenda (1997)
• Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children (1998)

• Myths and Misconceptions About Second Language Learning: What Every Teacher Needs To Unlearn (1992)

National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education
Center for Multilingual, Multicultural Research – University of Southern California
Linguistic Minority Research Institute – University of California, Santa Barbara
Center for Bilingual Education & Research – Arizona State University
Center for Applied Linguistics
ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages & Linguistics
Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence – University of California, Santa Cruz

National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE)
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE)
Ventura County Chapter
Illinois Association for Multilingual Multicultural Education (IAMME)
Michigan Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (MITESOL)
New Jersey Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages/Bilingual Education (NJTESOL-BE)
New York State Association for Bilingual Education (NYSABE)

Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs – U.S. Department of Education
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