Papers, Speeches, and Articles by James Crawford and Sharon Adelman Reyes
Teaching
Those Who Can, Teach
Commencement Address, DePaul University School of Education, June 13, 2009
Bilingual Education
The Decline of Bilingual Education: How To Reverse a Troubling Trend?
Article in the International Multilingual Research Journal (2007)
Numbers Game: Challenging the Fallacies about Proposition 227
Article for the Bilingual Family Newsletter, Summer 2003
Hard Sell: Why Is Bilingual Education So Unpopular with the American Public?
Policy brief for the Education Policy Studies Laboratory (Arizona State University)
La Educación Bilingüe en Estados Unidos: Política versus Pedagogía
Paper presented at I Jornadas Internacionales de Educación Plurilingüe, Ayuntamiento de Vitoria-Gasteiz, País Vasco, España, 20 November 2001
The Campaign Against Proposition 227: A Post Mortem
Bilingual Research Journal 21, no. 1. Analysis of California's anti-bilingual initiative, February 1999
Ten Common Fallacies about Bilingual Education
Digest for the ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics, November 1998
The Bilingual Education Story: Why Can't the News Media Get It Right?
Critique of press coverage in the Prop. 227 campaign, presented to the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, 26 June 1998
The Political Paradox of Bilingual Education
Social Justice 25, no. 3 (Fall 1998)
Demography
Making Sense of Census 2000
Policy brief for the Education Policy Studies Laboratory (Arizona State University)
The Census and Linguistic Minorities: A Guide for the Perplexed
From the archives of the Language Policy Web Site
Dual Immersion
Beetles and Butterflies:
By Sharon Adelman Reyes
Journal of Latinos and Education 6(1), 81-92 (2007)
Nincas and Ninfas:
By Sharon Adelman Reyes
Language Learner (January-February 2006)
Toward an Expanded Understanding of Two-Way Bilingual Immersion Education:
Constructing Identity through a Critical, Additive Bilingual/Bicultural Pedagogy
By Sharon Adelman Reyes and Trina Lynn Vallone
Multicultural Perspectives 9(3): 3-11 (2007)
Dual Immersion: Can It Survive 'Data-Driven Reform'?
By James Crawford and Sharon Adelman Reyes
Language Magazine (April 2012)
A New Rationale for Dual Immersion
By James Crawford and Sharon Adelman Reyes
Language Magazine (April 2012)
English Only
Frequently Asked Questions about Official English
FAQ for the Institute for Language and Education Policy (2006)
Official English Legislation: Bad for Civil Rights, Bad for America's Interests, and Even Bad For English
Testimony before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Education Reform, 26 July 2006
Monolingual and Proud of It
Guardian Weekly (UK), 8 March 2001
Boom to Bust: Official English in the 1990s
From At War with Diversity: U.S. Language Policy in an Age of Anxiety (2000)
Surviving the English Only Assault: Public Attitudes and the Future of Language Education
Speech to the Michigan Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, 16 November 1996
Anatomy of the English Only Movement: Social and Ideological Sources of Language Restrictionism in the United States
Paper presented at a Conference on Language Legislation and Linguistic Rights, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 21 March 1996
Heritage Languages
Heritage Languages in America: Tapping a "Hidden" Resource
From Advocating for English Learners: Selected Essays (2008)
Seven Hypotheses on Language Loss: Causes and Cures
In Stabilizing Indigenous Languages, ed. Gina Cantoni (Flagstaff: Center for Excellence in Education, Northern Arizona University, 1996)
Endangered Native American Languages: What Is to Be Done, and Why?
Revised version of an article in the Bilingual Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 1 (Winter 1995)
Immigrants
Psychological Well-Being of Adolescent Immigrant Students:
Recommendations for School Practice
By Sharon Adelman Reyes and Juliet Dinkha
Language Learner (Jan.-Feb. 2005)
Language Rights
Loose Ends in a Tattered Fabric: The Inconsistency of Language Rights in the United States
In J. Magnet, Ed., Language Rights in Comparative Perspective (Markham, ON: LexisNexis Butterworths, 2008)
Legislating Language, Mandating Inequality
Article in The WorldPaper, special issue on language policy, July 1996
Summing up the Lau Decision: Justice Is Never Simple
Overview article for the proceedings of a national symposium, Revisiting the Lau Decision: 20 Years Later (Oakland, CA: ARC Associates, 1996)
No Child Left Behind
A Diminished Vision of Civil Rights
Commentary for Education Week, 6 June 2007
No Child Left Behind: Misguided Approach to School Accountability for ELLs
Presentation at a forum sponsored by the Center on Education Policy, September 2004
Obituary: The Bilingual Education Act, 1968-2002
Policy brief for the Education Policy Studies Laboratory (Arizona State University)
Pedagogy
Lessons from the First Grade,
By Sharon Adelman Reyes
Journal of Latinos and Education 1(3), 193-202 (2002)
Research
Agenda for Inaction: A Critique of the National Research Council Report Improving Schooling for Language-Minority Children
International Journal of the Sociology of Language 155/156 (2002)
"Accountability" Versus Science in the Bilingual Education Debate
Policy brief for the Education Policy Studies Laboratory (Arizona State University)
Life in a Politicized Climate: What Role for Educational Researchers?
Speech to the Linguistic Minority Research Institute, Conference on the Schooling of ELLs in the Post-227 Era, 14 May 1999