In the past 30 years, a large and growing number of students in U.S. schools have come from homes in which the language background is other than English. These

READ Perspectives, a refereed annual publication of the Institute for Research in English Acquisition and Development (READ), Washington, D.C., begins its sixth

How do we effectively teach children from homes in which a language other than English is spoken? In Improving Schooling for Language-Minority Children, a commi

The Education of Language Minority Immigrants in the United States draws from quantitative and qualitative research methodologies to inform educational policy a

This book addresses questions of language education in the United States, focusing on how to teach the 3.5 million students in American public schools who do no