Bilingual Education Resources

Resources related to Politics, Education, and Multiculturalism

Latinos will account for 60% of the nation's population growth
between 2005 and 2050. [ Source ]

• Latinos are by far the largest minority group in the U.S. public school system, comprising more than one-fifth of all pre-K-12 students.
• Latino children and they are less likely than any other group to enroll in any early learning program.
• Only about half of all Latino students earn their high school diploma on time and of the students who do complete high school, only half are as likely as their peers to be prepared for college.
• Latinos are by far the largest minority group in the U.S. public school system, comprising more than one-fifth of all pre-K-12 students.
• Only 13% of Latinos have a bachelor's degree and only 4 percent have completed graduate or professional degree programs.
• 36% of the children served by Head Start are Latino and 19% of the nation's child care subsidy recipients are Latino.
• more than 22% of public school students are Latino nationwide, less than 7% of teachers are Latino. Latino males account for less than 2% of teachers nationwide.

James Crawford's Language Policy Web Site
a simply awesome collection of information t to promote eqaul opportunity for linguistic minorities

National Association for Bilingual Education http://www.nabe.org/ - committed to promoting educational excellence and equity through bilingual education.

National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/meetings/2011elconversation/
This resource center aims to provide educators with the materials needed to assist language-minority students.

Clearinghouse for Multicultural/Bilingual Education http://www.weber.edu/mbe/htmls/mbe.html - another resource center worth checking out

California Association for Bilingual Education http://www.bilingualeducation.org CABE offers legislative info and other resources related to serving the needs of California's diverse students. Stop by their chat room.

California Tomorrow
http://www.californiatomorrow.org/ focuses on research and info related to promoting equity for ALL students.

Bilingual Education Network
http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/el/ A variety of resources from the California Department of Education

Center For Multilingual, Multicultural Research
http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~cmmr/ USC's CMMR offers extensive information on bilingual education and issues of multiculturalism