Power of Culture: Teaching Across Language Difference

Seventeen teachers, scholars, and researchers from the fields of linguistics, education, and multiculturalism explore issues in the education of language minority students in mainstream classrooms. Three key issues of educational reform—high- stakes assessment, classroom instruction, and teacher preparation—are addressed. The text argues that policies, public schools, and teacher preparation programs need to be redesigned to effectively respond to the needs of language minority students and to p…