Bilingual Education: From Compensatory to Quality Schooling, Second Edition maintains its original purpose of
synthesizing the research on successful bilingual education in order to demonstrate that quality bilingual education
is possible and desirable.
Findings from a wide range of studies are integrated to provide a clear picture of bilingual education in today's
schools, and a professional understanding of the foundations and issues surrounding bilingual education programs.
The recommendations offered provide a comprehensive basis for planning, developing, improving, and evaluating bilingual
programs. For clarity, these recommendations are discussed with respect to the whole school, the curriculum, and
the classroom, but it is stressed that they need to be applied in a holistic way because they depend on each other.
All educators who work or will work with bilingual students�classroom teachers, administrators, and curricula developers�will
find the information in this text essential and will appreciate the straightforward approach and easy reading style.
New in the Second Edition:
Since the first edition, Maria Brisk has been involved in projects that allowed her to refine her thinking
on success, to document success, and to help develop a program using the characteristics of successful programs
as a guide. In addition, the turn of events in the past several years has deeply affected bilingual education in
the United States. This new edition reflects all of these changes.
A new Chapter 1, Pursuing Successful Schooling, includes the definition of success that frames the content
of the book, and a review of how the research on bilingual education has changed.
Chapter 2, Bilingual Education Debate, is substantially revised to address major changes in demographics and
legislation.
Chapter 3, Contextual and Individual Factors: Supports and Challenges, is updated to include important new
research on the external and internal factors affecting learners and a new section on peers.
Chapter 4, Creating a Good School is reorganized and updated.
Chapter 5, Creating Quality Curriculum, is updated throughout, particularly the sections on teaching content
areas and assessment.
Chapter 6, Creating Quality Instruction, includes extensive new material in the sections on "Teaching
English and In English" and "Teaching Students with Limited Schooling."
Chapter 7, Beyond the Debate, has an extensive new section describing and analyzing how the framework for quality
education can be used as a guide to help create a new program. Putting to practice the creation of creating quality
bilingual education demonstrates the possibilities and the difficulties. Documenting this process highlights the
need for collaboration and support in order to achieve quality education.
Table of Contents
Preface.
Pursuing Successful Schooling.
Bilingual Education Debate.
Contextual and Individual Factors: Support and Challenges.