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?
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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?
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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
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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?
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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
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Social Justice 25, no. 3 (Fall 1998)
Demography
Making Sense of Census 2000
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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
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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
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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
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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
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From Advocating for English Learners: Selected Essays (2008)
Seven Hypotheses on Language Loss: Causes and Cures
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
