Ofelia García is Professor of Urban Education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has been Professor of Bilingual Education at Columbia University´s Teachers College, and at The City College of New York; and has been Dean of the School of Education in the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University. Among her publications are Imagining Multilingual Schools (with T. Skutnabb-Kangas and M. Torres-Guzmán), A Reader in Bilingual Education (with C. Baker), Language Loyalty, Continuity and Change: Joshua Fishman's Contributions to International Sociolinguistics (with Rakhmiel Peltz and Harold Schiffman), and The Multilingual Apple: Languages in New York City (with J.A. Fishman). She is a Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) in South Africa, and has been a Fulbright Scholar, and a Spencer Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Education.

Acknowledgements. PART I: BILINGUAL EDUCATION FOR ALL. 01. Introducing Bilingual Education. PART II: BILINGUALISM AND EDUCATION. 02. Languaging and Education. 03. Bilingualism and Translanguaging. 04. The Sociopolitics of Bilingualism. 05. Benefits of Bilingualism. PART III: BILINGUAL EDUCATION POLICY. 06. BE: Frameworks and Types. 07. BE: Factors and Variables by Hugo Baetens Beardsmore. 08. U.S. Language Policy in Education. 09. Language Promotion by European Supra-National Institutions by Hugo Baetens Beardsmore. 10. Monoglossic bilingual education policy. 11. Heteroglossic bilingual education policy. by Ofelia García, Hugo Baetens Beardsmore and Zeena Zakharia, with Debra Cole. PART FOUR: BILINGUAL EDUCATION PRACTICES. 12. Bilingualism in the Curriculum. 13. Bilingual Education Pedagogy and Practices. 14. Biliteracy Practices and Pedagogy. 15. Assessment by Ofelia García and Hugo Baetens Beardsmore. PART V: BILINGUAL EDUCATION FOR THE 21st Century. 16. Conclusion. Appendix: Myths and Realities: by Cristina Muir, Yesenia Morales, Lori Falchi & Ofelia García. Bibliography

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