Introduction / Zeynep F. Beykont
Pt. 1. Educational reforms and language minority students
The high stakes of high-stakes testing / Miren Uriarte
Revealing illusions of educational progress: Texas high-stakes tests and minority student performance / Walt Haney
A quest for quality: providing qualified teachers for California's English learners / Julie Maxwell-Jolly and Patricia Gándara
Pt. 2. Successful teaching across language difference
"Remember I said": Cambodian students' second language literacy development in a mainstream classroom / Nancy H. Hornberger
Teaching bilingual students in mainstream classrooms / María Estela Brisk, Mary Dawson, Millicent Hartgering, Elizabeth MacDonald, and Lucinda Zehr
Agents of literacy change: working with Somali students in an urban middle school / Audrey A. Friedman
Connecting classroom and community through the arts and oral narrative / Berta Rosa Berriz
Pt. 3. Preparing teachers to teach across language difference
Creating an equal playing field: teachers as advocates, border crossers, and cultural brokers / Lilia I. Bartolomé
What we would have liked to know: preservice teachers' perspectives on effective teacher preparation / Audrey A. Friedman
"You can't step on someone else's words": preparing all teachers to teach language minority students / Meg Gebhard, Theresa Austin, Sonia Nieto, and Jerri Willett.
