Dudley Barlow/Alice Callaghan

This essay, called “Aiding Immigrants on Skid Row Is the Calling of an Activist” (part of a series called “20 Years that Changed Los Angeles: 20 Extraordinary Lives”) contains a good deal of biographical information about Callaghan.

This newsletter from the American Studies Association touches upon some of Dudley Barlow’s concerns in the classroom. Where might you go to find out more about some of these concerns?

Barlow writes for Education Digest. This page contains links to several of his reviews for that journal, on books with topics ranging from gay and lesbian issues in schools to learning disabilities.

Click here to read Callaghan’s Los Angeles Times piece "Schools Are Subverting the People's Will." What is the “Proposition” she is talking about here? Do some research by typing in “proposition” and the number associated with it into a search engine if you need more info. What, if anything, did this exercise add to your understanding of the piece in your textbook?

Interested in doing more research about bilingual education, but not sure where to start? This directory at Google.com should give you plenty of ideas.

To put bilingual education in the United States into a broader historical context, study this brief history of the subject, which traces the movement back to the middle of the 19th Century.

For further reading, here is an essay Richard Rodriguez wrote for PBS about speaking Spanish in the United States. What thematic links can you make from this reading to those found in your text?

If you’d like some starting points to research governmental and academic aspects of bilingual education, this "Electronic Textbook" will help you on your way.

Looking for a way to narrow your research topic? The National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition’s website offers much detailed information about state resources and policies promoting cultural understanding in schools.