Learning Communities

For information on creating learning communities, see:

http://www.creatinglearningcommunities.org/

For characteristics of a learning community, see:

http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/dlc.html

For information on professional learning communities, see:

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/content/currclum/cu3lk22.htm

Educating for Democracy

For a check list of characteristics of schools that educate for democracy, see the article "Educating for Democracy:

School and Classroom Practices" on the NCREL web site at http://www.ncrel.org/cscd/pubs/lead41/41check.htm

Deborah Meier, "Educating a Democracy" http://www.bostonreview.net/BR24.6/meier.html

Accents and Dialects

For sound recordings of various accents and dialects in the United States, see

http://www.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionary/chapters/accents.php

Code-Switching

For more information on the concepts of interlanguage and code-switching in bilingual speakers, see "Code Switching as a Countenance of Language Interference" at:

http://iteslj.org/Articles/Skiba-CodeSwitching.html

Sign Language

There is much information about American Sign Language on the Web; two very good sites are the following:

http://www.deaflibrary.org/asl.html
http://www.aslta.org/

Exploring Nonverbal Communication (with a section on cross-cultural nonverbal Communication) at http://nonverbal.ucsc.edu/

Learning Styles

http://www.d.umn.edu/student/loon/acad/strat/lrnsty.html
http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Learning_Styles.html
http://www.ldpride.net/learningstyles.MI.htm

Multiple Intelligences

"Seven Styles of Learning," by Elaine Winters, at http://www.bena.com/ewinters/styles.html

History of Bilingual Education

For more information on the history of bilingual education, see "History of Bilingual Education at http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/12_03/langhst.shtml.

Bililngual Education Legislation and Court Cases

For more information on some of the laws and court cases that laid the foundation for and tested the efficacy of bilingual education, see the following:

Lau v. Nichols [1974] http://www.englishfirst.org/be/lau.htm

Phyler v. Doe [1982] http://laws.findlaw.com/us/457/202.html

Billingual Education Act (1968) and Castenada v. Pickard [1981] http://www.jefferson.k12.ky.us/Programs/ESL/NewFiles/Legalrequirements.html

The Oakland Ebonics Controversy

For information on the Oakland, CA Ebonics dispute, see

http://www.cal.org/ebonics/

For the text of the revised Oakland Resolution on Ebonics, see

http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/8/8-56.html#1

Bilingual Education Backlash

For an idea of the debate on Proposition 227 in California and proposed or passed initiatives in other states, see

In favor of the proposition http://www.onenation.org/

Against the initiatives http://coe.sdsu.edu/people/jmora/Prop227PPT/Default.htm and http://brj.asu.edu/archives/1v21/articles/Issue1Crawford.html