@article{354428,
      recid = {354428},
      author = {Ramsey, Paul J.},
      title = {Bilingual public schooling in the United States a history  of America's "polyglot boardinghouse" / [electronic  resource] :},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiii, 278 p.)},
      year = {2010},
      note = {Description based on print version record.},
      abstract = {This history of one of the most contentious educational  issues in America examines bilingual instruction in the  United States from the common school era to the recent  federal involvement in the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing from  school reports, student narratives, legal resources, policy  documents, and other primary sources, the work teases out  the underlying agendas and patterns in bilingual schooling  during much of America's history. The study demonstrates  clearly how the broader context - the cultural,  intellectual, religious, demographic, economic, and  political forces - shaped the contours of dual-language  instruction in America between the 1840s and 1960s.  Ramsey's work fills a crucial void in the educational  literature and addresses not only historians, linguists,  and bilingual scholars, but also policymakers and  practitioners in the field.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/354428},
}