This edited volume is dedicated to contemporary teachers. Its goal is to provide a practical book for in-service and pre-service teachers of bilingual/bicultural children. The authors, each of whom is herself bilingual/bicultural, share personal wisdom garnered from working in classrooms with bilingual/bicultural learners. This book provides practical knowledge for teachers who are struggling to meet the needs of increasingly diverse classrooms.

The following papers are included: "Bilingual Education in the Eighties: Making a Good Thing Better"; "How Bilingual Multicultural Education Can Save the World"; "Some Personal Reflections on the Bilingual Education Movement and the Challenge Ahead"; "Toward Understanding Cultural Difference in Public Education"; "Cultural Pluralism in Japan"; "A Comparison of Peruvian and United States Bilingual Education Programs"; "A Renaissance of Native American Indian Culture through Tribal Self-Determination and Indian Control of Indian Education"; "Motivation Based on a Chicano Value System"; "Language Renewal: Strategies for Native Americans"; "Alternative Approaches in Bilingual Education Teacher Training"; "Guidelines for Program Development in Teacher Education for Multilingual Settings"; "A Bilingual Homebound Tutorial Program for All Ages"; "Developing Bilingual-Vocational and Vocational English as a Second Language at the College Level"; "Can and Should the Laredo Experiment Be Duplicated Elsewhere?"; "College-Level Bilingual Education: Curriculum Planning and the Relationship of English and Home Language Development"; "The Misplaced Child: Does Linguistically Different Mean Learning Disabled?"; "Assisting Nonlearners in Bilingual Programs"; "Materials Development for Individualized Instruction in the Bilingual Classroom"; "Language Experience for the Bilingual Child"; "Social Factors in Second Language Acquisition: Peer-Tutoring Intervention"; and "Hortographia Himortal--A Third Look: Expanded Subcategorization of Bilingual Spanish-English Spelling Errors." (JB)