Bilingual Public Schooling in the United States

Paul J. Ramsey is Associate Professor of Social Foundations of Education at Eastern Michigan University, USA.

• Introduction: Drafting the Blueprints for This Old Boardinghouse * Laying the Foundation for the Boardinghouse: The Context of Nineteenth-Century Schooling and Bilingualism * Building the Polyglot Boardinghouse in the Northeast and the South * Inside the Boardinghouse's Parlor * The Polyglot Boarders Move West * The Metaphysics of Foreigner-Hating: Nativism among the Homeowners * Progressivism, Science, and the Remodeling of the Boardinghouse * "If You Can't Fight over There, Fight over Here": World War I and the Destroying of the Boardinghouse * Rebuilding the Boardinghouse: The Interwar Years * Epilogue: The Federal Landlord

"Paul J. Ramsey has written a comprehensive and definitive history of bilingual education in America. Based on exhaustive research, the book is at once a sophisticated piece of scholarship and an accessible introduction to a subject that every student of American education should read." - B. Edward McClellan, Professor Emeritus, Indiana University, USA "Ramsey gives us a pioneering, uncommonly literate study of bilingual instruction in the United States.The diverse contexts and wide array of participants' voices he assembles invite scholars, policymakers, and anyone drawn to the topic to probe deeply its multi-layered and contentious history. We have needed this important book for years." - Donald Warren, Professor of Education, Indiana University, USA