Lau V. Nichols: Bilingual Education in Public Schools

by Stephanie Sammartino McPherson

Examines the 1974 Supreme Court case in which a group of Chinese American parents sued the San Francisco School Board on behalf of their children for not providing a special learning environment for Chinese-speaking students.

Genres: Education, Nonfiction

128 pages, Library Binding

First published November 1, 2000

About the author

Stephanie Sammartino McPherson wrote her first children's story in college. She enjoyed the process so much that she's never stopped writing. A former teacher and freelance newspaper writer, she has written twenty-eight books and numerous magazine stories. She especially enjoys writing about science and the human interest stories behind major discoveries.

Stephanie and her husband, Richard, live in Virginia but also call California home. They are the parents of two grown children.

Reviews

[Lynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting account of the fight for bilingual education. Wonderful book about the landmark Supreme Court case requiring school districts to offer education to students who needed to learn English. Other court rulings have strengthened the ruling and weakened it but the ruling imperfectly still stands. The details in this book is information I should have learned in graduate students as a TESOL student but didn't. An important book and some detailed adult book and a children's picture book should be developed around the case and its story. Thanks to the book series for publishing this book.