Additional Resources

Below is a listing of additional resources. To find resources specific to one topic, please check “Resources” under the topic page. The information below was current at the time of this posting.

• Article: Closing the Staffing Gap and Ensuring Effective Teaching for the Students Who Need it the Most - http://www.learningfirst.org/news/edweekarticl/index.html

• Article: Savage Unrealities - Classism and Racism - http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/21_02/sava212.shtml

• Communication Across Barriers - http://www.combarriers.com/

• Dr. Mora's Cross-cultural Language and Academic Development (CLAD) website - http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/jmora/

• Portland Public Schools' languages data and for comparison, PPS's total enrollment data.

• The World Fact Book on the CIA's Web site

• Fadiman, A. (1997). The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

• Galanti, G. (2004). Caring for Patients from Different Cultures (3rd. ed.). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

• Kalyanpur, M., & Harry, B. (1999). Culture in Special Education: Building Reciprocal Family-Professional Relationships. Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co.

• Kohnert, K. (2008). Language Disorders in Bilingual Children and Adults. San Diego, CA: Plural Publishing Inc.