The Coral Way Bilingual Program
Maria R. Coady
The Coral Way Bilingual Program
Maria R. Coady
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This book introduces readers to the first publicly funded, two-way bilingual program in the United States, Coral Way Elementary School. It provides an accurate, clear and accessible examination of the program, its historical, social and political origins, its successes and its relevance for future bilingual programs.
Maria Coady beautifully weaves together data to describe the beginnings of the legendary Coral Way Bilingual Program. The story she tells reminds us that the needs of students and families should always shape and reshape educational approaches. A must-read for bilingual educators to understand our history as we work toward an equitable future.
Dual language education at Coral Way Elementary was the exemplar that paved the way to the Bilingual Education Act of 1968. In this book, Maria Coady captures the dreams of visionary educational leaders, teachers, parents, and community members whose activist work serves as inspiration for keeping the gift of bi/multilingualism alive for generations to come.
Coady’s outstanding historical review of the Coral Way bilingual program is a needed resource and an answer to the gap in the literature of understanding our past to “move into the future”.
[This book] is tightly organized, well-written, and crafted with care. Throughout the text Coady shares both her deep respect for those involved in the experiment as well as her profound commitment to advancing bicultural and bilingual education. The book poignantly captures the dedication, creativity, and financial resources needed to embrace and work to advance a ‘language as a resource’ paradigm in the United States in the 1960s and
perhaps even more so now.
I commend the author on what is an important contribution to the field. The book itself is well-written and it is easy to read [...] it explains the bases for building a bilingual program, it gives solutions to problems that may arise (e.g. period distribution and phases), and it shows the intricate relation with the socioeconomic context. Moreover, it is a reminder that bilingual education brings short and long-term formative outcomes for students.
Coady’s examination of the bilingual program at Coral Way serves as a reminder to those researching the field today to zoom out to situate their work within the bigger picture when examining DLBE and to root our understanding of where we are now, where we want to go, in where we first began.
Maria R. Coady is Irving and Rose Fien Endowed Professor and Associate Professor of ESOL/Bilingual Education at the University of Florida, USA. Her research specialises in English Language Learners and multilingual students, especially those in rural settings. Her most recent publication is Connecting School and the Multilingual Home (Multilingual Matters, 2019).