Contents -- Introduction -- Making Sense of Census 2000 -- Monolingual and Proud of It -- Heritage Languages in America: Tapping a 'Hidden' Resource -- Plus ça Change ... -- Concern or Intolerance: What's Driving the Anti-Bilingual Campaign? -- The Bilingual Education Story: Why Can't the News Media Get It Right? -- Ten Common Fallacies about Bilingual Education -- Agenda for Inaction -- 'Accountability' vs. Science in the Bilingual Education Debate -- Hard Sell: Why is Bilingual Education so Unpopular with the American Public? -- Has Two-Way Been Oversold? -- Surviving the English-Only Assault: Public Attitudes and the Future of Language Education -- Official English Legislation: Bad for Civil Rights, Bad for America's Interests, and Even Bad for English -- The Bilingual Education Act, 1968-2002: An Obituary -- No Child Left Behind: Misguided Approach to School Accountability for English Language Learners -- A Diminished Vision of Civil Rights -- The Decline of Bilingual Education in the USA: How to Reverse a Troubling Trend? -- Loose Ends in a Tattered Fabric: The Inconsistency of Language Rights in the USA -- References -- Index.