ABSTRACT
As school administrators in the new millennium, we are cognizant of our responsibility to prepare all students to contribute meaningfully to a world that is increasingly interconnected. Our newer students bring with them valuable resources: their languages and their cultures. We can capitalize on these resources for the success and benefit of our English monolingual students as well. This chapter seeks to provide a discussion of bilingual education and its benefits for all students at a time when bilingual education is under attack because many public policy makers and school administrators do not understand it and at a time when local school districts and state legislatures across the United States pass policies, regulations, and laws outlawing the use of other languages for purposes of instruction.
