James Crawford

James Crawford is President of the Institute for Language and Education Policy, a newly formed organization to promote research-based advocacy for English-language and heritage-language learners. Over the past 20 years, he has specialized in these issues as an independent writer, lecturer, and consultant.

His latest book, Educating English Learners: Language Diversity in the Classroom, 5th ed. (Bilingual Educational Services, 2004), is widely used in teacher-training courses. His other major works include: At War with Diversity: U.S. Language Policy in an Age of Anxiety (Multilingual Matters, 2000); Best Evidence: Research Foundations of the Bilingual Education Act (National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education, 1997); Hold Your Tongue: Bilingualism and the Politics of "English Only" (Addison-Wesley, 1992); and Language Loyalties: A Source Book on the Official English Controversy (University of Chicago Press, 1992). In the mid-1980s he served as Washington editor of Education Week.

James Crawford maintains an extensive Language Policy Web Site, the Internet’s most visited site on this subject, at http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jwcrawford. He is also webmaster of a new site for the Institute for Language and Education Policy at http://www.elladvocates.org.

In addition, he serves on the editorial boards of Language Policy; Linguistics and Language Compass; the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism; and the International Multilingual Research Journal. From 2004 to 2006, Crawford was Executive Director of the National Association for Bilingual Education.

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