Bread and Dreams, a Case Study of Bilingual Schooling in the USA
- Title
- Bread and Dreams, a Case Study of Bilingual Schooling in the USA
- Description
- The 1982 evaluation of bilingual schooling in Boston commissioned by the Ford Foundation against a background of heated nationwide debate about the value and cost of mandated bilingual education.
- Creator
- MacDonald, B.; Walker, R.; Kushner, S.; Adelman, C.
- Date
- 1982
- Language
- en
- Type
- Project
Dublin Core
Collection Items
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Bread and Dreams: Letter from Saville Kushner to Maria Kline, Principal of Rafael Hernandez School
Letter to Maria Kline asking her to remind Saville of her comments on the diagram showing routes through the school and adding that the report improves with every redraft. -
Bread and Dreams: Letter from Saville Kushner to Maria Brisk at Boston University
Letter to Maria Brisk Director of the Bilingual Education Programme at Boston University, confirming arrangements for her visit to Norwich in January 1980. -
Bread and Dreams: Draft - Designs, Methods and Performance - Draft Chapter for Final Report
A draft from July 1982 of the final section of the final report, including a review of the research design and a timetable of how events actually unfolded, in comparison with the proposed timeline. It also highlights several of the major points of difficulty that were encountered: the dissatisfaction of school staff with the portrayal of the school, and their concerns about the CARE teams' contact with policymakers while simultaneously having access the the school. -
Bread and Dreams: Draft - Limitations of the Case Study
A draft from May 1982 of a section of the final report "Limitations of the Case Study", part of which appeared as the final section of the book of the project. An important point that is made is that the team saw themselves not as writing a 'case study of the school' but of 'the issues and conditions of bilingual teaching', and this distinction was not appreciated by school staff. -
Bread and Dreams: Early Draft - 'First Impressions - topography, architecture and a sense of place'
Heavily hand-edited version of the "First Impressions" section of the report, with additional fieldnotes appended. Undated but seems to be an intermediate version between the first fieldnotes from 1979 (Document 114) and the revised versions (Documents 81, 82 and 83) -
Bread and Dreams: Article - Excerpt from 'Fortune' Magazine on cities and insolvency
Excerpt of article photocopied from "Fortune" magazine, March 1977, on cities, public spending and insolvency. Some references to Boston are underlined, this appears to have been used by Rob Walker and references appear to it in other writing. -
Bread and Dreams: Curriculum Vitae of Rob Walker
Curriculum vitae of Rob Walker -
Bread and Dreams: Expenses on project
List of expenses handwritten by Rob Walker for project work in Boston in October 1979 -
Bread and Dreams: Letter from Saville Kushner to Rob Walker
Letter from Saville Kushner to Rob Walker, who was at Monash at the time, about rewriting parts of the report. the main reason for writing was to ask to whom Walker had given some photographs -
Bread and Dreams: Actions to do for final report
A typed list of "to do" notes on Final Report from Rob Walker to Barry MacDonald, Saville Kushner and Clem Adelman, with particular detail for Section Three of the report -
Bread and Dreams: Notes and Questions for Reports
Handwritten notes (in an examination book) with a series of questions and discussion points about case study focused on bilingual schooling. Headings are "The Problem of Generalising from the Case" and "Bilingual Schooling - a checklist of questions", further divided into: "The Context", "Assignment", "Scheduling", "Curriculum Organisation", "Pedagogy/Learning" and "Social Relations". This does not refer explicitly to Rafael Hernandaez School – it is more a of an 'abstraction' from the case, and could be applied to other case studies. -
Bread and Dreams: Letter of introduction
Letter of introduction written by Barry MacDonald for Rob Walker's 6-day visit to Boston University for research on bilingual education.











