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Education and Cultural Studies: Toward a Performative Practice

Reviewed by Patricia Anne DiCerbo, research associate at the National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Correspondence concerning this review may be sent to pdicerbo@ncbe.gwu.edu. No one who has spent even a little time with immigrant students in secondary classrooms in the United States will be surprised by what Aida Walqui has to say in her new book, Access and Engagement: Program Design and Instructional Approaches for Immigrant Students in Secondary School. Our middle, junior, and high schools typically have not been places of access and engagement for the majority of immigrants. Programs that work for immigrant children do not necessarily work for immigrant youth. Research on second language learning has even provided a fair idea of what could work, what is worthy of trying. So why read another book on the subject of effective programs and practices? Read this one because Walqui takes that &dquo;fair idea&dquo; of what works and moves it toward the practical and possible. Read it because Walqui does not underestimate the level of effort needed or the intricacy of the challenge. Read it if you are a teacher with even one immigrant student in your class. Read it if you are a secondary school principal who has just learned that your school will have more immigrant students than last year, or who wants