Transcription of classroom observation of a home economics lesson (with a lot of classroom discourse in Spanish) on 21.10.79, extensively annotated with observations and comments about the classroom activities. There is then a discussion (also transcribed and annotated) about the practices of the teacher and the bilingual nature of the classroom, particularly as it relates to food, cooking and cultural distinctiveness.
Fieldnotes and transcript of a class of English and Spanish speaking children on 30.10.79, with extensive switching between languages. The teacher and children talk about Clem Adelman's presence in the classroom and about his microphone and recording equipment.
Brochure on the Bilingual Resource and Training Centre at Boston University (funded under Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) setting out its role and listing staff. Undated, but as Maria Brisk is shown as the Director it probably dates between 1978 and 1981.
Copy of briefing paper issued by Bureau of Transitional Bilingual Education, Department of Education, Commonwealth of Massachussets in 1979, on the State Transitional Bilingual Education Law (1971)
The original proposal compiled after the preliminary visits to Boston in 1978. It includes an overview of research design, timescale and budget. This is the document on which Saville Kushner based his reflexive account of how the work actually unfolded, comparing actual timescales and evaluation activities with the proposed ones.
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.
Article published in Time magazine focussing on the critical stance of Richard Rodriguez, a successful Mexican-American writer who claimed that bilingual education cheated minorities and who had been feted by critics of bilingual schooling.
