DOMINIC W. MASSARO, editor
University of California, Santa Cruz

Diversity in Education: It Is All in the Language

Language Diversity and Education
By David Corson. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2000. 256 pp. Paper, $29.95.

Given what we now know about ethnic, cultural, linguistic, socioeconomic, and gender diversity, no teacher candidate should complete his or her training without a course on diversity in education. Furthermore, no course on diversity in education is complete without considering the role language variance plays in establishing and perpetuating peoples' differences. With the publishing of Corson's Language Diversity and Education, we now have a single text that introduces educators to this all important and yet often neglected aspect of diversity by focusing on language differences for all these diversity types.