Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Richard Ruiz and His Legacy -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Language Planning -- 'Language Planning is Social Planning': Reflections on the Language Planning Contributions of Richard Ruiz -- Orientations in Language Planning -- Official Languages and Language Planning -- Language Planning Considerations in Indigenous Communities -- Threat Inversion and Language Policy in the United States -- English Language Planning and Transethnifi cation in the USA -- Part 2: Bilingual Education -- Richard Ruiz and Bilingual Education -- Language Teaching in American Education: Impact on Second- Language Learning -- Bilingual Education -- Paradox of Bilingualism -- The Knowledge Base of Bilingual Education -- Part 3: Language Fun -- Taking 'Language Fun' Seriously -- The Parable of the Pigs A Story in the Development of US Bilingual Education Policy -- Jesus Was Bilingual -- The Ontological Status of Burritos -- Part 4: Language Minority Education -- Introductory Reflection -- Ethnic Group Interests and the Social Good: Law and Language in Education -- The Empowerment of Language- Minority Students -- Asymmetrical Worlds: The Representation of the Ethnic in Public Discourse -- The Educational Sovereignty of Latino/a Students in the United States -- Part 5: Perspectives on Language Planning Orientations and Language Threat Inversion -- Language Ideologies and Bilingual Realities: The Case of Coral Way -- Language Orientations in Guatemala: Toward Language as Resource? -- 'Language as Catalyst': Exploring the Role of Linguistic Landscapes in the Framework of Richard Ruiz's 'Orientations in Language Planning' -- Threat Inversion and Language Maintenance in Puerto Rico and Aruba -- Part 6: Communities as Linguistic Resources Across the Americas: A Symposium of Essays -- Language, Voice and Empowerment Frameworks -- Indigenous Youth Language Resources, Educational Sovereignty and Praxis: Connecting a New Body of Language Planning Research to the Work of Richard Ruiz -- The Missing Voices in Colombia Bilingue: The Case of E˘be˘ra Children's Schooling in Bogotá, Colombia -- Learning About Linguistic Resources Through Home Engagements: Opportunities for Latina Preservice Teachers to Shape Their Language Orientations -- Afterword: Richard Ruiz -- Contributors -- Ruiz CV 2015 -- Index