INTRODUCTION: Organization, Content and Purpose of the Book: Ofelia Garcia, Zeena Zakharia and Bahar Otcu PART I: CONCEPTUALIZING BILINGUAL COMMUNITY EDUCATION Ofelia Garcia, Zeena Zakharia and Bahar Otcu: Bilingual community education: Beyond heritage language education and bilingual education in New York PART II: COMMUNITIES EDUCATE THEIR OWN BILINGUAL CHILDREN Community Organizations: Dynamic Bilingualism in Community Education Carmina Makar: Building communities through bilingual education: The Case of Asociacion Tepeyac de New York Ruhma Choudhury: Raising bilingual and bicultural Bangladeshi-American children in NYC: Perspectives from educators in a Bengali community program Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher and Anup P. Mahajan: Salaam! Namaste!: Indian and Pakistani community-based efforts towards mother-tongue maintenance Supplementary Bilingual Community Schools: Innovations and Challenges Jeehyae Chung: Hidden efforts, visible challenges: Promoting bilingualism in Korean-America Naomi Kano: Japanese community schools: New pedagogy for a changing population Bahar Otcu: Turkishness in New York: Languages, ideologies, and identities in a community-based school Maria Hantzopoulos: Going to Greek school: The Politics of religion, identity and culture in community-based Greek language schools Informal Community Education: Alternative Pathways to Bilingualism Busi Makoni: Community-based initiatives and Sub-Saharan African languages in the Big Apple Roozbeh Shirazi and Maryam Borjian: Persian bilingual community education among Iranian-Americans in New York City Bilingual Community Day Schools: Changes and Continuities Zeena Zakharia and Laura Menchaca Bishop: Towards positive peace through bilingual community education: Language efforts of Arabic-speaking communities in New York Sharon Avni and Kate Menken: Educating for Jewishness: The teaching and learning of Hebrew in day school education Rakhmiel Peltz and Hannah Kliger: Becoming Yiddish speakers in New York: Burgeoning communities of bilingual children PART III: COMMUNITY-PUBLIC SCHOOL ALLIANCES FOR BILINGUALISM Laura Ascenzi-Moreno and Nelson Flores: A case study of bilingual policy and practices at the Cypress Hills Community School Jane F. Ross and Fabrice Jaumont: Building bilingual communities: New York's French bilingual revolution Isabelle Barriere and Marie-Michelle Monereau-Merry: Trilingualism of the Haitian diaspora in NYC: Current and future challenges Tatyana Kleyn and Beth Vayshenker: Russian bilingual education across public, private and community spheres Wen-Tsui Pat Lo: Mandarin-English bilingual education in New York City: A case study of supplementary education in the Chinese community PART IV: BILINGUAL RESOURCES FOR A GLOBAL FUTURE: RECOMMENDATIONS Maureen T. Matarese: Beyond community: Networks of bilingual community support for languages other than English in NYC Ofelia Garcia: American multilingualism for a global future: Recommendations for parents, educators and policy-makers