Bilingual Education Act, U.S. legislation (1968) that offered federal grants to school districts for the purpose of creating educational programs for students with limited English-speaking ability. It was the first time that the U.S. government officiall
bilingual education,the sanctioned use of more than one language in U.S. education. The Bilingual Education Act (1968), combined with a Supreme Court decision (1974) mandating help for students with limited English proficiency, requires instruction in the native languages of students. The National...
To respond to this need, Congress passed the Bilingual Education Act in 1968. This act provided federal financial incentives, using what some people call "a carrot approach," to encourage schools to initiate bilingual education programs. Not all districts chased the carrot....
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This paper traces the United States Bilingual Education Act (BEA) from its inception in 1968 through its most recent reauthorisation in 1994 as the primary federal legislative effort to provide equal educational opportunity to language minority students in the United States. The first section ...
This paper traces the United States Bilingual Education Act (BEA) from its inception in 1968 through its most recent reauthorisation in 1994 as the primary federal legislative effort to provide equal educational opportunity to language minority students in the United States. The first section introduce...
The Bilingual Education Act passed in 1968 was the first federal law expressly addressing the educational needs of LEP students in American schools, and did so by providing a financial reward—federal grants awarded on a competitive basis—for providing help to LEP students.4 Later federal laws ma...
The Bilingual Education Act of 1968 was the 1st bill of this kind that encouraged the special educational needs of limited English speaking children and to provide financial assistance to local schools to carry out these programs. During the next several years the proponents of bilingual education ...
In 1968 the Bilingual Education Act (BEA): Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, was approved by President Lyndon B. Johnson. It was the “first bilingual-bicultural education program at the federal level.” It provided funding for planning and developing bilingual ...
The Political Paradox of BilingualEducationEnacted at the apex of the Great Society, the Bilingual Education Act of1968 passed Congress without a single voice raised in dissent. Americanshave spent the past thirty years debating what the law was meant toaccomplish. Was it intended primarily to assi...