The Bilingual Education Act: language minority students and US federal educational policy. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 4, no. 4: 29A48.Wiese, A.M., Garcia, E. (200 l ). The bilingual education act: language minority students and US federal educational policy. ...
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...
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 illustrate the role of state and community groups, let's consider the Invisible Minority (Pero no vincibles)" (NEA, 1966) report that preceded the BEA by two years and has been heralded as the "Birth of the Bilingual Movement." Findings from this report are said to have inspired the...
getting an education equal to that of their English-proficient peers. The Bilingual Education Act revisions of 1974 recast provisions of the 1968 legislation. The 1974 law created the National Advisory Council on Bilingual Education to articulate a plan for a national policy in bilingual education....
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 ...
Not too surprisingly, then, a decade after the passage of the Bilingual Education Act, the state of the art in the field can still perhaps best be characterized as relative- ly primitive. Not until 1974, when the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) was requested by Sen. Edward Kennedy's...
Showing a limited preview of this publication: 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...
A. Bilingual Education Act B. Proposition 227 C. affirmative action program D. No Child Left Behind Act Ⅲ. Discussion Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of local responsibility for public elementary and secondary education in the U.S. Regarding the power over, or responsibility for, educatio...
The Balancing Act of Bilingual Immersion. Highlights the importance of balance in bilingual immersion. Comparison of monolingual students and students in dual language programs; Disadvantage of cod... Hadi-Tabassum,Samina - 《Educational Leadership》 被引量: 3发表: 2005年 The Balancing Act of Family...