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America entered WWI and with that came anti-German feelings. There was a push for all people that resided in America to assimilate and only speak English. There was a fear that if people did not assimilate there would be a threat to Americas unity (Baker & Wright, 2021, p.183). This is an important part of the history of bilingual education because it promoted monolingual education. It also spread a negative view of bilingualism and impacted future educational decisions in America.

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In 1957 Russia made scientific advances by launching a satellite by the name of Sputnik into space. After this happened the United States questioned the quality of education in their own country and their ability to compete with countries around the world. This brought to the forefront that foreign languages were needed. "In 1958, the National Defense of Education Act was passed, promoting foreign language learning in elementary schools, high schools and universities." (Baker & Wright, 2021, p.184) This is important to bilingual education because it promotes the teaching and utilization of multiple languages in an academic setting. It ignored prior fears of losing unification and promoted diverse language utilization.

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The Bilingual Education Act was enacted in 1968. The purpose of this was to provide funding to school districts to support students that had limited English language abilities (Baker & Wright, 2021, p.185). This is important because it provided specific funds to help ELL learn in schools. It also diminished the English-only policies in certain states.

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In this year when ESEA was re-authorized there was inclusion of allowing teachers to use student's home language to assist them in progressing through school. Students were able to make progress in English or their home language (Baker & Wright, 2021, p.186). This is crucially important because recognition of progress in either of the students languages is a large piece of a bilingual education. A bilingual education focuses on the success of both languages.

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Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act, which ended No Child Left Behind. This strayed away from using only standardized tests as a measure of student achievement. It gave room for setting targets and interpreting test scores for ELL. This placed an emphasis on viewing a student's growth over time (Baker & Wright, 2021, p.195). The ESSA is important because it took the pressure and stress off the heavy emphasis of standardized test success. For ELL standardized tests are likely all in English and the students do not have the proper accommodations to succeed. By measuring an ELL's growth overtime and in different platforms it presents a more accurate view of their progress.