https://padlet.com/czer6952/bauju84p3gs7cjj6 en-us 2022-05-27 02:43:05 UTC 2022-05-27 02:53:48 UTC hello@padlet.com czer6952 https://padlet.com/czer6952/bauju84p3gs7cjj6/wish/2201663692 2015- Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) was signed into law on December 10, 2015. This replaced the NCLB which benefits Emergent Bilinguals. It recognizes that not all students are alike, and allows states to have flexibility in testing students for proficiency. Thus, allows them to use multiple measures, such as allowing them to test them in their home language. This event is important to Bilingual Education today because we are in dire need for flexible testing. Students should be tested in their home language and until ESSA is fully implemented student’s test results will be questionable. 

]]> 2022-05-27 02:52:42 UTC https://padlet.com/czer6952/bauju84p3gs7cjj6/wish/2201663692 czer6952 https://padlet.com/czer6952/bauju84p3gs7cjj6/wish/2201663884 1970 –  Lau v. Nichols was a court course that was brought on behalf of Chinese speaking students against a California school district who failed to provide educational instruction that adequately addressed the linguistic needs for non-English students. The school failed to provide a program for these students so the case argued that the school violated the 14^th Amendment and Title V1of the civil rights act of 1964. While the case was rejected by the Federal District Court, it was accepted by the US Supreme Court in 1974. This event is important to Bilingual Education today because it helped us understand the need to provide Non-English students with the same facilities as English speaking students so that they will not only have the language rights that they are entitled to but they will also receive an adequate education. Unfortunately, we still have the same issues with our programs today because our schools still have limited resources for Non-English students. 

]]> 2022-05-27 02:52:52 UTC https://padlet.com/czer6952/bauju84p3gs7cjj6/wish/2201663884 czer6952 https://padlet.com/czer6952/bauju84p3gs7cjj6/wish/2201663977 1994- A major reformation took place in 1994. The Improving Americas School Act (IASA) was a reauthorization of ESEA and the Title VII Bilingual Education Act. It was implemented to improve instructional strategies and to provide students with a high standard enriched educational program. This Act recognized bilingualism and provided schools with dual language programs and also helped support Native American Languages. The reformation stated that ELL’s need to be mainstreamed in order to provide them with higher standard education. This event is important to Bilingual Education today because it recognizes that the instructional strategies need improvement for Bilinguals. Today we still have dual language programs that help support ELL’s, however not every school offers a dual language program and the “mainstream” strategies that are implemented are not always designed for our bilingual students. In fact, much of our instruction is designed for the monolingual learner to succeed, and not vice versa. 

]]> 2022-05-27 02:52:56 UTC https://padlet.com/czer6952/bauju84p3gs7cjj6/wish/2201663977 czer6952 https://padlet.com/czer6952/bauju84p3gs7cjj6/wish/2201664029 2002 – No child Left Behind Act (NCLB) Act was approved by Congress in 2001 and signed into law in 2002. NCLB replaced IASA. The NCLB didn’t encourage bilingual programs, however they did allow it. Each individual state and schools were allowed to determine the type of bilingual programs they provided. However, some schools had limited funding. The NCLB also mandated tests that were designed for monolinguals. This event is important to Bilingual Education today because we still have mandated tests that are designed for monolinguals and when schools don’t meet the standards they appear to be failing. The expectations are unrealistic.

]]> 2022-05-27 02:52:59 UTC https://padlet.com/czer6952/bauju84p3gs7cjj6/wish/2201664029 czer6952 https://padlet.com/czer6952/bauju84p3gs7cjj6/wish/2201664139 2011- Seal of Biliteracy was originally initiated in California with the help of an ELL advocacy group to recognize the bilingual skills of High School students. The seal is awarded to those who meet specific criteria mandated by their school district or program and demonstrate a high level of proficiency in more than one language. This event is important to Bilingual Education today because high schools still recognize bilingual students and offer the Seal of Bilitracy. However, there has been concern that the seal may be given to freely to English speakers who have marginal skills in a second-language versus the bilingual students who this was originally intended for. 

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