Timeline of Bilingual Education by Jenna McDonald

1919 - Americanization of the Department of the United States Bureau of Education

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The adoption of both private and public education in each state to be conducted in English.

This decision resulted in English being determined as the dominant language in the U.S.

1917 - Pressure to be Monolingual

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As a result of World War II and the Anti-German propaganda spread throughout the U.S. The pressure to speak English increased while there was a decrease in learning foreign language.

This decision resulted in the importance of English being spoken in society and being taught in school and the decrease in other languages being socially acceptable.

1967 - Bilingual Education Act

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This act indicated that bilingual education programs were to be seen as part of federal educational policy. It allowed the use of federal funds for the education of speakers of languages other than English.

This helped bring bilingual programs to school, but still focused heavly on the importance of English over other languages.

1975 - Lau remedies

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These remedies provided help provide assistance for English Language Learners such as: classes, tutotoring, and some form of bilingual education. These remedies help to create an expansion of the use of minority languages in schools.

These remedies are a step towards establishing more language rights in the U.S.

1998 - California's Proposition 227

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Or the 'English for the Children' initaitaive was an effort to improve English language instruction for children who needed to learn English for economic and employment opportunties.

2001 - No Child Left Behind

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Resulted in ELL being forced to take the same tests as native English speakers until protests from states resulted in students being able to be excluded from the state reading test and having their scores be excluded from school AYP calculations.

2009 - Race to the Top

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This program granted funding for states to pursue education reform. Part of the requirements was high-quality assessments that and valid and reliable for all students including English Language Learners. The goal of these grants was to bring grants to schools to develop programs for college and career-readiness according to standards.

2011 - Seal of Biliteracy

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The Seal of Biliteracy is an award given by a school to recognition of students who have studued and attained proficiency in two or more languages by high school graduation.

Today, the Seal of Biliterarcy is used is world language programs in NYS to help increase and encourage student to continue on study with languages other than English.

2015- Every Student Succeeds Act

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With this act, states were now given more flexability when for goal setting and how they will intervene in low-performing schools. Other factors are now consider factors other thean test schores in their school accountability program.

This has opened up space for a student's level of English proficiency to be considered when settign acheivement targets and interpreting their test scores.