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| Bilingual Education | 1 |
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| Thernstrom, Abigail M. | 1 |
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Peer reviewedThernstrom, Abigail M. – Public Interest, 1980
Traces the political and social factors (including Black nationalism) that have influenced Federal policy regarding bilingual education since the mid 1960s. Holds that current policy is ethnocentric and robs schools of their traditional integrative function. (GC)
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bilingual Education, Black Power, Educational Legislation
