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Before the Federal Bilingual Education Act: Legislation and Lived Experience in California
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Petrzela, Natalia Mehlman – Peabody Journal of Education, 2010
The federal Bilingual Education Act (BEA; 1968) augured a new era in the national politics of diversity, schooling, and state, and California became symbolic of the problems and promise of bilingual pedagogy. This article explores how the BEA was pivotal not only in conceiving a federal commitment to the educational achievement of…
Descriptors: Modern History, Mexican Americans, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students