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Pifer, Alan – 1979
The bilingual education movement, begun in the 1960's and virtually mandated by the 1974 Supreme Court Lau vs. Nichols decision, is highly controversial due to public perceptions of bilingual programs; the apparent departure from traditional school language policy; and the concept of bilingual education as a strategy for realizing the social,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Court Litigation, Educational Finance, Educational History
