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Moving Away from the 4-Hour Block: Arizona's Distinctive Path to Reversing Its Restrictive Language Policies
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Kaveh, Yalda M.; Bernstein, Katie A.; Cervantes-Soon, Claudia; Rodriguez-Martinez, Sara; Mohamed, Saida – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2022
In spring 2019, without controversy or fanfare and without violating the voter mandate of Proposition 203, emergent bilinguals in Arizona were once again granted unrestricted access to dual language bilingual education after nearly 20 years. The policy change was accomplished through a seemingly small piece of legislation that reduced the daily…
Descriptors: Voting, Bilingualism, Access to Education, Bilingual Education
Equity/Social Justice, Instrumentalism/Neoliberalism: Dueling Discourses of Dual Language in Principals' Talk about Their Programs
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Bernstein, Katie A.; Katznelson, Noah; Amezcua, Angélica; Mohamed, Saida; Alvarado, Sarah L. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2020
This study explores how principals of dual language (DL) programs draw on two dominant societal discourses around language education--linguistic instrumentalism/neoliberalism and equity/social justice--to make sense of their programs. Through in-depth interviews with 19 principals of Spanish-English elementary school DL programs in Arizona and…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)