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Leckie, Alisa G.; Kaplan, Suzanne E.; Rubinstein-Avila, Eliane – Language Policy, 2013
Several states, including Arizona, have enacted English-only legislation, within the past decade, impacting the schooling of students who are identified as English language learner (ELLS). As a result, ELLS in Arizona are assigned to a prescriptive program--apart from their fluent English-speaking peers--for 4 h a day, during a time "not…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, English (Second Language), Discourse Analysis, Second Language Learning
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Orozco, Richard A. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2012
The article discusses a legislation that would effectively terminate Mexican American Studies programs in k-12 was passed in Arizona in 2010. In this article, the author traces how this legislation drew from discourses of anti-Americanism and wickedness initiated by the state's superintendent of public instruction against Mexican American Studies…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Mexican Americans, Discourse Analysis, Hispanic American Culture