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Zhongfeng Tian; Kevin M. Wong – Language Policy, 2024
This study examined how three champion principals of Asian language dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs--Cantonese, Korean, and Mandarin--in California have navigated the oscillating language-in-education policies after the Lau decision. We explored principals' various roles through a lens of agency in a social justice leadership…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Bilingual Education Programs, Asian Americans, Advocacy
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Gandara, Patricia; Baca, Gabriel – Language Policy, 2008
We argue here that the combination of U.S. federal education policy as embodied in the "No Child Left Behind Act of 2001" with the passage of a California state initiative that required that "nearly all classroom instruction [be] in English...for a period not normally intended to exceed one year" in 1998 created a "perfect…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement, Second Language Learning