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Pacheco, Mariana; Chávez-Moreno, Laura – Bilingual Research Journal, 2021
In recent decades, bilingual education policies, programs, pedagogies, and practices have been constrained by neoliberal agendas which have undermined the radical vision of bilingual education as a means toward self-determination that the Chicana/o Movement youth articulated more than 50 years ago. This narrowing of educational possibilities has…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Educational Policy, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices
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Pearson, Timothy; Wolgemuth, Jennifer R.; Colomer, Soria E. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2015
Public schools in some areas of the U.S. are as segregated as they were prior to court-ordered busing, in part due to school choice policies that appear to exacerbate extant segregation. In particular, Latina/o students are increasingly isolated in schools characterized as being in cycles of decline. Our case study of one such school is based on a…
Descriptors: School Segregation, School Choice, Public Schools, Hispanic American Students
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Yamagami, Mai – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2012
Using the frameworks of critical discourse analysis, representation theory, and legitimization theory, this study examines the political discourse of the campaign for Proposition 227 in California--particularly, the key social representations of languages, their speakers, and the main political actors in the campaign. The analysis examines the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Discourse Analysis, Educational Change, Court Litigation
Bransford, Jim; Chavez, Rodolfo L. – 1988
This study attempted to identify the skills, knowledge, and attitudes that parents of children in bilingual education programs believe are important for them to play a meaningful role in their children's education. Parent training models, some created specifically for use with language minority parents, have not resulted in increased parent…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Educational Needs, Mail Surveys, Parent Attitudes
Adcock, David L. – NABE: The Journal of the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1990
In 1980, Colorado legislators repealed the Bilingual-Bicultural Education Act and passed the English Language Proficiency Act. Interviews with legislators, policymakers, administrators, teachers, and parents suggest that this change resulted in greater focus on severely limited-English-proficient students, 2-year funding limits, more pull-out…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Bilingual Education, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Aguirre, Adalberto, Jr.; Bixler-Marquez, Dennis – 1980
The sociolinguistic assessment model employed in this study demonstrated a useful approach for examining the interrelationships between community and school goals regarding bilingual education. As results indicated, not only do educators and parents differ in their sociolinguistic characteristics, but also in their selection of a bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Teachers, Bilingualism, Educational Assessment