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Oxford, Rebecca; Stupp, Paul; Pol, Louis; Lopez, David; Peng, Samuel; Gendell, Murray – National Center for Education Statistics, 1981
The non-English language background (NELB) population is projected to increase from 28 million persons in 1976 to 30 million in 1980, 34.7 million in 1990, and 39.5 million in the year 2000. The total number of limited English proficient (LEP) children ages 5-14 estimated for 1976 is 2.5 million, with a drop to 2.4 million in 1980 and a gradual…
Descriptors: Limited English Speaking, Age Differences, Geographic Location, Language Usage
Heaton, Moss, Ed. – Loblolly Magazine, 1985
Written by history students at Gary High School, Gary, Texas, this issue includes two articles relevant to East Texas history. "Mission Dolores and Jim Corbin," (Moss Heaton and others) is a summary of material presented by Professor James Corbin about the early Spanish presence in East Texas. The first attempt at setting up a mission…
Descriptors: American Indian History, Ethnography, Folk Culture, Interviews
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San Miguel, Guadalupe, Jr. – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1983
A history of the influences and pressures shaping the evolution of bilingual education legislation in Texas (1965-73) illustrates how different and opposed political factions and philosophical views have shaped programs to teach language minority children such as Mexican Americans. (MH)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Educational Attitudes, Educational History
Bathurst, Effie G. – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1946
To promote inter-American understanding, a number of public-school systems, teacher-preparing institutions, State and county education departments, and the U. S. Office of Education recently cooperated in a series of experimental or demonstration centers. This bulletin describes the work carried on by 22 of these centers aided by a grant from the…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Public Schools, Schools of Education, Demonstration Centers
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San Miguel, Guadalupe, Jr. – History of Education Quarterly, 1983
Despite the efforts of Mexican American groups, such as the League of United Latin American Citizens and the G.I. Forum, and court orders to end segregation, schools in Texas continued to segregate Mexican American children. The political liberalism of these groups kept them from developing effective strategies against segregation. (IS)
Descriptors: Activism, Desegregation Litigation, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education