bilingual education
Bilingual Education Most people believe that bilingual education was an invention of the 1960’s when in fact the first laws of bilingual education took place far back in history. In 1839, Ohio became the first state to adopt a bilingual education law that authorized German-English instruction at the parents request. ... Also, many other states provided bilingual instruction without state sanction. ... The World War I era is what changed the bilingual education laws. ... The ban of bilingual education even went as far as not allowing the study of foreign languages in schools’. ... By the mid 1920’s bilingual schooling had come to its end. ... In 1968, the Bilingual Education Act was passed. ... The Bilingual Education Act came along at the time of growing immigration and active civil rights movements. ... The Bilingual Education Act was amended in 1974 and again in 1978 to better assist limited English students. There have been several court cases regarding discrimination against minority groups being denied equal education. ... Nichols of 1974, 1800 Chinese-speaking students were denied access to equal education by the San Francisco School District. ... The ruling stated that effective measures must be taken to ensure equal access to education opportunities. ... The Equal Educational Opportunity Act states that no state shall deny equal education opportunities to an individual on account of his or her race, color, sex, and nation origin.