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14th Amendment
Granted the rights of citizenship to individuals who were born in America or who were naturalized. Under this amendment every citizen has the right of life, liberty, and property. This amendment started the process of rights for everybody.
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Chinese Immigrants
The U.S. Supreme Court decides that children of Chinese immigrants have the right to a public education.
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Brown v. Board of Education
Declared segregation in public schools Unconstitutional. This paved the way for many other equal right and antidiscrimination policies.
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Bilingual Education Act of 1968
Conidered the most important law passed on the part of Bilingual Education. Schools were now able to experiement with different approaches to reach low income students and students who did not speak English. Allowed schools to receive supplemental funding if they were trying to find new ways to reach students who did not speak English.
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Lau v. Nichols
Lau v. Nichols was a lawsuit against San Francisco Public Schools because there were close to 2,000 Chinese American students that were not receiving equal education.This started the idea that just because English Language Learners were learning out of the same books and the same topics they weren't actually getting the same education. Lau v Nichols sparked the debate that English Learners should have curriculum they can learn from.
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Equal Education Opportunity Act
This law made it a requirement that schools would give students who were learning English and equal opportunity by allowing the information they were learning to be taught in their native language and learning English along side of their academics.
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Elementary and Secondary Education Amendments of 1984
This amendment paved the way for better instruction for Englsh Language Learners.
-English and the students native language were combined.
-Developmental programs for students to be allowed full time instruction in English and a second language to help achieve proficiency.
-Teachers were encouraged to use different techniques to allow students to become proficient in English.
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No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
Created to close acheivement gaps, NCLB wanted students to be profient on their annual test scores. NCLB was an update to the Education Act of 1965 and stressed the importance of getting ELL, low income, and disadvantaged students to perform better academically.
(U.S. Dept. of Education, no date)
