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Civil Rights Act
The Civil Rights Act becomes a law. It makes discrimination based on race, color, sex, religion or national origin unlawful, thus opening the doors for the education of others cultures in a more open way. -
The Bilingual Education Act, also know as Title VII, becomes law.
The Bilingual Education Act becomes law, requiring schools to have a multilingual education program. This would allow for minorty students full use of school. All though this act was later repealed, it is important in that it allowed for student of different backgrounds to mix allowing for cultural exchanges to take place. -
The e-Book is Invented
Michael Hart invents the e-Book. This would allow for books, the conerstone of education to be read by more people more easily. Thus, spreading education -
Title IX becomes law
Title IX prohibits discrimination based on sex in all aspects of education. This is important as it allows for everyone to get the same level of teaching, meaning that more people can be taught about other cultures. -
The Apple II is introduced
Apple continues to increase the popularity of the personal computer, it is quite popular with students in particular. This is important as this would serve as the impetus for the massive connectivity that we would see in later years. As connections with all sorts of people increase the more important something like multicultural education becomes. -
Plyler v.s. Doe
A landmark case with the outcome that states that it is a violation of the 14th admendment to deny a child public school regardless of their immigration status. This case would allow more children from different backgrounds into school and creates the chance for students to interact with other cultures. -
Multicultural Education, Transformative Knowledge and Action: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
James Banks' book Multicultural Education, Transformative Knowledge and Action: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives is published which provides a framework for this for courses like these and creates scholarly articles for others to learn about multicultural education -
Higher Education Act
College, and higher education is made more available for lower and middle class Americans. This allows for more students to be educated about other cultures through possible college classes. -
The Great Recession
The U.S. economy mired in what is called the "great recession." Unemployment rates are high and states have massive debts.This causes many teachers to face layoffs. Without teachers multicultural education can not flouish as much as it needs to. -
September 11
A terrorist attack by al-Qaeda is one of the deadliest in history. This event has a devastating effect on the United States. After this event tensions between cultural groups flared. This tension would impede the progress of multicultural education
