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The First Coral Way Bilingual Elementary School
Coral Way Elementary School in Dade County, Florida, is considered to be the first public school bilingual bicultural education program for both English and Spanish speakers in the United States. -
The Civil Rights Act becomes law
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement. -
Lyndon Johnson signs the Immigration Act of 1965
President Lyndon Johnson at the signing of the Hart-Celler Immigration Bill thirty years ago next month, on Oct. 3, 1965. The legislation, which phased out the national origins quota system first instituted in 1921, created the foundation of today's immigration law. And, contrary to the president's assertions, it inaugurated a new era of mass immigration which has affected the lives of millions. -
The Equality of Educational Opportunity Study Comes Out
"Equality of Educational Opportunity," commonly known as the Coleman Report (1966). The study made pioneering use of large data sets to help provide answers to an important group of public-policy issues. One of the study's most prominent conclusions was that lower-class black children benefited academically from being in integrated schools. -
Could not "redraw the lines . . .to achieve racial balance."
he schools of the city of Detroit, Michigan were racially imbalanced in the eyes of the District Court. The court’s remedy was to redraw lines of neighboring suburban school districts to achieve racial balance within the city’s schools. -
School Districts to Provide Equal Opportunities for all Students
Bilingual Education went up to the Supreme Court in Lau vs. Nichols 1974. The court ruled that students need to be given equal access to education, even if they don’t understand English. The issue in the San Francisco school district was not providing English instruction to 1800 Chinese students who did not understand English. The court ruled this violated the civil rights act of 1964 and the fourteenth amendment. -
The National Association of Bilingual Education is Founded.
Since 1975, the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) has been a non-profit membership organization that works to advocate for educational equity and excellence for bilingual/multilingual students in a global society. -
The Improving America's Schools Act (IASA) is signed into law by President Bill Clinton
Goals 2000 helps states and communities establish a framework for comprehensive, standards-based education reform for all students. The IASA provides additional support and the School-to-Work Opportunities Act helps build additional pathways to enable all children to meet challenging state standards. -
James Banks' book makes an important contribution to the growing body of scholarship regarding multiculturalism in education
Multicultural Education, Transformative Knowledge, and Action: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Essential to continued growth in the field of multicultural education is the documentation of its historical roots and its linkages to the current school reform movement. -
The Civil Rights Project report, Brown at 60: Great Progress, a Long Retreat, and an Uncertain Future
The South has not gone back to the level of segregation before Brown. It has, however, lost all of the additional progress made after l967, but is still the least segregated region for black students. New statistics show a vast transformation of the nation’s school population since the civil rights era. The authors reveal that Latinos are significantly more segregated than blacks in suburban America.
