History of Multicultural Education

  • Bilingual and Bicultural Public Schools

    Bilingual and Bicultural Public Schools
    This bill was signed into office in respnse to the influx of Cuab Immigrants. This is a huge advancment in that the U.S understood that we needed to incorperate Immigrants into our society so that we can learn from them and they can learn from us. These types of laws, overtime ave shown the world that U.S as a whole supports our immigrants and ther integration.
  • Civil rights Act

    Civil rights Act
    This was signed into law to eliminate discrimination against sex, color, race, orgin, and religion. This was pivital in the way that it cchanged the cultural landscape of the U.S.
  • Higher Education Act

    Higher Education Act
    This law helped provide regualr citizens with the oporotunity to expand their education past high scool. This is very important that it helped evolve this country by expanding the minds of its citizens.
  • Bilingual Education Act

    Bilingual Education Act
    This was pivital in that the U.S governmnt took a stance saying that we would put in an effort to educate children who can not speak to English. This is important that we rocognized these people as part of our community.
  • Indian Education Act

    Indian Education Act
    The U.S government wanted to integrate Native Americans into current socciety better and specifically wanted to meet thespecific needs Native Americans needed inorder to reach higher education. It also affierrmed the U.S responsibilities and commitment to the Native American culture.
  • Federal Judge Arthur Garrity

    Federal Judge Arthur Garrity
    Federal judge orders blacks to be shiped to all white schools in Boston. This was pivital in that he was taking a stand forcing whites to be integrated into everyday life with blacks in an effort to remove "white schools." This helped in that it forced those in the school to begin conversations and understand eachother.
  • Apple

    Apple
    The first at home computer was invented. This played a huge role in multicultural education because of the instant large databases available. Further more it was the stepping stone for multicultural communication that we all came to understand in recent years.
  • Microsoft Windows 1.0

    Microsoft Windows 1.0
    Microsoft launched the first software for an easily accesible computer for at homme use. This is important in that before Microsoft computers were very hard to use and the operating systems were largley codeed. This allowed for instant access with much more accesibility. This was the startingpoint of the technilogical communication age.
  • Immigration and nationalities Act

    Immigration and nationalities Act
    This law allowed for 700,000 imigrants to be accepted into the U.S annually. This is huge in that it allowed for more poeple from all over the world to expierence life in the U.S which overtime allowed for our citzens to have abetter undderstanding of those around the world.
  • September 11 2001

    September 11 2001
    This played a huge roll in our current landscape and in a sense played a roll in essentially closing off our borders and making it much harder to immigrate to the U.S. After 9-11 the U.S implemented the National Defense Authorization Act. which in multicultural integration played a pivitol roll in setting us back.