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Article: Title VII ESEA: The ambivalence of language policy in the United States
- Article from:
- Bilingual Research Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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CopyrightCopyright National Association for Bilingual Education Winter 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The Bilingual Education Act (Title VII of the amended Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965) was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in January of 1969. The day after he signed the law the Washington Post editorialized that, unbeknownst to the vast majority of the citizenry, a quiet revolution had been foisted on the American people through the passage of the Bilingual Education Act (Schneider, 1976). The tone of the editorial was somber; it was meant to be a warning, perhaps even a call to arms. How could a law that was intended to alleviate the well documented low educational achievement of U.S. Hispanics (due in large measure to historic exclusionary policies and ...