Overview
This page will cover the United States education system, a Latinx fight for educational equity, the benefits of ESL programs, the backlash they have received, and the backlash they have received, the push for bilingual education, anri-racist education, and how to teach using anti-bias methods.
More specifically, this page will explore moments in the history of court cases involving the fight for education and educational equity and focus on the challenges Latinx students face in the educational system by looking into the policies that were put in place against bilingual education and ESL programs used by examining deficit-model and deficit-model thinking.
Below you will find lesson plans and extra sources about...
- The History of Bilingual Education in the United States
- Specific court cases that sought to equalize education for ELL students
- Prominent Bilingual Education activities
- Connecticut's contribution to the Bilingual education Social justice movement
Objectives
- Define and apply the terms to current world situations.
- Understand the history of Latinx students' experiences within the United States educational system, deficit-model thinking, previous educational bans, and why they happened and where we are now.
- Understand the history of bilingual education by learning the fight for equality and the importance of bilingual education programs, and comprehending biases.
- Understand the Highlight important figures and their theories in the field of language and education.
