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The Strange Career of Bilingual Education in Texas, 1836-1981
Carlos Kevin Blanton
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Despite controversies over current educational practices, Texas boasts a rich and vibrant bilingual tradition - and not just for Spanish-English instruction, but for Czech, German, Polish, and Dutch as well. Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Texas educational policymakers embraced, ignored, rejected, outlawed, and then once again embraced this tradition. In ""The Strange Career of Bilingual Education in Texas, 1836-1981"", Carlos Kevin Blanton traces the educational policies and their underlying rationales, from Stephen F. Austin's proposal in the 1830s to ""Mexicanize"" Anglo children by teaching them Spanish along with English and French, through the 1981 passage of ... Read more
Despite controversies over current educational practices, Texas boasts a rich and vibrant bilingual tradition - and not just for Spanish-English instruction, but for Czech, German, Polish, and Dutch as well. Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Texas educational policymakers embraced, ignored, rejected, outlawed, and then once again embraced this tradition. In ""The Strange Career of Bilingual Education in Texas, 1836-1981"", Carlos Kevin Blanton traces the educational policies and their underlying rationales, from Stephen F. Austin's proposal in the 1830s to ""Mexicanize"" Anglo children by teaching them Spanish along with English and French, through the 1981 passage of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Series
Fronteras Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
College Station, United States
ISBN
9781585446025
SKU
V9781585446025
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About Carlos Kevin Blanton
CARLOS-KEVIN BLANTON, associate professor of history at Texas A&M University, currently lives in Houston.
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