Bilingualism CQ7

Linguistic diversity was embraced with a few exceptions during the 18th and 19th centuries in the United States, and this was reflected on the bilingual schools at the time with German and other languages

TRUE

The Nationality Act of 1906 continued to promote the maintenance of minority languages among immigrants, which viewed their languages as a resource in the United States

FALSE

One of the consequences of World War 1 was an endorsement of a melting pot policy that promoted monolingual education in which all children were only instructed in English

TRUE

Both Meyer v. Nebraska and Farrington v. Tokushige were Supreme Court cases that respected the rights of individuals to private instruction in any language outside of the school system

TRUE

The 1958 National Defense Education Act and the 1964 Civil Rights Act all promoted equity among marginalized groups but with no attention to the teaching of languages in schools

FALSE

The Bilingual Education Act of 1967 established that the federal government should not be involved in bilingual education because it is up to the states

FALSE

The landmark Supreme court case Lau vs. Nichols found that students educated inEnglish submersion programs was a violation of the 14th amendment and Civil Rights Act of 1964

TRUE

The Lau Remedies, as a consequence of Lau v. Nichols was instrumental to establish strong dual language education programs in the U.S. to help minority language students maintain their heritage language

FALSE

The approved Proposition 58 in 2016 in California revoked California's 1998 Proposition227 that aimed to eliminate bilingual education programs in favor of promoting English learning via English instruction only

TRUE

No Child Left Behind (NCLB) authorized schools to implement bilingual education programs that supported emergent bilinguals' use of both languages to learn academic content

FALSE