Overview |Equality of Educational Opportunity II

Readings

Spring, Joel (2016) American Education. 5 Equality of Educational Opportunity: Race, Gender, and Special Needs (122-147)

Spring, Joel (2016) American Education. 6 Student Diversity (148-178)

History of the Present

A history of the present is less concerned with understanding the past than with developing a critical understanding of the present. A history of the present endeavors to achieve this understanding by disclosing the historical, economic, political and/or cultural circumstances through which a current issue has emerged and by identifying those circumstances upon which that issue still depends.

  • School Segregation today

  • Current Immigration Crisis and Dreamers | Students with Undocumented Status

  • English Language Only

  • Inclusion — the integration of all children with disabilities

Assignment descriptions and dues dates

The Struggle for Equality of Educational Opportunity

  • Native American

  • Hispanic/Latino

  • Women

  • Children with Special Needs

  • Bilingual Education

Puerto Ricans — 1898, the Spanish -American War

Native Americans

US Legal Decisions, Congressional Acts, & Student Diversity

  1. The Naturalization Act of 1790

  2. Civilization Fund Act of 1819

  3. Indian Removal Act (1830)

  4. Civil Rights Act (1866)

  5. Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

  6. Texas Court Ruling on Mexican Americans (1897)

  7. Immigration Act of 1924

  8. Mendez et al. v. Westminster School District of Orange County (1946)

  9. Delgado v. Bastrop Independent School District (1948)

  10. McCarran-Walter Act of 1952

  11. Immigration Act of 1965

  12. Bilingual Education Act of 1968

  13. Cisernos v. Corpus Christi Independent School District (1970)

  14. Higher Education Act of 1972

  15. Indian Education Act of 1972

  16. Lau v. Nichols (1974)

  17. Education for All Handicapped Children Act 1975

  18. Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975

  19. Grove City College v. Bell 1983

  20. Civil Rights Restoration Act 1987

  21. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act 1990