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Thought and Language
Lev Vygotsky's book, Thought and Language, is brought to the English speaking language for the first time. This is very important to multicultural education because his theory was pushing the thought of social interaction. Interaction between cultures is extremely crucial to society and it had to start somewhere. -
Bilingual Public School
Large numbers of Cuban immigrant children arrived in Miami after the Cuban Revolution. A school, Coral Way, started the first bilingual/bicultural public school. This is important because it provided schooling to bilingual students without having to pay for it. -
Immigration Act of 1965
Lyndon Johnson signs the Immigration Act of 1965. This allowed Asians and Latin Americans to immigrate to the United States. The effect of this was creating much more diverse classrooms, allowing that multicultural education. -
Equality of Educational Opportunity Study
The Equality of Educational Opportunity Study is created in response to provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This allowed the busing of African American students to reach that desegregation of schools. Allowing the busing of blacks to white schools created more multicultural education in school. -
Bilingual Education Act
The Bilingual Education Act becomes a law. The Bilingual Education Act made it mandatory to provide bilingual education programs in schools. This is important because a lot of multicultural education is not possible without ELL students. -
Equal Educational Opportunities Act
The Equal Educational Opportunities Act is passed. This prohibited the discrimination in schools and made schools take action to overcome the barriers of discrimination. Protecting rights of LEP students. -
Emergency Immigrant Education Act
The Emergency Immigrant Education Act is created to give services without cost to districts to immigrant students. This helped promote more multicultural education because the teachers would need to understand where these immigrant students are coming from. -
NCLB
No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is signed into law by President George W. Bus. This replaces the Bilingual Education Act of 196. NCLB ensures that regardless of race, religion, sex, etc. no child will be left behind in their education. Including all the immigrants that create multicultural education. -
IDEA
The Individuals with Disabilities Improvement Act is created. This ensures an extra push with help in IEPs and the RTI approach. This is extremely important with multicultural education because a lot of these students are on some kind of plan based on their culture. -
A New Minority
As schools opened, a demographic milestone is reached: minority students enrolled in K-12 public school classrooms outnumber non-Hispanic Caucasians. This is showing a huge movement for multicultural education.
