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Samuel A. Kirk coined the term "learning disability" when dicussing childen with preceptual disorders at a conference in Chicago.
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...becomes the first bilingual and bicultural public school in the US
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Now called the Learning Disabilities Association of America
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Law calling for an effort to meet the unique needs of American Indian and Alaska Native students.
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Supreme court determines that the San Francisco Schol District failed to provide proper english language instruction for Chinese American students with limited English proficiency.
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Signed by president Bill Clinton, increased funding and drop-out prevention efforts for bilingual and immigrant students.
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Written by James Banks, this book had a major impact on the already growing amount of scholarships regarding multiculturalism
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Provides low and middle income students access to higher education.
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The law does not require these schools to deny admission or report the names of illegally immigrated students, but is still declared unconstitutional.
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Published it may, this reported stated what many schools were already beginning to see; a large increase in Latino students, accompanied by an increase in segregation due to race and poverty in bigger metropolitan areas.
