What have been the policies of the Department of Education regarding the teaching of English in the past 114 years?
By joanneocasio
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Dr. Joahn Eaton and Victor Clark establish that the teacher from Puerto Rico should learn English. Those teacher whow were prepared will have preference to be contracted.
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It is created the Department of Public Instruction with an earmarked commissioner.
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The educational policy was to conserve the Spanish and to adquire the English, the Spanish in the elementary levels and the English as a special subject. In high school all the subjects were taught in English and the Spanish was a special subject.
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It increased the English in the schools with the idea of establish it has an official language in the public schools of Puerto Rico.
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The Spanish is supresses. The English is used as a teaching method in all the grades in the schol system.
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This was th era that Miller was in the defense of the English and Jose de Diego in the defence of the Spanish.
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In this era came the lawyer Juan B. Huyke as Commissioner of Instruction. In this moment it was made more emphasis the use of English.
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The Commissioner in turn was Dr. Jose Padin, was the first one to state that Engkish was an foreign language from a pedagogical point of view and he fought to impose Spanish as a way for instruction. The English language was not abandom but it was given emphasis as a second language.
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Dr. Padin buts up his resignation. Commissioner Jose M . Gallardo was named Commissioner for Instruction. He tired to implant the bilbingual program but many piblic protest was held up in they did not permitted it.
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Again Spanish prevailed upto the sixth grade and English continued being a subject.
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Dr. Manuel Villaronga Commissioner of instruction, but end to this long debate of biligualism decreeing teaching of the venacularto all the levels of the public schools from 1949-50. This is the educational policy and linguistic that has prevailed upto now.
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In the United States was sign the law Bilingual Education or Title VII, sign by the President Johnson in January 2,1968.
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That is why the Department of Education and the Universities , have ask for funds to attened all students that comes fron the United States. This program is called Bilingual Education.
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In Puerto Rico was implanted under the goverment of the PP the bilingual projects in the school Padre Rufo and Papa Juan XXIII.
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The P.N.P. with the govener Carlos romero Barcelo , in 1984 the Program Bilingual Education was no more a program and past to be a project for the English Department.
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The Bilingual Education projects are again autonomous and in the month of September the secretary of Education Honorable Jose Arsenio Torres named a director for the Bilingual Education Program.
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It was use as a vernacular upto the nineth grade.