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Cynthia Benally; Daniel Piper – Bilingual Research Journal, 2024
Using a sociocultural approach with Indigenous epistemology, we examine language policies related to Lau. We researched how Lau impacted Native language policies through the "Sinajini v. Board of Education of San Juan School District." Native education rights are embedded in treaty rights. As such, Native students have unique statuses…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Educational Legislation, Indigenous Knowledge, Language Minorities
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Reyes, Reynaldo, III; Villarreal, Emiliano – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2016
Our current high-stakes accountability system for too long has allowed officials in positions of power and oversight to discard students viewed as too much of a liability as a practice of policy and pedagogy. This practice especially has altered how English learners are taught and the lens through which they are viewed. The authors present how a…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Hispanic American Students, Educational Discrimination, Educational Legislation
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Koyama, Jill; Kania, Brian – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2014
In the United States (US), an increase in standardization, quantification, competition, and large-scale comparison--cornerstones of neoliberal accountability--have been accompanied by devices of transparency, through which various forms of school data are made available to the public. Such public reporting, we are told by politicians and education…
Descriptors: Accountability, Politics, Politics of Education, Educational Policy
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Hakuta, Kenji – Educational Researcher, 2011
This article describes one researcher's journey as an experimental psycholinguist through changes in practice and policy in the education of English language learners in the United States from the 1970s to the present day. The development of key debates on issues such as bilingualism, language of instruction, and the inclusion of English language…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning, Educational Change
Wright, Wayne E. – Education Policy Research Unit, 2005
This brief details the history of the federal government's stance with language minority students, and analyzes the implications of changes to its guiding principles made by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001. With every federal re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act prior to 2001, the importance of bilingual…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Bilingual Education
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Lapayese, Yvette V. – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2005
Teacher insurgency is on the rise as critical educators refuse to accept the authoritarianism of English-only reforms by struggling to undermine current educational policies while at the same time advancing alternatives. Federal hijacking of language policies -- presently manifested by the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) -- is being met with…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Hispanic Americans, Educational Change, Resistance to Change