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Sears, David O.; Huddy, Leonie – 1987
A study of non-Hispanic attitudes about bilingual education had two goals: (1) to apply symbolic politics theory to bilingual education and (2) to test the theory's assumption that the symbolic meaning of an attitude object determines which symbolic predisposition it evokes. A national sample of 1,170 non-Hispanics were surveyed via telephone…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, English (Second Language), Federal Aid, Hispanic Americans