The Strange Career of Bilingual Education in Texas, 1836-1981

by Carlos Kevin Blanton

Book Overview

Awarded the Texas State Historical Association's Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize; presented March 2005 Despite controversies over current educational practices, Texas boasts a rich and vibrant bilingual tradition-and not just for Spanish-English instruction, but for Czech, German, Polish, and Dutch as well. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Texas educational policymakers embraced, ignored, rejected, outlawed, then once again embraced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585446025
• ISBN13: 9781585446025
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"