Mexican American Students History in Education

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Across
  1. 3. An important movement led by Cesar Chavez whose role in education lead to hundreds of student-led (mainly Mexican-American students) protests in California and across the US; Changed school policies to allow students to freely speak English in the classroom without being punished and appeared as the first race/ethnicity identity checkbox on US forms
  2. 7. The official language in the US
  3. 9. What Treaty was signed between Mexico and the US that allowed for the purchase of 13 states in the SouthWest (Miguel & Valencia, 1998)
  4. 11. is One of the most common languages in the US; the most commonly learned or acquired language in the US
  5. 12. The type of public schools where Mexican-American students were allowed to attend during the 1900s (Donato & Hanson, 2019)
  6. 15. California School District sued for discrimination (Wollenberg, 1974) & (Miguel & Valencia, 1998)
  7. 16. The Educational Act passed in 1968 allowed for schools across the US to implement classroom instruction in English and another language (Donnadieu, 2018)
  8. 17. Father who sued California School Districts in 1947; Supreme Court ruled in their favor (Wollenberg, 1974) & (Miguel & Valencia, 1998)
Down
  1. 1. Ways bilingual practices and people are valued or devalued depending upon the racialized identity of the language user rather than the user’s actual linguistic practices falling short of a particular—and arbitrary—standard ( Flores & Rosa, 2015): racialized language influenced by a colonial perspective.
  2. 2. State today still bans Bilingual Education; teaches an English-Only curriculum (Donnadieu, 2018)
  3. 4. An important part of a student's identity is often mispronounced or Anglicized (Marrun, 2018)
  4. 5. Main reason why Mexican-American students were placed in segregated schooling
  5. 6. Presidential administration re-sparked many issues including Anti-Mexicanism (Smith et al., 2015)
  6. 8. Biased IQ testing led to most Mexican-American being labeled as students in this group (Blanton, 2003)
  7. 10. Essential part of protests done in California schools and across the US (Valencia & Black, 2018)
  8. 13. DREAM Goal that leads to an increase in the influx of Mexican immigrants arriving in the US during the 1920s (Wollenberg, 1974)
  9. 14. Testing for students in the later 1800s and early 1900s for correct placement in schools and grade levels; was historically seen as discriminatory and racially biased (Blanton, 2003)