Mexican American Students History in Education
Across
- 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
- 7. The official language in the US
- 9. What Treaty was signed between Mexico and the US that allowed for the purchase of 13 states in the SouthWest (Miguel & Valencia, 1998)
- 11. is One of the most common languages in the US; the most commonly learned or acquired language in the US
- 12. The type of public schools where Mexican-American students were allowed to attend during the 1900s (Donato & Hanson, 2019)
- 15. California School District sued for discrimination (Wollenberg, 1974) & (Miguel & Valencia, 1998)
- 16. The Educational Act passed in 1968 allowed for schools across the US to implement classroom instruction in English and another language (Donnadieu, 2018)
- 17. Father who sued California School Districts in 1947; Supreme Court ruled in their favor (Wollenberg, 1974) & (Miguel & Valencia, 1998)
Down
- 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. State today still bans Bilingual Education; teaches an English-Only curriculum (Donnadieu, 2018)
- 4. An important part of a student's identity is often mispronounced or Anglicized (Marrun, 2018)
- 5. Main reason why Mexican-American students were placed in segregated schooling
- 6. Presidential administration re-sparked many issues including Anti-Mexicanism (Smith et al., 2015)
- 8. Biased IQ testing led to most Mexican-American being labeled as students in this group (Blanton, 2003)
- 10. Essential part of protests done in California schools and across the US (Valencia & Black, 2018)
- 13. DREAM Goal that leads to an increase in the influx of Mexican immigrants arriving in the US during the 1920s (Wollenberg, 1974)
- 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)