Texas Foreign Language Association

History of the Texas Foreign Language Association

• Author(s): Texas Foreign Language Association, Texas State Teachers Association

• Categories: Language and languages

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1985
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Bulletin

• Author(s): Texas Foreign Language Association

• Categories: Language and languages

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1961
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• Publisher: Unknown

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What Do We Know about Foreign Language Instruction?

• Author(s): Texas Education Agency

• Categories: Languages, Modern

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1962
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Hearings

• Author(s): United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1967
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• Publisher: Unknown

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

• Author(s): Carlos Kevin Blanton

• Categories: Education

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2007
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• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

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 this tradition. In The Strange Career of Bilingual Education in Texas, author Carlos Blanton traces the educational policies and their underlying rationales, from Stephen F. Austin's proposal in the 1830s to "Mexicanize" Anglo children by tea...