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Not all Bilingual Education Policies are the Same: Learning from History to Build the Future

Sun, April 12, 11:45am to 1:15pm PDT (11:45am to 1:15pm PDT), Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 308A

Session Type: Symposium

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This symposium convenes leaders and researchers from Indiana, Massachusetts, Washington, and Wisconsin to examine the history of state bilingual education policies, the current context and contested spaces, and implications for the future of bilingual education. As national policies have swung from promoting multilingualism as a ‘superpower’ to pushing for English-only programs, state-level policies that promote the assets of bilingualism take on added weight as spaces for disruption. Authors will examine how historical bilingual education policies across their states have contributed to building asset-based frameworks, and discuss implications for both current and future practice: from practitioners contesting deficit frameworks embedded in some policies, to using asset-based language embedded in other policies to implement new guidance and pedagogies like translanguaging.

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