Immigrant+and+Bilingual+Education+(early+1900s)+B

How are immigrants educated?
 * Immigrant/Bilingual Education in the early 20th Century in the United States of America **


 * Bilingual Education was banned by Congress.
 * It was seen that immigrants needed to be "Americanized"
 * After the start of WWI, fear of immigrants was on the rise, therefore foreign languages were feared greatly by citizens especially German.
 * Before 1917, over 60,000 (4%) students received some part of their education in German.
 * In over 30 states, it was required that if one was not able to speak or read English, it was required to go to public evening school.
 * These classes were mainly filled with male immigrants
 * Students were thrown into English only enviroments.
 * No matter at what age, many were placed in first grade.
 * This led to many early drop-outs.
 * After being tested in their non-native language, an exorbinant amount of students were placed in special education programs.
 * Many states also made it mandatory to have a high level of English before naturalization.

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