What was the primary purpose of the Bilingual Education Act in 1968?
a. To make children of immigrants literate in English
b. To create pockets of different languages throughout the country
c. To place immigrant children in separate classrooms so they would not bring down the academic performance of American children
d. To make both immigrant children and American children bilingual
A Correct Answer: To make children literate in English
Feedback for Correct Answer: It is the main purpose of the bill to bring millions of school children into the mainstream of American life and make them literate in the national language of the country in which they live: namely, English (Crawford, 2000, p. 88).
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