[Linganth] Prop 58

Grace Reynolds gr3ck at virginia.edu
Thu Oct 20 21:22:45 UTC 2016


Likely already on your radar, but Woolard has a great 1989 piece up this general alley:

Woolard, Kathryn A. "Sentences in the language prison: The rhetorical structuring of an American language policy debate." American Ethnologist16, no. 2 (1989): 268-278.



> On Oct 20, 2016, at 4:52 PM, Sarah Benor <sbenor.huc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Do people who teach in California have any suggestions for teaching
> surrounding Proposition 58? This statewide proposition allows for
> dual-language immersion programs, reversing Proposition 227 from 1998,
> which eliminated most bilingual education in the state. I'm trying to
> decide how to deal with this in my class "Language, Race, and Identity
> in the United States Today" at USC. I'm considering either an in-class
> debate or a service learning project where students would write op-eds
> about it.
> 
> Here's more info about the proposition:
> http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/58/
> 
> Thanks,
> Sarah Bunin Benor
> Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies
> Hebrew Union College
> University of Southern California
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