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<div class="">In Finegan and Rickford's 2004 edited volume, <i class="">Language in the USA: Themes for the Twenty-first Century,</i> there are a pair of chapters that might be helpful: Terrence G. Wiley's "Language planning, language policy, and the English-Only
Movement" and Lily Wong Fillmore's "Language in education" make a good pair, even a dozen years later. Combining those with an examination of the actual language changes proposed in the Text of Proposed Law (available as PDF online at
<a href="http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/58/" class="">voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/58/</a>) might be helpful. </div>
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<div class="">Helps highlight what happened with the 1998 CA Prop. 227, and what is trying to be rectified now. </div>
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<div class="">-Richard <br class="">
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Richard J Senghas, PhD
<div class="">Immediate Past Chair of the Faculty & Academic Senate</div>
<div class="">Professor of Anthropology</div>
<div class="">Sonoma State University</div>
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On Oct 20, 2016, at 1:52 PM, Sarah Benor <<a href="mailto:sbenor.huc@gmail.com" class="">sbenor.huc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="">Do people who teach in California have any suggestions for teaching</span><br class="">
<span class="">surrounding Proposition 58? This statewide proposition allows for</span><br class="">
<span class="">dual-language immersion programs, reversing Proposition 227 from 1998,</span><br class="">
<span class="">which eliminated most bilingual education in the state. I'm trying to</span><br class="">
<span class="">decide how to deal with this in my class "Language, Race, and Identity</span><br class="">
<span class="">in the United States Today" at USC. I'm considering either an in-class</span><br class="">
<span class="">debate or a service learning project where students would write op-eds</span><br class="">
<span class="">about it.</span><br class="">
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<span class="">Here's more info about the proposition:</span><br class="">
<span class=""><a href="http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/58/" class="">http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/58/</a></span><br class="">
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<span class="">Thanks,</span><br class="">
<span class="">Sarah Bunin Benor</span><br class="">
<span class="">Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Studies</span><br class="">
<span class="">Hebrew Union College</span><br class="">
<span class="">University of Southern California</span><br class="">
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