[Linganth] Prop 58

[Richard Senghas]

In Finegan and Rickford's 2004 edited volume, Language in the USA: Themes for the Twenty-first Century, 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 voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/58/<http://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/en/propositions/58/>) might be helpful.

Helps highlight what happened with the 1998 CA Prop. 227, and what is trying to be rectified now.

-Richard

Richard J Senghas, PhD
Immediate Past Chair of the Faculty & Academic Senate
Professor of Anthropology
Sonoma State University

On Oct 20, 2016, at 1:52 PM, Sarah Benor <sbenor.huc at gmail.com<mailto: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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