SPED 08130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Relative Risk, Calp, Melting Pot
31 Jan 2017
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Schools are becoming increasingly more diverse with time (graph showing data pg 58 and 59) Public schools enrolled 49. 4 million students in the 2010-2011 school year, where 25. 9 million (52. 4%) were white and the rest were students of color. Students of color: a broad term that encompasses students from african american, hispanic, English language learner (ell), english learner (el), limited english proficient (lep), or. Language minority students: students learning english as their second language: majority of these people speak spanish. In the 1800s the country was composed of people from many other countries making non- End of 1900s immigrants from southern, central, and eastern europe were mainly catholic began arriving. Nativism: a strong opposition to immigration, which is seen as a threat to maintaining a country"s dominant culture (many thinking this way were immigrants themselves) wanting to. Newer immigrants were treated with suspicion and distrust, instruction in languages other than.
