Chicano Pursuit Of Equality Of Education Study (1960-1980),

As we all known that the United States is a nation of immigrant, andMexican-immigrant plays an important role in the history of America immigration. Asthe biggest group in America immigration, Mexican-immigrant absolutely has made asignificant impact on education in the US.In the 1960-80s, American began to seek equality, so as to American education.In the 1960-70s, a lot of movements aimed at civil rights, racial equality,environmental degradation and Vietnam War had showed American began to seekequality in polity. In education file, there appeared series of reformation and acts, suchas Bilingual Education Movement, Head Start Program, Civil Rights Act of 1964,Elementary Education and Secondary Education of 1965; all those showed thatAmerican began to seek equality in education. We expect we can draw inspirationfrom the efforts of the seeking of education equality of Mexican-Americans.We analyze the cause of Mexican-Americans seeking education equality basedon seeking education equality, radicalism ideology, Civil Rights Movement and thestate of region, economy, policy and education of Mexican-Americans in the 1960s.Mexican-Americans were impacted by Negro Civil Rights Movement, andstarted“Together the Carnot Movement”in the 1960s aimed at racial equality. Themovement had succeeded for some equality rights for Mexican-Americans. So itplayed a significant role in seeking educational equality of Mexican-Americans.The United States is one of the oldest nations that implement bilingual education,and the history can date from before the nation established. The 1960s was the goldentime of developing bilingual education; Bilingual Education Movement was arepresentation. Bilingual education directed at English and Spanish, it represented thepursue of educational equality of national minority. The purpose of Bilingualeducation was to solve kinds of difficult of leaning in English-speaking schools forMexican-Americans.The United States put Bilingual Education Acts into practice. The Acts wasaimed at harmonize the relationship between the majority and the minority and solve kinds of difficult of leaning in English-speaking schools for adolescents that theirmother tongue was not English. The Acts had significant importance for the history ofbilingual education as it offers a legal judge for developing bilingual education.Mexican-Americans had a wish that keeping self-identity of their culture andlanguage and attempting to conform the society and culture of the majority at thesame time, and Bilingual Education Acts made their wish came true at a certainextent.In the end, Enlightenment on China’s pursuit of equality in education.