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  2. Anti-literacy laws in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1863 painting of a man reading the Emancipation Proclamation.. Educators and slaves in the South found ways to both circumvent and challenge the law. John Berry Meachum, for example, moved his school out of St. Louis, Missouri when that state passed an anti-literacy law in 1847, and re-established it as the Floating Freedom School on a steamship on the Mississippi River, which was beyond the ...

  3. Language education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This standard allows for the grouping of dialects into groups. These groups make up a "language" such as English, Spanish, and French. [5] Language in classrooms in generalized into one category to offer and exposes students to the basics and variety. Some classrooms may focus on one area on a "language" while others show multiple aspects of ...

  4. Education during the slave period in the United States

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    African-American preachers would often attempt to teach some of the slaves to read in secret, but there were very few opportunities for concentrated periods of instruction. Through spirituals , stories, and other forms of oral literacy , preachers, abolitionists, and other community leaders imparted valuable political, cultural, and religious ...

  5. Literacy in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards, as article. You can help. The talk page may contain suggestions. (June 2024) First Lady Barbara Bush with New York City school children at the UNESCO International Literacy Day celebration in 1989 (the same year that the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy was launched) Adult literacy in the United ...

  6. History of education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Some historians trace the origins of the American Revolution back to the Puritans teaching their children how to read. [2] [3] [4] The Puritans, almost immediately after arriving in America in 1630, set up schools. Children who did not attend school were taught at home. As a result, Americans were the most literate people in the world.

  7. Spanish bilingual education in California - Wikipedia

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    Escuela Popular, a Spanish–English dual immersion school in San Jose. Spanish bilingual education in California is the incorporation of the Spanish and English language to teach various subjects in primary education. Proposition 227 affected Spanish bilingual programs negatively by mandating that instruction be conducted "overwhelmingly in ...

  8. Opinion: America once valued life more than guns. How did ...

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    America has always had a gun problem, but never on this scale. Every day, 327 people are shot in the United States , more than a hundred of them fatally. And the numbers are rising.

  9. History of the Spanish language - Wikipedia

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    Because Old Spanish resembles the modern written language to a relatively high degree, a reader of Modern Spanish can learn to read medieval documents without much difficulty. The Spanish Royal Academy was founded in 1713, largely with the purpose of standardizing the language.