CSET Subtest IV - World Language Latest Update 2024/2025 with Question and Answers Correctly Verified Graded A+

CSET Subtest IV - World Language Fourteen Amendment - CORRECT ANSWER - Established the constitutional basis for the educational rights of language minority students. Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954 - CORRECT ANSWER - Ordered desegregation of schools. Established the principle of equal educational opportunity for all students. Mendez vs. Westminster (preceded Brown by 9 years) - CORRECT ANSWER - Ended segregation of Mexican and Mexican American students in Orange County. Title VI Civil Rights Act, 1964 - CORRECT ANSWER - Prohibited discrimination in federally funded programs. Established the principle of equal opportunity for national origin minority groups. Bilingual Education Acts of 1968 & 1974. Also Title VII. (Chacon-Moscone Bilingual-Bicultural Ed. Act, 1974) - CORRECT ANSWER - Provided supplemental funding for schools to meet special educational needs of LEP students. Didn't specify methods of instruction. Established transitional bilingual educ. programs to meet the needs of LEP students. Program requirements follow federal guidelines for identification, program placement, and reclassification of students as FEP. May 25, 1970 Memorandum - CORRECT ANSWER - Prohibited the denial of access to educational programs because of a student's limited English proficiency. Equal Educational Opportunity Act, 1974 - CORRECT ANSWER - Provided definition of what constituted denial of equal educational opportunity. Lau vs. Nichols, 1970 - CORRECT ANSWER - Chinese student against San Francisco SD, states that students didn't receive equal education when taught in language they didn't understand. Result: Requires SD to provide equal access to the core curriculum for students whose primary language is not English. Castaneda vs. Pickard, 1981 - CORRECT ANSWER - Set the standards for the courts in examining programs for LEP students. To comply with federal law, local SD must have: a pedagogical plan for LEP students, sufficient qualified staff to implement the plan, and a system established to evaluate the program. Required to take appropriate action to overcome language barriers. Bilingual Education Act, 1981 - CORRECT ANSWER - Strengthened the obligations of SD to LEP. Proposition 227, 1998 - CORRECT ANSWER - Required SD to dismantle transitional bilingual programs that taught students literacy skills and academic content to LEP students in their L1 while they learned English. However, it had a provision allowing parents to apply for waivers allowing students to continue in Bil. Educ. under certain specified conditions. Williams vs. State of CA, - CORRECT ANSWER - Provisions that stated better bilingual education instruction was needed. State settled and is making change throughout the state. Separate Underlying Proficiency Theory (SUP) - CORRECT ANSWER - States that L1 proficiency and L2 proficiency are separate and not connected at all. Assumes that skills & content in L1 don't transfer to L2.