1930's Education | Tireman, Loyd S. 1896-1959

PIONEER IN BILINGUAL EDUCATION

Pioneer.

During the 1930s Loyd S. Tireman conducted some of the first bilingual education experiments in the United States. At the San Jose Demonstration and Experimental School in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, and later at the Nambe Community School in Nambe, New Mexico, he developed new methods of teaching reading, bicultural education, and community relations. For thirty-two years he was among the leading American educators who organized bilingual educational programs in the face of much prejudice and opposition.

Background.

Tireman was born in Orchard, Iowa, in 1896. The farming community in which he was raised emphasized quality education and tied the schools closely to the local community. For Iowans of that time good schools produced good citizens, and community interest in education was high. Tireman benefited from this attention, graduating from Fayette High School in...