Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 29,9 MB
Release : 2006-05-12
Category :
ISBN : 9789264023611
Drawing on data from the PISA 2003 survey, this report examines the performance of students with immigrant backgrounds and compares it to that of their native counterparts.
Author : Blake R. Silver
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 29,25 MB
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 1009408259
Explores the higher educational journeys of students of immigrant origin, providing policy, practice, and research implications.
Author : Michael Sadowski
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 39,49 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 161250518X
By 2040, more than 30 percent of students in the United States will be immigrants or the children of immigrants. What factors can help these young people thrive in school, despite the many obstacles they face? And how can school staff best support immigrant students’ academic and personal success? In Portraits of Promise, educators hear from the ultimate experts—successful newcomer students. Drawing on the students’ own stories, the book highlights the kinds of support and resources that help students engage positively with school culture, establish supportive peer networks, form strong bonds with teachers, manage competing expectations from home and school, and navigate the challenges of high-stakes testing and the college application process.
Author : Michael Sadowski
Publisher : Youth Development and Educatio
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,2 MB
Release : 2013
Category : EDUCATION
ISBN : 9781612505169
By 2040, more than 30% of students in the US will be immigrants or the children of immigrants. What factors can help these young people thrive in school? And how can school staff best support immigrant students? Drawing on the students' own stories, this book highlights thesupport and resources that help students engage positively with school culture, establish supportive peer networks, form strong bonds with teachers, manage competing expectations, and navigate the challenges of high-stakes testing and the college application process.
Author : Jill Casner-Lotto
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 18,9 MB
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 147585255X
Community colleges serve as a critical gateway to English-language instruction, higher education, workforce training, and civic engagement for many immigrants and refugees looking to gain an economic foothold in the labor market and integrate into the social fabric of their communities. Coming from various walks of life with different goals and aspirations, immigrants and refugees have turned to community colleges to help them further their education, prepare for citizenship, or launch new careers. At a time when our nation is facing bitter political divides over its immigration policies and gridlock at the federal level, this book tells a different story: It showcases the exemplary initiatives of community colleges and their partners working together at local and state levels to integrate immigrants and refugees into the economic, social, and cultural fabric of our communities and our country, and it illustrates the various ways immigrant and refugee students enrich campus life, strengthen communities, and benefit our economy. This book focuses on two key components of successful immigrant and refugee integration: multisector partnerships that have been essential for increasing immigrant and refugee students’ college and career readiness and assuring their transition to further education, training, or jobs; and strategies related to replicating and scaling best-practice models and the policy implications involved.
Author : Jill Casner-Lotto
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 23,94 MB
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 1475847262
Community colleges serve as a critical gateway to English-language instruction, higher education, workforce training, and civic engagement for many immigrants and refugees looking to gain an economic foothold in the labor market and integrate into the social fabric of their communities. Coming from various walks of life with different goals and aspirations, immigrants and refugees have turned to community colleges to help them further their education, prepare for citizenship, or launch new careers. At a time when our nation is facing bitter political divides over its immigration policies and gridlock at the federal level, this book tells a different story: It showcases the exemplary initiatives of community colleges and their partners working together at local and state levels to integrate immigrants and refugees into the economic, social, and cultural fabric of our communities and our country, and it illustrates the various ways immigrant and refugee students enrich campus life, strengthen communities, and benefit our economy. This book shares the perspectives of community college CEOs and examines the role of leadership in adopting institution-wide strategies and allocating resources that have advanced immigrant and refugee integration on campus and in the community. We also learn how front-line practitioners make those strategies work through educational and career pathways that have enabled immigrants and refugees to pursue their academic and career goals and contribute to the economic prosperity and cultural vibrancy of their communities.
Author :
Publisher : Coalition
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 19,64 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN :
This report highlights selected schools and their collaborative efforts in pulling educators, families, and communities together to support a particular school's success and the well-being of its immigrant students. The report documents promising practices, but also places these efforts in broader contexts, both practical and theoretical. These practices illustrate how immigrant student issues are inseparable from broader and deeper issues of innovation and reform in public school education. Specific areas that these programs address are the following: creative approaches to classroom learning; helping students to take charge of their own learning; innovative actions that make schools more inclusive; efforts that link learning with strong home, school, and community ties; and new ways of educating educators and conducting professional development that respond to the need for educating for a diverse world. The final section examines two primary themes found in these practices: starting with the learner and using schools as strategic sites for collaboration and change. Appendixes contain research methodology, a glossary of terms, information on the National Coalition of Advocates for Students, a list of educational entitlements for all children, and a list of selected readings by subject area. (CM)
Author : William Perez
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 35,54 MB
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 1000971341
Winner of the CEP Mildred Garcia Award for Exemplary ScholarshipAbout 2.4 million children and young adults under 24 years of age are undocumented. Brought by their parents to the US as minors—many before they had reached their teens—they account for about one-sixth of the total undocumented population. Illegal through no fault of their own, some 65,000 undocumented students graduate from the nation's high schools each year. They cannot get a legal job, and face enormous barriers trying to enter college to better themselves—and yet America is the only country they know and, for many, English is the only language they speak. What future do they have? Why are we not capitalizing, as a nation, on this pool of talent that has so much to contribute? What should we be doing?Through the inspiring stories of 16 students—from seniors in high school to graduate students—William Perez gives voice to the estimated 2.4 million undocumented students in the United States, and draws attention to their plight. These stories reveal how—despite financial hardship, the unpredictability of living with the daily threat of deportation, restrictions of all sorts, and often in the face of discrimination by their teachers—so many are not just persisting in the American educational system, but achieving academically, and moreover often participating in service to their local communities. Perez reveals what drives these young people, and the visions they have for contributing to the country they call home.Through these stories, this book draws attention to these students’ predicament, to stimulate the debate about putting right a wrong not of their making, and to motivate more people to call for legislation, like the stalled Dream Act, that would offer undocumented students who participate in the economy and civil life a path to citizenship. Perez goes beyond this to discuss the social and policy issues of immigration reform. He dispels myths about illegal immigrants’ supposed drain on state and federal resources, providing authoritative evidence to the contrary. He cogently makes the case—on economic, social, and constitutional and moral grounds—for more flexible policies towards undocumented immigrants. If today’s immigrants, like those of past generations, are a positive force for our society, how much truer is that where undocumented students are concerned?
Author : Encarnacion Garza
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 33,87 MB
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317252896
This book elucidates the amazing life journeys of academically successful migrant students. Offering vivid case studies of successful students, this book helps teachers, education students, and researchers understand the factors that lead to success by minority language children. The authors develop the lessons of student success stories into recommendations for schools and for educational policy. Readers gain from this book the stories of real students, the challenges they faced, and the means by which students and schools may overcome language and cultural barriers to educational success.
Author : Jessica Lander
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 30,19 MB
Release : 2022-10-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807006661
A landmark work that weaves captivating stories about the past, present, and personal into an inspiring vision for how America can educate immigrant students Setting out from her classroom, Jessica Lander takes the reader on a powerful and urgent journey to understand what it takes for immigrant students to become Americans. A compelling read for everyone who cares about America’s future, Making Americans brims with innovative ideas for educators and policy makers across the country. Lander brings to life the history of America’s efforts to educate immigrants through rich stories, including these: -The Nebraska teacher arrested for teaching an eleven-year-old boy in German who took his case to the Supreme Court -The California families who overturned school segregation for Mexican American children -The Texas families who risked deportation to establish the right for undocumented children to attend public schools She visits innovative classrooms across the country that work with immigrant-origin students, such as these: -A school in Georgia for refugee girls who have been kept from school by violence, poverty, and natural disaster -Five schools in Aurora, Colorado, that came together to collaborate with community groups, businesses, a hospital, and families to support newcomer children. -A North Carolina school district of more than 100 schools who rethought how they teach their immigrant-origin students She shares inspiring stories of how seven of her own immigrant students created new homes in America, including the following: -The boy who escaped Baghdad and found a home in his school’s ROTC program -The daughter of Cambodian genocide survivors who dreamed of becoming a computer scientist -The orphaned boy who escaped violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and created a new community here Making Americans is an exploration of immigrant education across the country told through key historical moments, current experiments to improve immigrant education, and profiles of immigrant students. Making Americans is a remarkable book that will reshape how we all think about nurturing one of America’s greatest assets: the newcomers who enrich this country with their energy, talents, and drive.
