TY  - BOOK
AU  - Suárez-Orozco,Carola
AU  - Suárez-Orozco,Marcelo M.
AU  - Todorova,Irina
TI  - Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society 
SN  - 9780674044111
U1  - 371.826/9120973 22
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Academic achievement
KW  - United States
KW  - Children of immigrants
KW  - Education
KW  - EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables --; Figures --; Introduction: The Long View on Immigrant Students --; 1 Academic Engagement and Performance --; 2 Networks of Relationships --; 3 Less-Than-Optimal Schools --; 4 The Challenge of Learning English --; 5 Portraits of Declining Achievers --; 6 Portraits of Low Achievers --; 7 Portraits of Improvers --; 8 Portraits of High Achievers --; Conclusion: Immigration Policy Dilemmas --; Notes --; References --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access
N2  - One child in five in America is the child of immigrants, and their numbers increase each year. Based on an extraordinary interdisciplinary study that followed 400 newly arrived children from the Caribbean, China, Central America, and Mexico for five years, this book provides a compelling account of the lives, dreams, academic journeys, and frustrations of these youngest immigrants
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674044111
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674044111
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674044111/original
ER  -