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Learning a New Land : Immigrant Students in American Society / Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Carola Suárez-Orozco, Irina Todorova.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (440 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674044111
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 371.826/9120973 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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