Immigration and education : the crisis and the opportunities / David W. Stewart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stewart, David Wood, 1929-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children of immigrants--Education--United States.

Children of immigrants.

Children of immigrants--Education.

Children of immigrants--Education--Social aspects.

United States.

Children of immigrants--Education--Social aspects--United States.

Multicultural education--United States.

Multicultural education.

Education, Bilingual--United States.

Education, Bilingual.

Physical Description:

xiii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Lexington Books ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, [1993]

Summary:

The level of immigration to the United States has never been higher, with more than a million immigrants, legal and illegal, entering every year. This new immigration is placing unique demands upon schools, colleges, vocational training centers, and adult education agencies. Cities and towns across the nation are straining to educate ever-larger numbers of immigrants, whose needs are often very different from native-born Americans. Educating these diverse groups is, however, difficult - and for urban school districts, whose resource bases are dimininshing, grappling with these issues presents a vital social problem. David Stewart analyzes these issues in detail, illustrating that the root of these difficulties lies in the absence of coordination between the federal government's immigration policy and related education policies at the federal, state, and local levels. Stewart calls the Congressional immigration committees to task for giving insufficient attention to the educational needs of immigrants and urges larger and more timely federal funding for local immigrant education programs.

Contents:

Through (or around) the golden doors : a history in brief

The dynamics of immigration

The ABCs of immigration law and how it works

Immigrant education and the courts

Refugees : special needs and issues in education

Out of the shadows and into the classroom : educating illegal and newly legal immigrants

Schools : pressures on a weak institution

Schools and immigrant children : creative responses

Teaching and accommodating diverse cultures

Troubles and some ways out of them

Adult education for immigrants : curriculum, sponsorship, instruction

Learning English

Bilingual education as an educational option

The politics of language in education : the law and the players

Issues surrounding bilingual education

Immigrant student performance

Higher education : the immigrant challenge

Financing immigrant education

The politics of immigration and education

Diversity, unity, opportunity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-266) and index.

ISBN:

0669245801

9780669245806

OCLC:

26852448