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Learning a new land : immigrant students in American society / Carola Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco, Irina Todorova.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Suárez-Orozco, Carola, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children of immigrants--Education--United States.
- Children of immigrants.
- Academic achievement--United States.
- Academic achievement.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (440 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the long view on immigrant students
- Academic engagement and performance
- Networks of relationships
- Less-than-optimal schools
- The challenge of learning English
- Portraits of declining achievers
- Portraits of low achievers
- Portraits of improvers
- Portraits of high achievers
- Conclusion: immigration policy dilemmas.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674044111
- 0674044118
- OCLC:
- 1243311676
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