Learning a New Land : : Immigrant Students in American Society /

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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
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Suárez-Orozco, Carola,
Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M.,
Todorova, Irina,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2021]
©2010
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (440 p.)
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Table of 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

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