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  Immigration Then and Now: Old Face, New Story

  1/5/09 - Rene Galindo, Equity Alliance at ASU

  This paper is one of the brief practitioner oriented pamphlets called On Points produced by the National Institute for Urban School Improvement (NIUSI). The current wave of immigration is creating such an upheaval, and caught in this emotional jumble are first generation immigrant students. These students are being raised and educated in the United States and are developing understandings of their place within the nation and what it means to be an American. This On Point is designed to...

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  All our children? The health and education of children of immigrants: 2007 annual report

  1/5/09 - Foundation for Child Development,

  "The centerpiece of the Foundation for Child Development's 2007 Annual Report, All Our Children? The Health and Education of Children of Immigrants is an essay by Alexandra Fuenmayor Starr. Ms. Starr writes about U.S. immigration policy for Slate, The New Republic, and The American Scholar. Her essay, "The Dividends of Investing Early: Why We Need to Help the Youngest Children of Immigrants," argues that young children of immigrants, over 90 percent of whom are citizens, will have a large...

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  Do immigrants differ from migrants? Disentangling the impact of mobility on High School completion and performance

  1/10/09 - Stiefel, L., Schwartz, A.E., Conger, D.

  While previous evidence finds that foreign-born students perform better than native-born students in their elementary and middle school years, policymakers and practitioners continue to raise concerns about educational outcomes of immigrants who come to the United States in their high school years. Are late entering students able to graduate from high school in a timely manner or do they fall behind? How does their success compare to late entering native-born students - that is, migrant...

• Immigration, Language, and Education: How Does Language Policy Structure Opportunity?

  1/1/09 - GÁNdara, Patricia, Rumberger, Russell W.

  Background/Context: According to U.S. Census figures, 11 million elementary and secondary students of immigrant families were enrolled in the public schools in October 2005, representing 20% of all students, and this figure is expected to grow in the coming years. Most of these students enter school as English learners (ELs), and most ELs have exceptionally low performance on measures of academic achievement and attainment. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: This article...

• Performance boosts in the classroom: Stereotype endorsement and prejudice moderate stereotype lift

  1/1/08 - Chatard, Armand, Selimbegović, Leila, Konan, Paul, Mugny, Gabriel

  The present study (N = 293) examined whether stereotype endorsement and prejudice moderate stereotype lift (i.e., a performance boost caused by the salience of a negative out-group stereotype in the testing situation). The stereotype in the focus of inquiry was the belief that immigrant students have lower intellectual ability than native students. French native high school students performed an intellectual test in a condition of low stereotype salience (the test was presented as assessing...

• School readiness of children of immigrants: Does parental involvement play a role?

  1/1/08 - Lahaie, Claudia

  Objectives: Using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey—Kindergarten Cohort, this article analyzes the link between parental involvement and the school readiness of children of immigrants. Methods: Multivariate regression models estimate the association between parental involvement and the school readiness in English proficiency and math scores of children of immigrants. They also estimate the impact of this association on the gap in math scores between children of...

• The academic trajectories of children of immigrants and their school environments

  1/1/08 - Han, Wen-Jui

  Data from approximately 14,000 children in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey--Kindergarten Cohort were analyzed to examine the associations between children's immigrant status and their academic trajectories from kindergarten to 3rd grade, with particular attention to the effects of school environments. Growth curve modeling results indicated that most children of Latin American origin improved their reading and math scores faster than non-Hispanic White children, thus narrowing their...

• Barriers to School Involvement: Are Immigrant Parents Disadvantaged?

  1/1/09 - Turney, Kristin, Kao, Grace

  Parental involvement at school offers unique opportunities for parents, and this school-based involvement has important implications for children's academic and behavioral outcomes. The authors used data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort (National Center for Education Statistics, 2001) to examine race and immigrant differences in barriers to parental involvement at school. Minority immigrant parents, compared with native-born parents, reported more barriers to...

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  Children of Immigrants: National and State Characteristics

  1/18/09 - Karina Fortuny, Randy Capps, Margaret Simms, Ajay Chaudry

  Accounting for 24% of children under age 5, the share of the school-age population who are children of immigrants will increase in the coming years. A brief from the Urban Institute describes the national and state characteristics of this subset of the U.S. population.

• Immigration from Mexico into the Math/Science Pipeline in American Education

  1/1/04 - Crosnoe, Robert, Lopez-Gonzalez, Lorena, Muller, Chandra

  The purpose of this study was to explore generational differences in math/science enrollment and achievement among Mexican-American students and the role of family and school contexts in these differences.We applied survey regression techniques to data from 12,020 adolescents in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.Native-born Mexican-American students had lower math/science enrollment than their peers, especially after differences in family and school contexts were taken...

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  Paying the price: The impact of immigration raids on America's children

  1/5/09 - Randy Capps, Rosa Maria Castañeda, Ajay Chaudry, Robert Santos

  "The primary goal of this paper is to go beyond the human interest stories reported in the media and provide a factual basis for discussing the impact of worksite enforcement operations on children with undocumented parents. The study focuses on children because they have strong claims to the protection of society, especially when they are citizens and integrated into their schools and communities, and the United States is the only country they have known and consider home. They also warrant...

• The roles of parenting styles and social capital in the school performance of immigrant Asian and Hispanic adolescents

  1/1/05 - Pong, Suet-ling, Hao, Lingxin, Gardner, Erica

  Objective: This study investigates the role of parenting styles and social capital (parental involvement, intergenerational closure, expectation, and trust) in accounting for school performance among ethnic groups and across immigrant generations. Methods: Using data from the Adolescent Health Survey, we estimate fixed-effects models to analyze students' grade-point averages. We compare three generations of Asian students and three generations of Hispanic students to the third-generation...

• Unpacking Immigration in Youths' Academic and Occupational Pathways

  1/1/06 - Tseng, Vivian

  This study sought to unpack how immigration is associated with youths' educational choices during the transition to college and adulthood. Surveys and school records were collected on 789 youth (ages 18–25) with Asian Pacific, Latino, African/Afro-Caribbean, and European backgrounds. The results indicated generational differences in educational choices, such that children of immigrants chose courses of study with higher math and science content than that of their peers with U.S.-born...

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  Why and how does source country matter? The effects of home countries and immigrant communities on foreign-born student achievement

  1/5/09 - Conger, D., Schwartz, A.E., Stiefel, L.

  Objective: This paper explores the effect of the economic conditions of source countries and the human capital characteristics of coethnic immigrant communities on foreign-born students' reading and math achievement. Methods: We use data on New York City public school foreign-born students from 39 countries merged with Census data on thecharacteristics of the city's immigrants, and United Nations data on the economic conditions of countries. We estimate regressions of student achievement on...

• Beyond High School: An Examination of Hispanic Educational Attainment

  1/1/00 - Jasinski, Jana L.

  Low educational attainment has been a barrier to the advancement of Hispanic Americans in the United States, and a number of explanations for this have been suggested. One group of explanations centers around Hispanic Americans' use and exposure to English. A second group of explanations focuses more on socioeconomic disadvantages facing this population. Much of the research that looks at educational attainment among Hispanic Americans, however, does not consider Hispanic group differences...

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  Considering Inclusion and the Preschool Education of Immigrant Children in the United States

  1/1/10 - Arzubiaga, Angela E. & Mulligan, Elaine M

  In this article, we take this viewpoint to discuss inclusion in the U. S. and the education of children in immigrant families. We make explicit some of the arguments in the inclusion field to draw parallels with conversations on the education of children in immigrant families. We also provide the landscape on children in immigrant families and preschool in the United States.