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- Immigrants and Welfare: The Impact of Welfare Reform on America’s Newcomers
August 30, 2011 The lore of the immigrant who comes to the United States to take advantage of our welfare system has a long history in America’s collective mythology, but it has little basis in fact.
- Moving to the Land of Milk and Cookies: Obesity Among the Children of Immigrants
August 30, 2011 The sons of immigrants to the United States suffer from alarmingly high levels of childhood obesity, according to this report by Foundation for Child Development Young Scholar Jennifer Van Hook.
- Immigration, Diversity, and Education
August 30, 2011 Editors Elena Grigorenko and Past President Ruby Takanishi present the first wave of studies about what is happening to young children from birth to age 10 living in immigrant families in the U.S. This volume complements a larger literature about the lives of adolescents and young adults who are part of immigrant families.
- Effectively Educating Pre-K-3rd English Language Learners (ELLs) in Montgomery County Public Schools
June 30, 2011 Despite rapid growth in its English Language Learner (ELL) population, Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) has been highly effective in improving outcomes for ELL students across the district.
- Children in Immigrant Families: Ensuring Opportunity for Every Child in America
March 7, 2011 Children in immigrant families account for nearly one-fourth (24 percent) of all children as of 2010, and the vast majority (88 percent) are U.S. citizens.
- Early Education Programs and Children of Immigrants: Learning Each Other’s Language
January 26, 2011 Abstract Children from immigrant families are the fastest growing group of children in the United States.
- A New Vision to Increase the Academic Achievement for English Language Learners and Immigrant Students
January 26, 2011 Abstract This paper analyzes the challenges and opportunities posed by today’s education reform debate for the early education and language learning of immigrant, limited English proficient, and English language learner students 3 to 8 years old.
- Children of Immigrants: Economic Well-Being
January 26, 2011 Abstract This data brief is the fourth in a series that profiles children of immigrants using up-to-date census data and other sources.