Immigrants & Dual Language Learners

Technical Reports Creating an Assessment of Literacy Skills for Three- and Four-Year-Olds Creating an Assessment of Math Skills for Three- and Four-Year-Olds These technical reports document the development of a continuous diagnostic and assessment system based on research on the developmental pathways in children’s learning of literacy and math to guide instruction.

The Foundation for Child Development’s New American Children (NAC) initiative builds knowledge about the well-being of children living in low-income immigrant families, how best to nurture and educate our newest Americans, and how to foster evidence-based policies and practices to enhance their life prospects.These key resources aim to inform policymakers, educators, researchers, and others about NAC issues.

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.

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.

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.

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 account for nearly one-fourth (24 percent) of all children as of 2010, and the vast majority (88 percent) are U.S. citizens.

Abstract Children from immigrant families are the fastest growing group of children in the United States.