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Immigrants & Dual Language Learners
- Who’s Left Behind? Immigrant Children in High- and Low-LEP Schools
June 17, 2010 Seventy percent of LEP students in kindergarten through fifth grade are enrolled in only 10 percent of the country’s public elementary schools.
- Journals Publish Two Evaluations of the Tulsa, OK Prekindergarten Program
June 17, 2010 Research on Tulsa, Oklahoma’s universal PK program finds that the PK experience enhances the school readiness of young children.
- Children of Immigrant Families in Eight Affluent Countries
June 15, 2010 The report presents internationally comparable data on the situation of immigrant children in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States — that together include almost 40 percent of all persons in the world living outside their countries of birth.
- Dual-Language Programs in the U.S.: An Alternative to Monocultural, Monolingual Education
June 15, 2010 This paper compares Spanish-speaking Kindergartners to other Kindergartners in terms of three teacher characteristics: The use of Spanish for instruction in the classroom; teachers’ rating of the importance of knowing English for Kindergarten readiness; and years the teacher has taught Kindergarten.
- Language as a Barrier to Health Care for New York City: Haitian, Russian and Latino Perspectives
June 15, 2010 More than half of New York City’s Haitian, Russian, and Latino first-generation immigrants interviewed for a new report by The New York Academy of Medicine say that language barriers lead to reduced quality care for their children, prevent them from fully using healthcare services, and leave them dissatisfied with their medical care.
- Reaching All Children?: Understanding Early Care and Education Participation Among Immigrant Families
June 15, 2010 As communities strive to ensure the success of all children, it is important that policymakers and early education professionals identify and respond to the needs of immigrant families so that teachers, schools, and early childhood programs are prepared to serve these children.
- The New Demography of America’s Schools: Immigration and the No Child Left Behind Act
June 14, 2010 The share of students in kindergarten through 12th grade with a foreign-born parent tripled from 6 percent in 1970 to 19 percent in 2000.
- The Health and Well-Being of Young Children of Immigrants
June 14, 2010 Eight key themes emerge from this research of children younger than six living in families with at least one immigrant parent.