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Many young children in immigrant families do not have good access to health and education services.

Banish the cliché of the upwardly-mobile immigrant.

Using a comprehensive database of child care fatalities they created, Julia Wrigley and Joanna Dreby of the City University of New York Graduate Center found that child care fatalities are rarer than child fatalities outside of paid care.

FCD was incorporated as a voluntary agency in New York in 1899, and established as the Association for the Aid of Crippled Children (AACC) in 1908.

The Task Force on Early Childhood Education for Hispanics released a national report, Para Nuestros Niños: Expanding and Improving Early Education for Hispanics, in Washington, D.C. on March 8, 2007.

Following an upward swing that peaked in the early part of this decade, the progress being made improving American children’s quality of life has come to a standstill, according to the Foundation for Child Development’s 2007 Child and Youth Well-Being Index (CWI), an annual comprehensive measure of how children are faring in the United States.

This article is reprinted from the March/April 2007 issue of the Harvard Education Letter.

Twenty percent of children in the U.S. now live with at least one foreign born parent.