Learning a New Land : Immigrant Students in American Society / Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Carola Suárez-Orozco, Irina Todorova.
Suárez-Orozco, Carola, author.; Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M., author.; Todorova, Irina, author.
2021
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Title
Learning a New Land : Immigrant Students in American Society / Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Carola Suárez-Orozco, Irina Todorova.
Author
Suárez-Orozco, Carola, author.
ISBN
9780674044111
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674044111
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2021]
Copyright
©2010
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (440 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674044111 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
371.826/9120973
Summary
One child in five in America is the child of immigrants, and their numbers increase each year. Based on an extraordinary interdisciplinary study that followed 400 newly arrived children from the Caribbean, China, Central America, and Mexico for five years, this book provides a compelling account of the lives, dreams, academic journeys, and frustrations of these youngest immigrants.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M., author.
Todorova, Irina, author.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Tables
Figures
Introduction: The Long View on Immigrant Students
1 Academic Engagement and Performance
2 Networks of Relationships
3 Less-Than-Optimal Schools
4 The Challenge of Learning English
5 Portraits of Declining Achievers
6 Portraits of Low Achievers
7 Portraits of Improvers
8 Portraits of High Achievers
Conclusion: Immigration Policy Dilemmas
Notes
References
Acknowledgments
Index

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