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Immigrants & Dual Language Learners
- Promise or Peril: Immigrants, LEP Students and the No Child Left Behind Act
June 9, 2010 This publication draws a statistical portrait of immigrant and limited English proficient (LEP) students in prekindergarten through fifth grade.
- Describing Immigrant Communities
June 9, 2010 This presentation includes results from past and present work (in some cases still being drafted) on immigrant populations using several data sources for national, state and local-level analyses.
- A Profile of America’s Future: Young Children in Immigrant Families in New York City
June 9, 2010 This PowerPoint presentation provides essential data on changing patterns of immigration in New York City.
- Demographic Change and the Life Circumstances of Immigrant Families
June 9, 2010 Several major demographic shifts over the past half-century have transformed who we are and how we live in this country in many ways.
- Leveling the Playing Field: Supporting Immigrant Children from Birth to Eight
June 9, 2010 Many young children in immigrant families do not have good access to health and education services.
- Hardship in Many Languages: Immigrant Families and Children in NYC
June 9, 2010 Banish the cliché of the upwardly-mobile immigrant.
- Children in Immigrant Families – The U.S. and 50 States: National Origins, Language, and Early Education
June 8, 2010 Twenty percent of children in the U.S. now live with at least one foreign born parent.
- Putting English Language Learners on the Educational Map: The No Child Left Behind Act Implemented
June 7, 2010 This brief presents research findings as well as policy recommendations arising from a study of the No Child Left Behind Act and its implications for immigrant children and English language learners (ELLs). Analyses are based on nationally-representative data from the Schools and Staffing Survey and detailed case studies of selected elementary schools and school districts serving high concentrations of ELL students.