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Immigrant Students at School


Advice on Keeping Immigrant Students Safe at School

Bill Koski offers practical advice on measures that educators can take to create a safe, legal, and welcoming environment for students and families without ...

Higher Education for Immigrant Students - NILC

This toolkit provides resources for students, advocates, and legislators interested in improving access to in-state tuition, financial aid, and scholarships ...

The Potential Struggles For Immigrant Students In The U.S.

If they are discriminated against, immigrant students tend to perform more poorly in school. On the contrary, if an immigrant student is ...

Editorial: Standing Up for Immigrant Students - Rethinking Schools

Being undocumented becomes a major issue for students who graduate from U.S. high schools and wish to continue on to college. Public universities in many states ...

Educating immigrant students is expensive — but it's worth the cost

They are the “newcomers” — newly arrived immigrant students, many starting schools this month. And with immigration, crime and border issues ...

For Many Immigrant Students, School Is Their One Safe Place

It's unconstitutional, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, to deny children an education because of their immigration status. Yet over the years, ...

Understanding Immigrant Children and Youth - Texas Gateway

Defining Immigrant Children and Youth · Are aged 3 through 21; · Were not born in any State*; and · Have not been attending one or more schools in any one or more ...

Preventing Media Bias Against Immigrant Students

We must remember that schools are designed to educate. And, they are legally obligated to fulfill this duty for all students, regardless of ...

Latino immigrant students' school experiences in the United States

This paper reviews the literature on the educational experiences of Latino immigrant students in the United States, from early childhood through ...

Immigrant Students at School: Easing the Journey towards Integration

How school systems respond to immigration has an enormous impact on the economic and social well-being of all members of the communities they serve, ...

Immigrant-Origin Students in Higher Education: Powering the future ...

These students are integral to the mission of higher education and to the future of our national economy. Immigrant-origin students drive ...

74 Investigation Lays Bare Schools' Scarcity Mindset Toward ...

74 Investigation Lays Bare Schools' Scarcity Mindset Toward Immigrant Students · In refusing to enroll a 19-year-old newcomer, hundreds of ...

In Limbo: An Immigrant Student's Path to a College Degree - EdTrust

The barriers to college access for immigrant students are intricately compounded and vary by state. In any given state, an undocumented student ...

Engage Families to Support Immigrant Students

One of the most important institutions for immigrant integration is K-12 education. Immigrants are assets to our country, and if the children of immigrants have ...

The Challenges and Opportunities of Being a High School Immigrant

Immigrant families often cannot help their children with school assignments because of the language barrier. But, more so, the language barrier ...

Immigrant and Native Enrollment in Private and Public Education

We find that 9 percent of immigrants enrolled in K–12 education were in private school during the 2015–2022 period, compared to 16.3 percent of native‐ born ...

Legal Guidance - California School Boards Association

All students, regardless of immigration status, have equal access to an education under the laws of the United. States. However, families that fear an ...

Immigrants and Education in California

In 2019, 52% of working-age immigrants (age 25–64) who had lived in the US for five years or less had bachelor's or graduate degrees, up 31 percentage points ...

For many immigrant students, school is their one safe place

My school in Chicago, like many U.S. public schools, was receiving dozens of newcomer students weekly. Many arrived with limited English or had ...

Opinion | Education in America: School Is for Hope

A deficit-oriented view can lower educators' expectations of immigrant children, which in turn can make it harder for those children to succeed ...