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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Recommendations for Addressing the Needs of English Language Learners
Targeted stimulus funds can improve outcomes for English Learners by investing in data systems, teaching quality, and accountability.
Gambling on the Future: Managing the Education Challenges of Rapid Growth in Nevada
Rapid demographic change has left Nevada reliant on immigrant workers while schools struggle to prepare a new, diverse generation.
Los Angeles on the Leading Edge: Immigrant Integration Indicators and their Policy Implications
Immigrants in Los Angeles face persistent labor market, language, and health-care integration gaps that call for more proactive policy across the public and private sectors.
After-School Institutions in Chinese and Korean Immigrant Communities: A Model for Others?
Chinese and Korean immigrants in Los Angeles built ethnic after-school systems that boosted achievement.
Pathways to Success for the Second Generation in Europe
Early schooling, delayed tracking, and apprenticeship systems most improved outcomes for Turkish second-generation students across five European countries.
Measures of Change: The Demography and Literacy of Adolescent English Learners
Adolescent students in the United States who are Limited English Proficient (LEP) show persistent achievement gaps. There is broad variation in how states test them.
Second-Generation Latinos in Nebraska: A First Look
Nebraska's foreign-born population grew faster than any other U.S. Midwestern state in the 1990s, with Latinos making up 53.8 percent of the state’s foreign born by 2004.
New Estimates of Unauthorized Youth Eligible for Legal Status under the DREAM Act
MPI estimates about 1.1 million unauthorized youth could gain legal status under the DREAM Act of 2006, about 360,000 with immediate eligibility.
Leaving Too Much To Chance: A Roundtable on Immigrant Integration Policy
Fifty experts convened to assess immigrant integration across education, employment, and civic life found too much left to chance and offered concrete policy fixes.