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Achieving Skill Mobility in the ASEAN Economic Community: Challenges, Opportunities, and Policy Implications
The ASEAN's skilled-labor mobility goal is far from reality, blocked by credential recognition barriers, national restrictions, and professionals' reluctance to move within the region.
Taking Stock of ESSA’s Potential Impact on Immigrant and English-Learner Students
A webinar examining provisions of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) related to immigrant and English-learner students’ success.
A Profile of Children with Unauthorized Immigrant Parents in the United States
This webinar offers a discussion of the economic, linguistic and educational disadvantage experienced by U.S. children with unauthorized immigrant parents. The researchers discuss their finding that 86 percent of the 5.1 million such children in the United States have a parent who could potentially benefit from the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) program.
A Profile of U.S. Children with Unauthorized Immigrant Parents
Children with unauthorized immigrant parents face sharply higher poverty and linguistic isolation than other U.S. children. State policies risk worsening these disadvantages.
Using Data to Improve Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Services for Immigrants and Refugees
A webinar marking the release of Immigrants and WIOA fact sheets that provides analysis of characteristics of immigrant and native-born residents in the United States that are relevant to understanding needs for adult education and workforce training services.
New Education Legislation Includes Important Policies for English Learners, Potential Pitfalls for their Advocates
The federal Every Student Succeeds Act elevates English Learners in school accountability frameworks but devolves oversight to states, risking inconsistent implementation.
Shortage Amid Surplus: Emigration and Human Capital Development in the Philippines
The Philippines' labor export policy has fueled remittances but also has created domestic skill shortages in STEM, medicine, and aviation.
Meeting the Education Needs of Rising Numbers of Newly Arrived Migrant Students in Europe and the United States
Rising refugee and migrant youth arrivals are straining schools on both sides of the Atlantic, with teacher shortages and limited reception capacity as the greatest obstacles.
Transatlantic Symposium Report: Improving Instruction for Immigrant and Refugee Students in Secondary Schools
Immigrant and refugee students in secondary schools in Europe and the United States leave early at disproportionate rates. Stronger teacher training and coherent policy design could help close the gap.
Young Refugee Children: Their Schooling Experiences in the United States and in Countries of First Asylum
The authors of three MPI papers present their findings on the experiences of refugee children, including Syrian childen in first-asylum countries and Somali Bantu refugees resettled in the United States, and the impacts on their mental health and education.
