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Spotlight on Foreign Students and Exchange Visitors in 2005
Foreign student and exchange visitor admissions to the United States neared 1 million in 2005, up 46 percent over the decade.
The Second Generation in Early Adulthood: New Findings from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study
The study found most second-generation young adults in the United States were thriving, but some youth face persistent challenges.
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.
Education and Immigrant Integration in the United States and Canada
This report compares U.S. and Canadian approaches to immigrant integration through education, urging a policy shift that includes debate of integration, not just admissions.
The New Demography of America's Schools
Within the context of implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act, this report offers a demographic profile of the children of immigrants—who are one in five of all U.S. children under age 18.
Educational Attainment of the Foreign Born in the United States in 2000
The 2000 U.S. census revealed sharp differences in educational attainment among U.S. immigrants, with Indians tending to be among the most highly educated.
Educating Refugees in Countries of First Asylum: The Case of Uganda
Uganda's 1999 Self-Reliance Strategy sought to fold refugee education into national systems, but security gaps and movement restrictions undercut results.
Education May Boost Fortunes of Second-Generation Latino Immigrants
First-generation Latino teens in the United States out-earned peers in 2000, but second-generation Latinos who focus on school surpass them in earnings and attainment by adulthood.