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Early Childhood Education and Care

Early Childhood Education and Care

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For the United States and other societies that experience high rates of immigration, investments in early childhood education and care (ECEC) are likely instrumental to successful integration. But the reach of high-quality early learning programs to children of immigrants remains limited. As the research here reveals, there are wide differences in access to early childhood education and care among the children of immigrants.

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Books
December 2012
Young Children of Black Immigrants in America: Changing Flows, Changing Faces
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Reports
October 2012
Black Immigrant Mothers in Palm Beach County, Florida, and their Children's Readiness for School
By  Lauren Rich , Julie Spielberger and Angela Valdovinos D’Angelo
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Reports
October 2012
Patterns and Predictors of School Readiness and Early Childhood Success among Young Children in Black Immigrant Families
By  Danielle A. Crosby and Angel S. Dunbar
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Reports
April 2012
Changing Demography and Circumstances for Young Black Children in African and Caribbean Immigrant Families
By  Donald J. Hernandez
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Reports
March 2012
The Educational Trajectories of English Language Learners in Texas
By  Stella M. Flores , Jeanne Batalova and Michael Fix
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The New Demography of U.S. Schools
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August 12, 2011
English Language Learners and Their Performance in U.S. Public Schools
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Reports
November 2009
The Binational Option: Meeting the Instructional Needs of Limited English Proficient Students
By  Aaron Terrazas and Michael Fix

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Recent Activity

Books
December, 2012

Young Children of Black Immigrants in America: Changing Flows, Changing Faces

This interdisciplinary volume examines the health, well-being, school readiness, and academic achievement of children in Black immigrant families (most with parents from Africa and the Caribbean)—a population that has had little academic attention even as it represents an increasing share of the U.S. Black child population.

Reports
October 2012

Patterns and Predictors of School Readiness and Early Childhood Success among Young Children in Black Immigrant Families

Using a nationally representative U.S. birth-cohort study, this report examines levels of school readiness among young children by race/ethnicity and nativity. The authors identify the contextual factors — such as family circumstances, parenting practices, and enrollment in center-based child care — that encourage early school success.

Reports
October 2012

Black Immigrant Mothers in Palm Beach County, Florida, and their Children's Readiness for School

This report draws on a six-year longitudinal study of Palm Beach County, FL, examining parenting, child care enrollment, and other factors that encourage early school success. The authors find kindergarten-age children of Black immigrants have significantly higher odds of being ready for school than children of Latina immigrant or Black U.S.-born mothers.

Reports
April 2012

Changing Demography and Circumstances for Young Black Children in African and Caribbean Immigrant Families

This report finds that the 813,000 U.S. children under the age of 10 who have Black immigrant parents from Africa or the Caribbean generally fall in the middle of multiple well-being indicators, faring less well than Asian and white children but better than their native-born Black and Hispanic peers. Citizenship status, English proficiency, parental characteristics, poverty, housing, and access to social supports are examined.

Reports
March 2012

The Educational Trajectories of English Language Learners in Texas

Texas has the second-largest number of English Language Learner (ELL) students in the nation. Using a unique longitudinal data set that tracks ELL and non-ELL students in Texas from first grade through high school, this report examines the trajectories and performance of individual groups.

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August 12, 2011

English Language Learners and Their Performance in U.S. Public Schools

In this video, Michael Fix and Margie McHugh examine key indicators of ELL students' performance on standardized tests, among other topics.
Video
August 12, 2011

The New Demography of U.S. Schools

In this video, Michael Fix and Margie McHugh discuss the distribution of English Language Learners across the country, their growth in enrollment, and more.
Reports
November 2009

The Binational Option: Meeting the Instructional Needs of Limited English Proficient Students

This report examines existing collaborative teacher exchange programs some U.S. states and districts have established with Mexico and Spain, and identifies such programs as a relatively unexplored, yet promising strategy for alleviating endemic teacher shortages and meeting the needs of LEP students.

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