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Education

Education

Early Childhood Education
K-12 Education
Adult Education & Language Learning
Postsecondary Education
Workforce & Vocational Training
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From early childhood through postsecondary education, immigrants and their children face unique challenges and barriers in educational attainment and access to college compared to their native-born peers. The research here analyzes myriad facets of this topic—from the factors influencing early childhood development through the challenges confronted by students who are not proficient in the host-country language, the gaps that can re-emerge in postsecondary education, and capacity issues and needs for language programs and workforce and vocational training.

Recent Activity

Quality for Whom? Supporting Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Children and Workers in Early Childhood Quality Rating and Improvement Systems
Reports
August 2017
Quality for Whom? Supporting Diverse Children and Workers in Early Childhood Quality Rating and Improvement Systems
By  Julie Sugarman and Maki Park
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Policy Briefs
August 2017
The Education and Work Profiles of the DACA Population
By  Randy Capps, Michael Fix and Jie Zong
Weathering Crisis, Forging Ahead: Swedish Asylum and Integration Policy
Reports
June 2017
Weathering Crisis, Forging Ahead: Swedish Asylum and Integration Policy
By  Susan Fratzke
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Commentaries
June 2017
Immigrants and the New Brain Gain: Ways to Leverage Rising Educational Attainment
By  Jeanne Batalova and Michael Fix
New Brain Gain: Rising Human Capital among Recent Immigrants to the United States
Fact Sheets
June 2017
New Brain Gain: Rising Human Capital among Recent Immigrants to the United States
By  Jeanne Batalova and Michael Fix
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Reports
March 2017
Rebuilding after Crisis: Embedding Refugee Integration in Migration Management Systems (Council Statement)
By  Demetrios G. Papademetriou, Meghan Benton and Natalia Banulescu-Bogdan
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Multimedia
March 9, 2017
Strategic Opportunities for Including English Learners in ESSA State Accountability Plans
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Commentaries
March 2017
Trump and DeVos: What Could the New Administration Spell for English Learner and Immigrant Students?
By  Julie Sugarman

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Reports
October 2013
Immigrant Workers and the Workforce Development System in the United Kingdom
By  Anne Green
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Reports
September 2013
Newcomers to the Aloha State: Challenges and Prospects for Mexicans in Hawai'i
By  Jeanne Batalova, Monisha Das Gupta and Sue Patricia Haglund
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Reports
August 2013
Pensando Regionalmente para Competir Globalmente: Aprovechar la Migración y el Capital Humano en Estados Unidos, México y Centroamérica
By  Demetrios G. Papademetriou, Doris Meissner and Eleanor Sohnen
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Policy Briefs
August 2013
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals at the One-Year Mark: A Profile of Currently Eligible Youth and Applicants
By  Jeanne Batalova, Sarah Hooker and Randy Capps
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Reports
July 2013
Preparing the Children of Immigrants for Early Academic Success
By  Robert Crosnoe
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Reports
July 2013
Tackling Brain Waste: Strategies to Improve the Recognition of Immigrants’ Foreign Qualifications
By  Madeleine Sumption
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Reports
June 2013
Shaping Our Futures: The Educational and Career Success of Washington State’s Immigrant Youth
By  Sarah Hooker, Margie McHugh, Michael Fix and Randy Capps
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Reports
May 2013
Thinking Regionally to Compete Globally: Leveraging Migration & Human Capital in the U.S., Mexico, and Central America
By  Demetrios G. Papademetriou, Doris Meissner and Eleanor Sohnen

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Recent Activity

Reports
August 2017

Quality for Whom? Supporting Diverse Children and Workers in Early Childhood Quality Rating and Improvement Systems

For children in U.S. homes where a language other than English is spoken, early childhood programs that are responsive to their needs can be key to later academic success. But as states refine their Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) to assess such programs, immigrant early childhood workers with in-demand language and cultural skills may be left behind. This report examines the challenges these workers face and promising practices to serve diverse communities.

Policy Briefs
August 2017

The Education and Work Profiles of the DACA Population

The future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is uncertain, amid skepticism from the Trump administration about its merits and the promise of legal challenge from ten state attorneys general. This issue brief presents a profile of young adults eligible for DACA in terms of their educational attainment and labor force participation, as well as what is at stake should the program be terminated.

Reports
June 2017

Weathering Crisis, Forging Ahead: Swedish Asylum and Integration Policy

As the number of asylum seekers arriving in Sweden each month climbed to the tens of thousands in late 2015, the Swedish asylum system reached a breaking point. Arrivals have since slowed, but the challenge is far from over. This report examines Swedish policymakers’ efforts to manage future flows and support integration of newcomers through changes to housing, employment, education, and health services.

Commentaries
June 2017

Immigrants and the New Brain Gain: Ways to Leverage Rising Educational Attainment

A recent MPI study reveals that 48 percent of recent immigrants to the United States were college graduates, a sharp increase over earlier periods. How can the United States better leverage this brain gain? This commentary outlines some policies that could allow the United States to more fully utilize the professional and academic credentials that highly skilled immigrants have, for their benefit and that of the U.S. economy.

Fact Sheets
June 2017

New Brain Gain: Rising Human Capital among Recent Immigrants to the United States

Nearly half of immigrant adults arriving in the U.S. since 2011 have a college degree—a far higher share than a quarter-century ago, when just 27 percent did. This striking but little noted shift in the composition of recent immigrant flows, driven in part by rising migration from Asia, comes as some policymakers press for a "merit-based" immigration system. This fact sheet examines rising human capital at U.S. and state levels.

Reports
March 2017

Rebuilding after Crisis: Embedding Refugee Integration in Migration Management Systems (Council Statement)

This Transatlantic Council Statement explores the integration questions that the recent refugee and migration crisis in Europe has brought to the fore and their effect on broader governance structures for managing migration. As the immediate pressures have abated, policymakers have refocused their energies on preventing the next crisis and ensuring that newcomers—and the communities in which they settle—have the tools to thrive.

Video, Audio, Webinars
March 9, 2017

Strategic Opportunities for Including English Learners in ESSA State Accountability Plans

This discussion focuses on practices and options that states could adopt to hold schools accountable for English Learners’ achievement in the fairest and most accurate manner as part of the implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act. This webinar marks the release of a set of 13 state fact sheets, available on MPI's web page English Learners and the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), that provide a sketch of EL demographics, student outcomes, and accountability mechanisms under ESSA and its predecessor.

Commentaries
March 2017

Trump and DeVos: What Could the New Administration Spell for English Learner and Immigrant Students?

The selection of Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary and President Trump’s immigration enforcement-focused executive orders have left many parents and educators wondering how the new administration’s policies will affect students from immigrant families and the schools that serve them. The simple answer, as this commentary explores, is: It will depend on the actions of state and local policymakers where those students live.

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