Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society

by Suarez-Orozco, Carola

• ISBN13: 9780674045804
• ISBN10: 0674045807
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-01
• Publisher: Belknap Pr

Summary

One child in five in America is the child of immigrants, and their numbers increase each year. Very few will return to the country they barely remember. Who are they, and what America do they know? Book jacket.

Author Biography

Carola Surez-Orozco is Associate Professor of Applied Psychology and Teaching and Learning and Co-Director of Immigration Studies at New York University. Marcelo M. Surez-Orozco is Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education and Co-Director of Immigration Studies at New York University. Irina Todorova is an international health psychology consultant in Boston.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Long View on Immigrant Students	p. 1
Academic Engagement and Performance	p. 30
Networks of Relationships	p. 55
Less-Than-Optimal Schools	p. 88
The Challenge of Learning English	p. 146
Portraits of Declining Achievers	p. 167
Portraits of Low Achievers	p. 228
Portraits of Improvers	p. 261
Portraits of High Achievers	p. 296
Conclusion: Immigration Policy Dilemmas	p. 359
Notes	p. 379
References	p. 394
Acknowledgments	p. 414
Index	p. 419
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