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Immigrant Children and the Politics of English-only

Author : Tom Stritikus
Publisher : LFB Scholarly Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immigrant Children and the Politics of English-only written by Tom Stritikus and published by LFB Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Stritikus (education, U. of Washington) presents the case of one California school district's experience with the changes in bilingual education policy brought about by Proposition 227. His ethnographic study focuses on four teachers in two schools in a rural district, and seeks to understand the nature of teachers' work in an out of classroom literacy contexts in the new policy environment created by Proposition 227. The author examines how teachers' work influences the nature of Proposition 227 as a reform strategy, and several factors that contribute to the connection between policy and practice. He concludes with possible implications of the findings for the understanding of language policy and the education of culturally and linguistically diverse students. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Immigrant Children in Transcultural Spaces

Author : Marjorie Faulstich Orellana
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131761867X
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Immigrant Children in Transcultural Spaces written by Marjorie Faulstich Orellana and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grounded in both theory and practice, with implications for both, this book is about children’s perspectives on the borders that society erects, and their actual, symbolic, ideational and metaphorical movement across those borders. Based on extensive ethnographic data on children of immigrants (mostly from Mexico, Central America and the Philippines) as they interact with undergraduate students from diverse linguistic, cultural and racial/ethnic backgrounds in the context of an urban play-based after-school program, it probes how children navigate a multilingual space that involves playing with language and literacy in a variety of forms. Immigrant Children in Transcultural Spaces speaks to critical social issues and debates about education, immigration, multilingualism and multiculturalism in an historical moment in which borders are being built up, torn down, debated and recreated, in both real and symbolic terms; raises questions about the values that drive educational practice and decision-making; and suggests alternatives to the status quo. At its heart, it is a book about how love can serve as a driving force to connect people with each other across all kinds of borders, and to motivate children to engage powerfully with learning and life.

True American

Author : Rosemary C. Salomone
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674056833
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book True American written by Rosemary C. Salomone and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can schools meet the needs of an increasingly diverse population of newcomers? Do bilingual programs help children transition into American life, or do they keep them in a linguistic ghetto? Are immigrants who maintain their native language uninterested in being American, or are they committed to changing what it means to be American? In this ambitious book, Rosemary Salomone uses the heated debate over how best to educate immigrant children as a way to explore what national identity means in an age of globalization, transnationalism, and dual citizenship. She demolishes popular myths—that bilingualism impedes academic success, that English is under threat in contemporary America, that immigrants are reluctant to learn English, or that the ancestors of today’s assimilated Americans had all to gain and nothing to lose in abandoning their family language. She lucidly reveals the little-known legislative history of bilingual education, its dizzying range of meanings in different schools, districts, and states, and the difficulty in proving or disproving whether it works—or defining it as a legal right. In eye-opening comparisons, Salomone suggests that the simultaneous spread of English and the push toward multilingualism in western Europe offer economic and political advantages from which the U.S. could learn. She argues eloquently that multilingualism can and should be part of a meaningful education and responsible national citizenship in a globalized world.

English for the Children

Author : Johanna J. Haver
Publisher : R&L Education
ISBN 13 : 1475802021
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book English for the Children written by Johanna J. Haver and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silicon Valley software entrepreneur Ron Unz took on the education establishment, both major political parties, the ACLU, and several activist groups with his "English for the Children" movement that began in 1996 and ended on Election Day 2002. His campaign to dismantle bilingual education through ballot measures in four states - California, Arizona, Colorado, and Massachusetts - drew frequent responses from the national media that initially opposed and then supported Unz's cause. The initiatives passed with 61-68% of the vote in three states, but failed in Colorado. Experienced teacher and author of Structured English Immersion, Johanna J. Haverdetails the politics surrounding the Unz campaign, explaining both sides of the issues honestly and respectfully. She outlines the challenges that ensued after the measures became law and discusses areas of concern that remain in dispute to this day: Identification, placement, and reclassification of English language learners English proficiency tests Segregation versus integration Compliance versus flexibility The Office for Civil Rights Federal and state funding Dual-language instruction as an option

Educating Immigrant Children

Author : Charles Leslie Glenn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0815314698
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Educating Immigrant Children written by Charles Leslie Glenn and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1996 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

I Am an English-Language Learner: The Real and Unique Stories of Immigrant Children in America

Author : Melissa Campesi
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1684708230
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book I Am an English-Language Learner: The Real and Unique Stories of Immigrant Children in America written by Melissa Campesi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All around the world, people speak, read, and write in many different languages. Some languages have different alphabet systems, and others make sounds that don't exist in English. Not only can our languages be different, but so can the ways we dress, eat, and greet others. When children come to the United States from other countries and need to learn English, they become English language learners. I Am an English-Language Learner introduces eight children from various countries who are learning English in their new homes. They share what they miss about their native countries, how they feel about living in the United States, and what they dream of doing. Each one has a new story and unique journey, helping everyone understand that the best education comes from learning about one another. This children's book introduces young readers to new customs and cultures through the stories of students who are learning English as a second language.

E Pluribus Unum?

Author : Gary Gerstle
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 161044244X
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book E Pluribus Unum? written by Gary Gerstle and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2001-11-29 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political involvement of earlier waves of immigrants and their children was essential in shaping the American political climate in the first half of the twentieth century. Immigrant votes built industrial trade unions, fought for social protections and religious tolerance, and helped bring the Democratic Party to dominance in large cities throughout the country. In contrast, many scholars find that today's immigrants, whose numbers are fast approaching those of the last great wave, are politically apathetic and unlikely to assume a similar voice in their chosen country. E Pluribus Unum? delves into the wealth of research by historians of the Ellis Island era and by social scientists studying today's immigrants and poses a crucial question: What can the nation's past experience teach us about the political path modern immigrants and their children will take as Americans? E Pluribus Unum? explores key issues about the incorporation of immigrants into American public life, examining the ways that institutional processes, civic ideals, and cultural identities have shaped the political aspirations of immigrants. The volume presents some surprising re-assessments of the past as it assesses what may happen in the near future. An examination of party bosses and the party machine concludes that they were less influential political mobilizers than is commonly believed. Thus their absence from today's political scene may not be decisive. Some contributors argue that the contemporary political system tends to exclude immigrants, while others remind us that past immigrants suffered similar exclusions, achieving political power only after long and difficult struggles. Will the strong home country ties of today's immigrants inhibit their political interest here? Chapters on this topic reveal that transnationalism has always been prominent in the immigrant experience, and that today's immigrants may be even freer to act as dual citizens. E Pluribus Unum? theorizes about the fate of America's civic ethos—has it devolved from an ideal of liberal individualism to a fractured multiculturalism, or have we always had a culture of racial and ethnic fragmentation? Research in this volume shows that today's immigrant schoolchildren are often less concerned with ideals of civic responsibility than with forging their own identity and finding their own niche within the American system of racial and ethnic distinction. Incorporating the significant influx immigrants into American society is a central challenge for our civic and political institutions—one that cuts to the core of who we are as a people and as a nation. E Pluribus Unum? shows that while today's immigrants and their children are in some ways particularly vulnerable to political alienation, the process of assimilation was equally complex for earlier waves of immigrants. This past has much to teach us about the way immigration is again reshaping the nation.

American Immigrant

Author : Rosalie Porter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351532715
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book American Immigrant written by Rosalie Porter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigration is one of the most contentious issues in twenty-first-century America. In forty years, the American population has doubled from 150 to 300 million, about half of the increase due to immigration. Discussions involving legal and illegal status, assimilation or separatism, and language unity or multilingualism continue to spark debate. The battle to give five million immigrant children America's common language, English, and to help these students join their English-speaking classmates in opportunities for self-fulfillment continues to be argued. American Immigrant is part memoir and part account of Rosalie Pedalino Porter's professional activities as a national authority on immigrant education and bilingualism.Her career began in the 1970s, when she entered the most controversial arena in public education, bilingualism. This book chronicles the political movement Porter helped lead, one that succeeded in changing state laws in California, Arizona, and Massachusetts. Programs that had segregated Latino children by language and ethnicity for years, diminishing their educational opportunities, were removed with overwhelming public support. New English-language programs in these states are reporting improved academic achievement for these students.This book is also Porter's testament to the boundless opportunities for women in the United States, and to the unique blending of ethnicities and religions and races into harmonious families, her own included, that continues to be a true strength of the United States Porter examines women's roles, beginning in the 1940s and continuing through the millennium, from the vantage point of someone who grew up in a working-class, male-dominated family. She explores the emotional price exacted by dislocation from one's native land and traditions; traveling and living in the Middle East, Europe, and Asia; and the evolving character of marriage and family in twenty-first-century America.

Language in Immigrant America

Author : Dominika Baran
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108508812
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Language in Immigrant America written by Dominika Baran and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the complex relationship between language and immigration in the United States, this timely book challenges mainstream, historically established assumptions about American citizenship and identity. Set within both a historical and a current political context, this book covers hotly debated topics such as language and ethnicity, the relationship between non-native English and American identity, perceptions and stereotypes related to foreign accents, code-switching, hybrid language forms such as Spanglish, language and the family, and the future of language in America. Work from the fields of linguistics, education policy, history, sociology, and politics are brought together to provide an accessible overview of the key issues. Through specific examples and case studies, immigrant America is presented as a diverse, multilingual, and multidimensional space in which identities are often hybridized and always multifaceted.

The New Immigrant and Language

Author : Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135709947
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book The New Immigrant and Language written by Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This six-volume set focuses on Latin American, Caribbean, and Asian immigration, which accounts for nearly 80 percent of all new immigration to the United States. The volumes contain the essential scholarship of the last decade and present key contributions reflecting the major theoretical, empirical, and policy debates about the new immigration. The material addresses vital issues of race, gender, and socioeconomic status as they intersect with the contemporary immigration experience. Organized by theme, each volume stands as an independent contribution to immigration studies, with seminal journal articles and book chapters from hard-to-find sources, comprising the most important literature on the subject. The individual volumes include a brief preface presenting the major themes that emerge in the materials, and a bibliography of further recommended readings. In its coverage of the most influential scholarship on the social, economic, educational, and civil rights issues revolving around new immigration, this collection provides an invaluable resource for students and researchers in a wide range of fields, including contemporary American history, public policy, education, sociology, political science, demographics, immigration law, ESL, linguistics, and more.

Immigration and School Safety

Author : Anthony A. Peguero
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000364909
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Immigration and School Safety written by Anthony A. Peguero and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigration and School Safety utilizes a multidisciplinary approach to expose the complex relationship between immigration and school safety in the United States. It addresses not only individual, intrapersonal, and environmental factors but also distant-level conditions that are relevant to the experiences of immigrant children and connected to school safety. Twenty-five percent of all youth in U.S. schools have at least one immigrant parent, and that percentage is expected to increase to 33 percent by 2040. A wide array of factors, including but not limited to laws, public and political discourses, educational policies, interpersonal relationships, socioeconomic status, English language proficiency, citizenship, legal status, family characteristics, race and ethnicity, generational status, nationality, religion, and gender, contribute to the marginalizing experiences of children of immigrants at school. With the rapid growth of students in immigrant families in U.S. schools, any effort to address school violence and implement school safety policies must consider barriers associated with the unique educational experiences of that segment. This book highlights the often overlooked importance of immigration as a mediating factor in explaining both violence and victimization and provides a blueprint for integrating immigration and criminology theories into evidence-based efforts toward ensuring safety for all students. The authors demonstrate that immigration matters significantly in school violence and safety concerns and illustrate why research that integrates immigration with criminology theories is needed to understand the causes and correlates of school violence. The book will appeal to a wide array of individuals, including academics, educators, policymakers, practitioners, social workers, parents, and stakeholders who are committed to addressing educational disparities and inequities associated with immigration and school safety.

Teaching English Learners and Immigrant Students in Secondary Schools

Author : Christian Faltis
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 : 9780131192416
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book Teaching English Learners and Immigrant Students in Secondary Schools written by Christian Faltis and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical classroom resource helps teachers address the needs of students with non-parallel schooling, and immigrant English learners who are two or more years below grade level when they enter secondary school. It addresses standards and high stakes testing, arguing that teachers need specialized knowledge to assess English learners in literacy and academic content. This book also features an introduction to the theoretical reasons for the commitments, which are contextualized within historical and political developments within education programs for English learners. It then goes on to show how teachers can use the commitments in practice within real classroom settings for teaching English language arts, science, social studies, and math to English learners. --From publisher's description.

Translating Childhoods

Author : Marjorie Faulstich Orellana
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813548632
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Translating Childhoods written by Marjorie Faulstich Orellana and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-18 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the dynamics of immigrant family life has gained attention from scholars, little is known about the younger generation, often considered "invisible." Translating Childhoods, a unique contribution to the study of immigrant youth, brings children to the forefront by exploring the "work" they perform as language and culture brokers, and the impact of this largely unseen contribution. Skilled in two vernaculars, children shoulder basic and more complicated verbal exchanges for non-English speaking adults. Readers hear, through children's own words, what it means be "in the middle" or the "keys to communication" that adults otherwise would lack. Drawing from ethnographic data and research in three immigrant communities, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana's study expands the definition of child labor by assessing children's roles as translators as part of a cost equation in an era of global restructuring and considers how sociocultural learning and development is shaped as a result of children's contributions as translators.

Learning and Not Learning English

Author : Guadalupe Valdes
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807775444
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Learning and Not Learning English written by Guadalupe Valdes and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Learning a New Land

Author : Carola Suárez-Orozco
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674044118
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Learning a New Land written by Carola Suárez-Orozco and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One child in five in America is the child of immigrants, and their numbers increase each year. Based on an extraordinary interdisciplinary study that followed 400 newly arrived children from the Caribbean, China, Central America, and Mexico for five years, this book provides a compelling account of the lives, dreams, academic journeys, and frustrations of these youngest immigrants.

Educating Immigrant Children

Author : Michael Fix
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
ISBN 13 : 9780877666080
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Educating Immigrant Children written by Michael Fix and published by The Urban Insitute. This book was released on 1993 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Immigrant children in America Integration by Language Assimilation and Education

Author : Birgit George
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638195864
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Immigrant children in America Integration by Language Assimilation and Education written by Birgit George and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2003-06-10 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Sociology - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,7 (A-), Humboldt-University of Berlin (Institute for Sociology), course: PS Einwanderungsland USA: Historische Entwicklung und aktuelle Integrationsfragen, language: English, abstract: During the work on my seminar paper in this seminar “Immigration Country: USA” – that introduced modern conceptions of citizenship in the United States – I questioned the process of naturalization as an instrument to integrate immigrants as well as the including language test where immigrants must prove their ability to write, speak and read English. This theme led me to the question if language works as an instrument for integration or exclusion in contemporary multiethnic America - language and education, both very important for ones forthcoming in a society. In this homework I can only work on a small aspect on immigrant’s integration, so I intend to follow the questions how well immigrant children adapt to their American host society through schooling and the educational system and what role language assimilation plays in the American society that undergoes a continuing flow of immigrants of diverse ethnicities. Does the assimilation of the English language help for better integration, what does integration mean in this special context and what impacts does it have on immigrant children? What are their future prospects and is the common assumption true “no English language proficiency – no integration – no success”? How does the nation, state or schools react on the growing numbers of LEP students? I followed the pros and cons for bilingual classes and regarding this context the English-only Movement and its demands of American schools and its students. Immigration is once again transforming the racial as well as ethnic contours of American Society. Current estimates place annual immigration to the United States (legal and undocumented) at about 1 million persons per year (National Research Council 1997) and it won’t take long until the European Americans will no longer be a majority but African Americans, Latinos, Asians and Native Americans. This shift might be a beginning of a revolutionary change in the relationship between the majority and minority Americans. Maybe that will be an end to a social and cultural dominance of European-Americans and a flowering of multiculturalism. [...]