Sentences with phrase «successful immigrant students»

Portraits of promise: Voices of successful immigrant students.

In this edition of the EdCast, Sadowski discusses his book and shares insight into the perspective and voices of successful immigrant students from across the country.

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Her book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City (University of California Press 2010), challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture — the clothing, music, and tough talk — to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students and children of immigrants as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successful lives.

Her forthcoming book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City (University of California Press 2010), challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture — the clothing, music, and tough talk — to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students and children of immigrants as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successful lives.

Some European countries with large immigrant populations — such as Switzerland and Lichtenstein — are more successful than the United States in educating immigrant students, particularly in the second generation.

The school also organized a three - part speaking series in which immigrant adults in the community came in to tell the students how they were able to be successful in their new lives.

In this episode, Dr. DeShawn Preston, higher education research fellow at the Southern Education Foundation, outlines five successful strategies for schools to create college readiness for students of color and students from immigrant families.

Lawrence's campus opened in 2012 and accepts students who have not been successful elsewhere because of many absences or because they left school altogether; For being new immigrants or young parents.