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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"Immigrant Students"”.
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Hispanic immigrant students
… In the last 50 years the vast majority of immigrants have come from Latin America and Asia. Due to the large increase in immigration and high birth-rates among Latinos/as, the number of immigrant children in schools has also increased dramatically. In 2004 it was estimated that there were …
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Navigating College Life: College Transition Experiences and Persistence of Minority Immigrant Students
Fifty-two ethnic minority immigrant students drawn from the 2006 entering freshman class at a predominantly White, public, doctoral granting, residential institution in the Midwestern U.S. participated in the study. These students and their families regarded postsecondary education in the U.S. as …
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WELCOMING OUR IMMIGRANT STUDENTS: Using Folklore to Bridge the Gap in Multicultural Classrooms
… States is a country historically made up of immigrants. Our shores have been a beacon of hope to travelers from all over the world and today is no different. The U.S. borders are flooded with people trying to make a better life for themselves and their families. Whether they are chasing the …
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School personnel perspectives on the assessment and evaluation of immigrant students from Punjab
… are becoming more culturally diverse and Punjabi students are a population of students that has grown in school districts. Special educators and school psychologists are inadequately prepared for this growth of students and are struggling to provide effective, relevant, equitable, and appropriate …
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Challenges and Opportunities of Chinese Immigrant Students with Intellectual Disabilities in Transition Services
… the experiences of newly immigrated Chinese students with intellectual disabilities who are in transition programs. In depth interviews were conducted with four students and their families. Quality of life, sense of self, nature of relationships, beliefs about disability, and challenges and …
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East Caribbean immigrant students in the United States Virgin Islands public high schools
… decision in Hosier v. Evans (1970) which allowed immigrant students from the Eastern Caribbean to attend Virgin Islands public schools for the first time, rejecting department of education argument for not allowing them admission because of lack of funding. This study investigates the achievement …
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High School Performance of Cape Verdean Immigrant Students in New Bedford: A Linguistic Perspective
… Verdean schools. In this project, Cape Verdean immigrant students in New Bedford, Massachusetts, who started their high school education in Cape Verde and continued in the New Bedford High Schools will be interviewed in order to explore their integration in the New Bedford school and also …
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Visitors Pass: The Story of a Group of Pakistani Immigrant Students at Sawyer High School
<p>New immigrant populations are shaped in significant ways by globalization. The phenomenon of transnationalism has changed the localized sense of "home" and "local cultures" on a global scale. In fact, "Globalization lies at the core of current sociocultural experiences, especially in processes …
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New Voices in the Old South: Latino Immigrant Students' Experiences at one Georgia Middle School
… study investigated the experiences of Latino immigrant students as they negotiated and developed their academic identities at one Georgia middle school in Athens, Georgia, U.S.A. Seventy-five students took part in the survey portion of the research study, while six students participated in …
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A Qualitative Study of Immigration Trauma, Posttraumatic Growth, and the College Experience Among MENA Immigrant Students
<p>Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) immigrant students who are seeking to earn a higher education in the United States have to navigate acculturative stressors and systemic barriers. Prior research has focused primarily on the challenges MENA immigrant students experience without deeply …
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The effect of immersive conversational AI on immigrant students' second language production and willingness to communicate
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Navigating the U.S. Educational System: Perspectives of Kenyan Immigrant Students labelled with Dis/abilities and their Families
Black African immigrants from Kenya, like other immigrants, value school. They consider education as a mechanism of upward mobility. School is considered as the key to a better life that would provide access to social mobility, and economic stability for immigrant families as they settle in their …
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Exploring knowledge of Canadian values and social axioms in international and landed immigrant students' adaptation to Canada
… to this research, 160 international and landed immigrant students at the University of Saskatchewan completed a questionnaire examining their perceptions of Canadian values and social axioms. Values and social axioms are guiding principles and mediating beliefs, respectively, that individuals …
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Well-Being And Academic Performance In Immigrant Students: The Role Of Inequality Of Country Of Origin And Resilience
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Research on the psychology of immigrants has primarily focused on their socioeconomic status, but has not factored in macroeconomic indicators. These provide a deeper understanding of the stressors experienced by immigrants through the lens of cultural gaps between home and host …
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Unorthodox Support: How Mentors of Undocumented Immigrant Students Leverage Community Cultural Wealth to Pave the Way for College Success
… the mentoring experiences of undocumented immigrant students (UIS) who have graduated from a four-year college or university in the United States. There has been an increase in research about undocumented immigrant students and there is an established body of literature about mentoring. …
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Leadership paradigms informing the ways school administrators work with Somali immigrant students: case studies of two high schools in an urban school district
… adequate education that meets the needs of students from ethnically, linguistically, and socioeconomically diverse backgrounds. As school communities continue to be transformed into multiethnic communities, this demands educational leaders or administrators that are not only culturally …
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A Qualitative Study of the Social Emotional Needs of Newly Arrived Immigrant Secondary Students in One Texas High School
… of Education reported that newly arrived immigrant students are welcomed to classrooms in public schools, and recent data revealed that more than 840,000 immigrant students occupy American classrooms. Immigrant students may demonstrate high aspirations and hope for a good public education …
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Civic Education and Citizenship Education: A Qualitative Study of Secondary Social Studies Teachers' Understandings of the Concepts and Practices of Citizenship Education for Immigrant Students
… and optimally the premier discipline that primes students for engaged citizenry. Anti-immigrant sentiments towards fourth wave immigrants and the nearly absent research on and training for teachers in citizenship education for immigrant students rendered the complex preparation of these youngsters …
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Cross-Cultural Narrative Inquiry into Language, Culture, and Identity Development of Three High School Female Immigrant Students and Their Mainstream Schooling Experience in Atlanta, Georgia
… inquiry explored the experience of three female immigrant students as they acculturated (learned a new language and culture) and enculturated (maintained the heritage language and culture) while developing new identities in an English-speaking public high school in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. I used …
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