After the story tale ending …
Spare Parts, which tells the true story of an underdog robotics team of Mexican immigrants, is inspirational and nearly waylaid by cliches, writes the Arizona Republic. In 2004, Arizona high school...
View ArticleWho Pays For The College Education Of Illegal Immigrants?
As a private school, Tufts is not obligated to report violations of (immigration) law to federal authorities. If Tufts wants to consider illegal immigrants as “domestic applicants”, that’s their own...
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Undocumented — and very smart
Classics scholar Dan-el Padilla Peralta, a graduate of Manhattan’s Collegiate School, Princeton, Oxford and Stanford, will join the Princeton faculty next year. In Undocumented, he describes his...
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Refugees ‘torn between two worlds’
Students leaving Patterson High at the end of a spring day include, starting fourth from left, Nadifa Idriss, Mona Al halabi, Manuel Maurizaca and Fayza Al halabi. Credit: Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun At...
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Learning English — pronto
The fall issue of Education Next is out, including my article on what’s changed in how schools are educating students who aren’t proficient in English. Pushed by No Child Left Behind’s (NCLB)...
View ArticleA school for newcomers
PBS Newshour is airing a two part series on how schools are trying to educate immigrant and refugee students. Las Americas Newcomer School in Houston enrolls newly arrived students who speak nearly 30...
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Asians: Stress is OK, focus on academics
A high-achieving New Jersey school district needs to ease pressure on students and focus more on “social-emotional development,” West Windsor-Plainsboro Superintendent David Aderhold argued in a letter...
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NYC schools skip Regents exam, raise grad rates
Graduation rates have soared at New York City schools that don’t require students to take Regents exams, reports the New York Post. Ten percent of the city’s high schools are allowed to use...
View ArticleDifferent Issues In Different Schools
The problems facing the students and their schools in these two stories couldn’t be more different. First, from Massachusetts: The only sound that could be heard in Maria Simon’s first-grade classroom...
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A perfect score
Cedrick Argueta, right, is congratulated by his calculus teacher, Anthony Yom, left. Photo: Al Seib, Los Angeles Times Of 302,531 students who took the Advanced Placement Calculus exam last year, only...
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The costs of opportunity
San Jose is the land of opportunity — or used to be, writes Alana Semuels in The Atlantic‘s City Lab. “A child born in the early 1980s into a low-income family in San Jose had a 12.9 percent chance of...
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From Somalia to St. Cloud
Somali students study together at a St. Cloud school. How does a small city in Minnesota cope with an influx of Somali immigrants? Tonight, PBS NewsHour looks at St. Cloud, Minnesota schools, which...
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Teaching Trump
A history teacher in Silicon Valley was placed on paid leave Thursday after comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, reports the San Jose Mercury News. A parent complained about remarks by Frank...
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‘Spanish Learners’ struggle in Mexico
Anthony David Martinez raises his hand in class at the Escuela 20 Noviembre school in Tijuana, Mexico. Photo: Sandy Huffaker/NPR When Mexican immigrants return to their homeland, their U.S.-born...
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Is the Dream over?
Luis E. Juarez-Trevino, a fifth grade bilingual teacher in Dallas, is “DACAmented.” President Obama’s 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) order make it possible for undocumented...
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OSU attacker was studying ‘microaggressions’
Abdul Artan, who tried to kill his Ohio State classmates with a car and knife, had a group project due this week on “microaggressions,” reports Robby Soave in Reason‘s Hit & Run. Born in Somalia...
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Most ‘English Learners’ are U.S. born
Most English Learner students were born in the U.S., reports the Migration Policy Institute. Eighty-two percent of pre-K to fifth grade ELs and 65 percent of those in middle and high school were born...
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Isaias seeks his future
In The Book of Isaias: A Child of Hispanic Immigrants Seeks His Own America, Daniel Connolly follows Isaias Ramos in his final year of high school and the next two years. He’s a math star at his...
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Adios to the ‘immigrant paradox’
It’s called the “immigrant paradox.” Immigrants’ children do better in school and behave better than classmates from native-born families of similar socioeconomic status. Some speculate that...
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Schools get refugees, but no resources
Samah Hussein, 13, and Abdulraheem Qadour, 11, study on their laptops in a class for refugee children at Cajon Valley Middle School. Photo: Christine Armario/AP El Cajon, just east of San Diego, has...
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