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83% of science aces are immigrants’ kids
Indrani Das, 17, won the Regeneron Science Talent Search this year for her study of a possible approach to treating the death of neurons due to brain injury or neurodegenerative disease. The New Jersey...
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College ‘diversity council’ admits racism hoax
Posters calling for “white Americans” to report “illegal aliens” alarmed Gustavus Adolphus College students, who flooded Bias Response lines with complaints. Who were the alt-rightists proclaiming...
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For a more perfect union
Elementary schools have contributed to national discord by neglecting to teach American history and civic principles, writes E.D. Hirsch Jr. in Democracy Journal. America is not a melting pot, but a...
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Why Indo-American kids bee good
Nihar Janga and Jairam Hathwar were co-champions at the 2016 Scripps National Spelling Bee. Illustration: Eda Akaltun/Harper’s Magazine In Bee-Brained, in Harper’s Magazine, Vauhini Vara, a former...
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Do refugees learn more in ‘international’ schools?
Students at GEO International High School in Kentucky, all recent immigrants or refugees, present history projects to the class. Photo: Meredith Kolodner “Segregating” refugees may help them...
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‘An A in Harlem vs. an A in a majority-white school’
Teens Take Charge publicizes students’ views on school segregation in New York City. Photo: Brett Rawson When Yacine Fall went from a Harlem middle school to a selective public high school five miles...
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Welcome to Refugee High
Hajar Assaf (middle) walks down a school hall with two fellow Syrian refugees. Photo: Alyssa Schukar/Chicago Magazine Chicago’s Sullivan High has raised its enrollment and test scores by welcoming...
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Where poor kids are learning — Texas
Chess is popular in Brownsville, Texas schools. In this 2012 photo, Hannah High School students consider their moves. Photo: Will Van Overbeek Only 4 percent of schools have closed the economic...
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Newcomer schools: Separate and better?
Michael Krell teaches statistics at the International Academy, a program for immigrant students at Cardozo Educational Campus in Washington, D.C. Photo: Natalie Gross Special schools designed for...
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Hispanic enrollment doubled in 20 years
The number of Hispanic students has nearly doubled in the last 20 years, and now makes up 22.7 percent of enrollees from preschool through college, according to a new Census report. Graduation rates...
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Latinos go to college — but few earn 4-year degrees
Latinos’ high school graduation rates have soared and they’re far more likely to enroll in two- and four-year colleges. However Latino college graduation rates have stalled, reports Catherine Gewertz...
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NY cuts English classes for immigrants
More than 10 percent of New York City students are classified as English Language Learners. Beginning English Language Learners (ELLs) need direct instruction in English writes Arthur Goldstein, an...
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Refuge, friendship and hope
In The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom, journalist Helen Thorpe describes the progress of newly arrived teens at Denver’s South High. Immigrants from...
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? The “Ivy sisters,” who came from Cameroon to the Bronx, will be attending Dartmouth, Yale and Harvard in the fall, reports NBC. A video of Xaviera Zime finding out she was admitted to Harvard went...
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Bilingual ed as white privilege
Middle-class, native English-speaking, white parents are flooding into dual-immersion bilingual programs, writes Conor Williams in The Atlantic. In some gentrifying neighborhoods, they’re crowding out...
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Immigrant parents aren’t keen on bilingual ed
Mural by students at Broadway Elementary School in Los Angeles Los Angeles Unified is tripling the number of dual-immersion bilingual programs, but there’s a catch, reports Kyle Stokes for KPCC....
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Don’t blame tech for teen suicides
Don’t blame technology for teen suicides, writes Mike Males in the Washington Monthly. Rates are much higher for rural and small-town whites — teens and adults — than for urban dwellers. Smartphones...
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Immigrant students catch up quickly in Canada
Teacher Ann Woomert works with Aisha, 12, from Somalia, in class for English Learners at an Ontario school. Photo: Ian Willms/Boreal Collective for Education Week Immigrant students are thriving in...
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Online degree expands college access
Georgia Tech’s online master’s in computer science program enabled mid-career workers to earn a degree that would have been out of reach before, concludes a new study. The “typical in-person program...
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Study links DACA to more schooling, fewer births
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which linked eligibility to schooling, led to a 15 percent increase in high school graduation rates for undocumented immigrant youth,...
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