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The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing inequalities within our education systems, and, in many cases, has further marginalized students of refugee and migrant backgrounds.

Structured English Immersion is the language policy Arizona uses to construct the educational experiences of refugee students entering its schools. This article includes a review of the literature and data collected through interviews with teachers to examine how this policy operates in practice.

This webinar discusses the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, how its educational requirements may be impacting application rates, and recommendations for overcoming the education-success challenges that key subgroups of DACA-DREAM youth face.

The authors investigated whether minority children attending U.S. elementary and middle schools are disproportionately represented in special education.

Thousands of Central American children made a harrowing journey to the United States. Now they are navigating the arduous process of getting an education.

Like Superman, the comic-book hero who navigated the dual identities of Superman (or Kar-el) and Clark Kent, many heroes of new graphic novels and illustrator-authors are bi-culturale.g., immigrants or the children of immigrantsexploring multiple identities in contemporary America.

Research suggests we may be predisposed to speak more than one language and that doing so brings benefits, such as delaying the onset of dementia.

Dramatic increases have occurred in the number of children who speak languages other than English at home in the United States and English language learners (ELLs) need support both for becoming proficient in English and for maintaining their first language.

This brief investigates why many Central American children are leaving their homes to come to the United States or travel to other Latin American countries. Many children cite crime, gangs, and violence as key reasons, while smaller numbers of children report leaving because of extreme poverty.

This article is part of a series following a family of Syrian refugees and their experiences starting over in the United States.