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This short article gives tips on helping ELs feel ready for learning. laughter, warming them up, matching them up for dialog with partners, keeping your own equanimity, and realizing their ability to think outpaces their ability to communicate in English.

The article talks about increasing diversity in the Springdale district of Arkansas which saw a change from 97 percent Caucasian students in 1989 to 35.4 percent Caucasian students in October 2016.

To understand how educational policies are created and supported for immigrants and their children, we must explore how community members make sense of broader immigrant/immigration discourses.

his paper reports on the curriculum development stage for a larger science-literacy intervention for secondary school newcomers enrolled in an urban US school.

Purpose: This paper provides insight into the effective education of immigrant and migrant children: many of whom are classified in New York City's public schools as English language learners.

This study aims to increase understanding of factors that account for academic English language proficiency in a sample of 274 adolescent first-generation immigrant students from China, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Central America, and Mexico.

The purpose of this case study is to investigate the decision-making processes of 12 high-achieving rural Mexican immigrant high school students. Ethnographic data are collected over 18 months, and the investigation is guided by structuration theory.

This paper looks at how migrant, bilingual high school students, who are speakers of both Spanish and English in their out-of-school lives, learn to master academic discourse through the use of their pre-existing internal resources.

This webinar presents information about who refugees are and how schools can serve these students, offering strategies and approaches for educating refugees and for creating inclusive school environments.

Ethnic identity refers to the subjective experience embracing the feelings, experiences, and behaviors through which people position their membership in a single or multiple ethnic groups.