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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.

A study from Northwestern University and the American Institutes for Research shows finds that there is no evidence for the notion that the presence of refugee students negatively affects other students' educational experience.

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.

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.

Folk Arts-Treasures Charter School, a K-8 campus in Philadelphia, received approval from the School Reform Commission for expansion to create a newcomer program for recent immigrants.

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

Mexican and Central American immigrants, who have long histories of migration to the United States, represent 37 percent of the U.S. foreign-born population, yet are disproportionately represented (71 percent) among the total unauthorized immigrant population.

A federal court has found that a privately operated alternative school where refugee high school students with limited English or formal education have been sent, has not provided them with elements of an education that the law mandates for such students, including adequate English language instruct