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An important topic in English learner (EL) education is how ELs who are students with interrupted formal education, or SIFE, often face many serious challenges when attending school in the United States. Their educators also often encounter difficulties in meeting SIFE's needs.

 

An important topic in English learner (EL) education is how ELs who are students with interrupted formal education, or SIFE, often face many serious challenges when attending school in the United States. Their educators also often encounter difficulties in meeting SIFE's needs.

Immigrant students who have experienced interrupted formal education in their native countries will, on average, experience a two-year grade gap compared to other immigrant students.

This chapter proposes a conceptual framework that merges intersectionality and policy analysis as an analytical tool to understand the nuanced, multilayered, compounded educational inequality encountered specifically by low-income, Latino Spanish-speaking students in Arizona K-12 public schools as a

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.

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.

The Colorado Department of Education is requiring teachers to train in teaching ELs, to ensure that students learning English as a second language have teachers who can effectively communicate with them.

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

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.