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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 post highlights a new website which will serve as a resource bank for ideas for educating ELs and students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE).

The research literature finds that growing up with unauthorized immigrant parents places childrennearly 80 percent of whom were born in the United Statesat a disadvantage. These children are more exposed to a number of risk factors than children of immigrants generally and all U.S.

The histories that resettled refugee children bring to classrooms in the United States are multiple and varied. Refugees come from many countries and many socioeconomic, political, linguistic, and ethnic backgrounds.

Many schools across the nation are working to support SLIFE.

This article presents qualitative research findings about the characteristics and prior schooling experiences of "long-term English language learners (LTELLs)," who have attended U.S.