Learning a New Land

Learning a New Land
Author: Carola Suárez-Orozco
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0674044118


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One child in five in America is the child of immigrants, and their numbers increase each year. Based on an extraordinary interdisciplinary study that followed 400 newly arrived children from the Caribbean, China, Central America, and Mexico for five years, this book provides a compelling account of the lives, dreams, academic journeys, and frustrations of these youngest immigrants.


Learning a New Land
Language: en
Pages: 437
Authors: Carola Suárez-Orozco
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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One child in five in America is the child of immigrants, and their numbers increase each year. Based on an extraordinary interdisciplinary study that followed 4
Learning a New Land
Language: en
Pages: 437
Authors: Carola Suárez-Orozco
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-01 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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One child in five in America is the child of immigrants, and their numbers increase each year. Very few will return to the country they barely remember. Who are
Children of Immigration
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: Carola Suárez-Orozco
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Now in the midst of the largest wave of immigration in history, America, mythical land of immigrants, is once again contemplating a future in which new arrivals
Education
Language: en
Pages: 389
Authors: Marcelo Suárez-Orozco
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-07-05 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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In an age of catastrophes—unchecked climate change, extreme poverty, forced migrations, war, and terror, all compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic—how can sch
Creating a Learning Society
Language: en
Pages: 427
Authors: Joseph E. Stiglitz
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-06 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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“A superb new understanding of the dynamic economy as a learning society, one that goes well beyond the usual treatment of education, training, and R&D.”—