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The new college try
The “Ivy sisters,” who came from Cameroon to the Bronx, will be attending Dartmouth, Yale and Harvard in the fall, reports NBC. A video...

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 1, 20182 min read


Refuge, friendship and hope
In The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom, journalist Helen Thorpe describes the progress of newly...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 8, 20171 min read


NY cuts English classes for immigrants
Beginning English Language Learners (ELLs) need direct instruction in English writes Arthur Goldstein, an English as a Second Language...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 14, 20171 min read


Latinos go to college — but few earn 4-year degrees
Latinos’ high school graduation rates have soared and they’re far more likely to enroll in two- and four-year colleges. However Latino...

Joanne Jacobs
Oct 15, 20171 min read


Hispanic enrollment doubled in 20 years
The number of Hispanic students has nearly doubled in the last 20 years, and now makes up 22.7 percent of enrollees from preschool...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 31, 20171 min read


Newcomer schools: Separate and better?
Michael Krell teaches statistics at the International Academy, a program for immigrant students at Cardozo Educational Campus in...

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 24, 20172 min read


Where poor kids are learning — Texas
Only 4 percent of schools have closed the economic achievement gap, according to the Education Equality Index. Brownsville, Texas, a...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 26, 20171 min read


Welcome to Refugee High
Chicago’s Sullivan High has raised its enrollment and test scores by welcoming immigrants and refugees, reports Elly Fishman for Chicago...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 14, 20171 min read


‘An A in Harlem vs. an A in a majority-white school’
Teens Take Charge publicizes students’ views on school segregation in New York City. Photo: Brett Rawson When Yacine Fall went from a...

Joanne Jacobs
May 21, 20172 min read


Do refugees learn more in ‘international’ schools?
“Segregating” refugees may help them integrate, suggests the Hechinger Report’s Meredith Kolodner. Bowling Green, Kentucky has opened a...

Joanne Jacobs
May 8, 20172 min read


Why Indo-American kids bee good
In Bee-Brained, in Harper’s Magazine, Vauhini Vara, a former spelling champ, visits the all-Indian-American North South competition,...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 28, 20171 min read


For a more perfect union
Elementary schools have contributed to national discord by neglecting to teach American history and civic principles, writes E.D. Hirsch...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 10, 20172 min read


College ‘diversity council’ admits racism hoax
Posters calling for “white Americans” to report “illegal aliens” alarmed Gustavus Adolphus College students, who flooded Bias Response...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 26, 20171 min read


83% of science aces are immigrants’ kids
Indrani Das, 17, won the Regeneron Science Talent Search this year for her study of a possible approach to treating the death of neurons...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 19, 20171 min read


Schools get refugees, but no resources
El Cajon, just east of San Diego, has been a resettling refugees for years, reports Mark Keierleber on The 74. But now the Cajon Valley...

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 21, 20171 min read


Adios to the ‘immigrant paradox’
It’s called the “immigrant paradox.” Immigrants’ children do better in school and behave better than classmates from native-born families...

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 14, 20171 min read


Isaias seeks his future
In The Book of Isaias: A Child of Hispanic Immigrants Seeks His Own America, Daniel Connolly follows Isaias Ramos in his final year of...

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 3, 20171 min read
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