January 2005 Meeting

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SSRC Working Group on Education and Migration

Published on: Jun 19, 2006

Immigrant Education, Institutions and Agency
A group of scholars of immigrant education from a range of disciplinary backgrounds came together in New York in January 2005 to discuss the ways in which educational institutions in the United States have responded to the growing numbers of immigrant students and how immigrant students and their families navigate the education system.

Topics discussed included:

Political institutions, including the role of school board and state and local political bodies in shaping hiring practices and curriculum, including issues of representation and the impact of districting.
The impact of general educational policies on immigrant students, including affirmative action policy, No Child Left Behind, and the high stakes testing movement.
The impact of impact of policies specifically for immigrant students, including ESL and other language programs, special high schools for newcomers, tutoring and mentoring programs, etc.
Unstated policies and implementation, including the crucial role of teachers, guidance counselors and other administrative staff in implementing policy in the classroom.
The intersection of immigrant education policy with other policy domains, including citizenship policy and welfare policy.

Members of the group are currently writing papers on these questions that will be published as an edited volume. At the next meeting of the group, in July 2005, the group will discuss the papers and begin to develop an agenda for research that can provide the basis for informed policy in the area of immigrant education.

Meeting participants:

Richard Alba, (sociology) State University of New York at Albany
Luis Fraga, (political science) Stanford University
Greta Gibson, (education and anthropology) University of California, Santa Cruz
Timothy Leinbach, Teachers College, Columbia University
Vivian Louie, (sociology) School of Education, Harvard University
Alex Stepick, (anthropology and sociology) Florida International University
Carol Stepick, Immigration and Ethnicity Institute, Florida International University
Carola Suárez-Orozco, (psychology) New York University, Steinhardt School of Education
Lillian Tafoya, President, California Latino School Boards Association
Josh DeWind, International Migration Program, SSRC
Jennifer Holdaway, International Migration Program, SSRC
Sheri Ranis, Education Research Program, SSRC

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