Made in America: Immigrant Students in Our Public Schools

by Laurie Olsen

Book Overview

As the United States reexamines its borders and immigration policies, the debate over educating immigrant students in our public schools has divided Americans. What can teachers and immigrant students... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595583491
• ISBN13: 9781595583499
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Immigrant Students in Our Public Schools

This is a very good book. The book is written from a California school district perspective, but the pointview of the author reflects what is going on in many schools across the U.S. A good book for all teachers to read, even if you don't teach ESL. The book holds a truth which is, we as teachers must be our students' voice. Read it!!

Immigrants Perspective on American Education

Wonderful book! Amazing insight into immigrant students mindset of the American education system. Great discussion about ESL programs and the difficulties immigrants face when trying to assimilate in American schools. Interesting prospective on the dynamics of keeping ones culture while assimilating into new surroundings. The book has great diversity and touches on the American students perspective of immigrants within the public school system. It discusses the American students need for immigrants to assimilate completely into American society. I would recommend this book to all teachers, administrators, and education students to better understand the dynamics of their classroom.

puts a human face on the issue of immigrant education

Unsure of how you feel about bilingual education? Even more likely, don't really understand what bilingual education is? Read this book. Laurie Olsen helps us put a human face on what has become a political question. Her clear and well-written portrait of one school puts the issue of language, emotional and sensitive as it can be, in concrete terms of pragmatic educational effectiveness: You can't learn what you don't understand. For anyone who cares about this important issue, or even feels as though they should.