Alec Ian Gershberg is associate professor at the New School's Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy in New York City Anne Danenberg is a research associate at the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) Patricia Sanchez is an assistant professor of culture, literacy, and language in the Division of Bicultural-Bilingual Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio
Acknowledgments
p. ix
Abbreviations
p. xiii
Immigrant Education--The Program and Policy Landscape
p. 1
Recent Immigrant and ELL Students and Their Schools
p. 17
School Achievement and Resources: The Differing Experiences of Recent Immigrant and ELL Students
p. 45
Recent Immigrant Challenges and Public School Responses
p. 67
The Debate over Language Acquisition: Caught between "Bilingual" Education and English Immersio
p. 97
Educator Evaluations of Language Assessment, Placement, and Accountability Systems
p. 117
Mapping Recent Immigrant Students onto the Education Policy Landscape: Summary, Policy Recommendations, and Directions for the Future
p. 143
Epilogue: Public Schools Caught in the Hypocrisy of Immigration Policy and Politics
p. 153
California State Programs Serving Immigrant and ELL Students
p. 157
Data Sources, Descriptive Methods, and Additional Quantitative Analysis
p. 163
Selection Processes and Methods for Interviews
p. 189
Coding Criteria for Language Assessment and Accountability Analysis
p. 205
Additional Discussion on General Impressions of the Academic Performance Index (API)
p. 207
Sample Home Language Survey
p. 211
References
p. 213
Additional Readings
p. 223
About the Authors
p. 229
Index
p. 231
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