
Portraits of Promise
Voices of Successful Immigrant Students
Michael Sadowski(Author)
Harvard Educational Publishing Group
Will be published approx. on 28. February 2013
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-1-61250-517-6 (ISBN)
Description
By 2040, more than 30 percent of students in the United States will be immigrants or the children of immigrants. What factors can help these young people thrive in school, despite the many obstacles they face? And how can school staff best support immigrant students' academic and personal success? In Portraits of Promise, educators hear from the ultimate experts--successful newcomer students who have been in the United States for five years or less.
Drawing on the students' own stories, the book highlights the kinds of support and resources that help students engage positively with school culture, establish supportive peer networks, form strong bonds with teachers, manage competing expectations from home and school, and navigate the challenges of high-stakes testing and the college application process.
Drawing on the students' own stories, the book highlights the kinds of support and resources that help students engage positively with school culture, establish supportive peer networks, form strong bonds with teachers, manage competing expectations from home and school, and navigate the challenges of high-stakes testing and the college application process.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
375 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61250-517-6 (9781612505176)
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Michael Sadowski is an assistant professor of education at Bard College, USA. He is the editor of Adolescents at School: Perspectives on Youth, Identity, and Education and Teaching Immigrant and Second-Language Students: Strategies for Success, and the author of In a Queer Voice: Journeys of Resilience from Adolescence to Adulthood.