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    Why and how does source country matter? The effects of home countries and immigrant communities on foreign-born student achievement

    1/1/08 - Conger, D., Schwartz, A.E., Stiefel, L.

    Objective: This paper explores the effect of the economic conditions of source countries and the human capital characteristics of coethnic immigrant communities on foreign-born students' reading and math achievement. Methods: We use data on New York City public school foreign-born students from 39 countries merged with Census data on thecharacteristics of the city's immigrants, and United Nations data on the economic conditions of countries. We estimate regressions of student achievement on...

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    Why some schools with Latino children beat the odds and others don't

    1/1/06 - C William Morris Institute School of Public Affairs,

    The research team for this study “found 12 elementary and middle schools in Arizona -- schools whose students are mostly Latino and mostly poor -- that are ‘beating the odds’ on reading and math scores. . . . The research team found six keys to success that can translate into broader messages for education policy and strategy. These are (a) clear bottom line; (b) ongoing assessment; (c) strong, steady principal; (d) collaborative solutions; (e) stick with the program; and (f) built to...

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    Working Dads: Final Report of the Fathers at Work Initiative

    1/1/09 - Shayne Spaulding, Jean Baldwin Grossman, Dee Wallace

    "During the past several decades, many efforts have focused on the crisis that lies at the intersection of proliferating single-parent households, absent fathers and poverty. In 2001, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation launched Fathers at Work to test approaches for helping young low-income noncustodial fathers provide for themselves and their children; the project was designed to inform practitioners and policymakers about effective interventions for this population. Six community-based...

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    Working without a net: How new teachers from three prominent alternate route programs describe their first year on the job

    1/1/07 - National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality,

    Working Without a Net provides additional results from the new-teacher survey conducted by Public Agenda. It focuses on new teachers in high-needs schools, comparing the perspectives of those from traditional teacher education versus those from three alternate-route programs: Teach for America, Troops to Teachers, and The New Teacher Project.

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