To the best of my knowledge, the United States is the most diverse country in the world. Every year, thousands of immigrants come to the United States. My family is among those immigrants. My father and mother were at the age of sixty five and fifty when we entered the country. They had many difficu...

This exceptional book looks at educating the immigrant child by making the educator more aware of the inner workings of these children. The book is sectioned into two parts. The first describes how to get inside the mind of an immigrant child to understand their feelings and special needs. This ...

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, education for immigrants and Mexican-American children was a major problem. As both groups started migrating across parts of the United States, questions about what to do about educating the children started being asked. Unfortunately, tea...

Many Hong Kong citizens think that new immigrants from China cause a lot of problems; however, the newcomers themselves may have their own difficulties. These problems, if not properly managed, will probably bring about more chaos in Hong Kong. This essay will first describe these problems in four a...

Immigration to America in the mind of a foreigner is more than but a dream that lasts for a mere moment of rest. The dream they posses of a land of peace and opportunity doesn't end with the rising sun. Their dream is a taste for the reality they long for all day and night. This longing toward ...

In "At-Risk Students/Educating Parents," Edward Hegstrom writes about a unique program designed to help immigrant students by educating their parents. The program called Parent Academy was designed by the Metropolitan Organization and works by "[encouraging] Spanish-speaking parents t...

The original objective of bilingual education was to allow students who didn't speak English well understand the curriculum and avoid falling behind in their academic studies, while at the same time teaching them English as a second language. Many parents want their children to be enrolled in b...

Bilingual Education For decades, immigrant children have been taught in their native languages in schools across the country while slowly and simultaneously receiving English as a second language. But like anything, bilingual education is not without its flaws. In fact, it's plagued with them. ...

People in today\'s society have opposite opinions on how to approach the issue of bilingual education. The sides are split on the issue of teaching bilingual education in United States schools. There are many excellent points and arguments for each side of the tape. Personally, I chose to believe th...

hey guys...i wrote this paper and got an A. you can delete the part about richard rodriguez but it is about bilingual education and how it works. good luck. Bilingual Education: An Alternate ApproachWhen an immigrant moves to America, he or she should be required to speak English, our national langu...

Bilingual Education Bilingual Education has been a debated issue for decades now. Who benefits from a failing program? Being taught subject matter in one's own mother language is hard to do sometimes, grasping the meaning of the lecture is not an easy task for all students, let alone being taught...

Imagine being an immigrant from a country where the Spanish language is practically ubiquitous. Now imagine trying to learn in an American school using a foreign language and being expected to move into the mainstream with the other children. For most English-proficient people, this scenario may be ...

Bilingual Education's Obsoleteness Throughout the world, language defines who you are and where you come from. Something unique to the United States of America is that we not only have one language that unites us, we have hundreds that separate us; that is the core of the problem. Instead of ...

Why More Hispanics Now Than Ever Are Earning College DegreesYoung Hispanics today are reaping the fruit that our ancestors planted many generations back. Most of our families immigrated to the United States from other countries. Some of our families were native to the land before it was part of the ...

Here in the United States only those with money get to accomplish their dreams. Some who some do not have money to accomplish them with scholarships or financial aid. Some colleges or institutes they don't want undocumented immigrants in schools, but they can't say no to anyone...

History has shown us that Europeans are the only ones to have ever really done anything of significance in the world and that Europeans are the staple of a successful society. On the contrary, other countries had already established a working collective community until the Europeans came along and ...

America's Role In the Next Century As one of the most powerful and productive nations on earth today, America has many goals to persue in the next century. A few of these goals would be better employment status, less school violence, and more emphasison education. Presently, people of the...

Recently, the Canadian government changed the education system to include provincial exams for grade 10 students, because the government decided that more standardized exams would help students achieve. However, the new system is a detriment rather that a benefit toward students¡¯ marks. Standard...

Imagine the world where people are equal. Social, academic, and political classes are vanished, People with the same mental capabilities sharing land and resources equally. Social life is a reflection of an individual's relations with people, economy, and education. Just like in the world of...

A lot of controversies are going on about "social promotions" in the new York school system, and it is difficult to guess what educational policy will be in this new era. In some ways it depends on who will be the next schools chancellor and also it depends on the statistics...

What kind of action or behavior is plagiarism? The answers are varieties. Also, people in a different culture have their own concepts of plagiarism. In many countries especially in Asian countries, either parents or instructors always expect their children or students who can study hard and have goo...

Continued Education These two words that can change your life with in as little as two for most course. But there is still a lot of issues that needs to be addressed when you are think about to continuing your education and that is what we will be discussing for the next few minutes. The N...

The proclaimed objective of school reformers that students would have access to common schools regardless of religion, social class, sex and skin color proved to be insincere. Access to common schooling did not imply equal access for all regardless of race, religion or any other factor that could b...

Bilingual Education's ObsoletenessThroughout the world, language defines who you are and where you come from. Something unique to the United States of America is that we not only have one language that unites us, we have hundreds that separate us; that is the core of the problem. Instead of forcing ...

Bilingual EducationI am sure that if I was improperly placed in a bilingual program, others have also. How does this happen? What "characteristics" show school officials that a student needs the classes to begin with? These officials seem to think that standardized tests and parent questionnaires...