1. LATINOS and EDUCATION ACRITICAL READER

2. Latino Immigrant Youth By Alexei Marquez Whitney Waites Aaliah Alhissan

3. Latino Youth Immigration, Education, and the future

4. - Push and pull factors and their impact on Latino families. The development of transnational families, separated by borders and thousands of miles, often results in children experiencing disruptions in school attendance (Ada 1998).

5. - Race, assimilation, and social mobility. This is so because Latinos are concentrated in the lowest paying jobs and many lack the skills and education needed to seek better paying alternatives (Smith, R. 2002).

6. - Latino immigrant students and prospects for the future. Education should serve as a means out of poverty. As it has for other groups in the past education should be the source of opportunity and a pathway to a better life.

7. Question What other strategy can help youth immigrants to be like other US youth?

8. Swimming On Oxygen, Resistance, and Possibility for Immigrant Youth under Siege

9. Policy ELLs are a fast growing populations NCLB doesn’t require high stake exit exams but will most likely be required by states with high immigrations rates Research shows that it takes 5-7 years to learn academic English yet students are still required to pass the test within 2 years. After 1 year for California and Arizona. High stakes testing is leading to increase in drop outs.

10. Standardized tests fail to measure the performance of ELL Students. This leads to these schools failing to make AYP. NCLB measures schools annual improvements on test scores but not improvements on disaggregated graduation rates. High stakes policies are becoming a tool of border control Valenzuela V O’Connell. She was 12 of 413 with a GPA of 3.84 and there was the possibility that she would invoke the “diploma penalty” Denied quality education and now denied a diploma. Best “Swimmers”.

11. Question With NCLB being a double edged sword for many students, what do you think is needed in order for these policies to change?

12. Community: Community held protests, became organized, even to the point of suing the state over improper English language assessments for ELLs 19 day hunger strike NLERAP o Radical transformation of research for social change o Schools: small, demographic and public o Curricula, pedagogies, assessments, and accountabilities that are inquiry based and transparent. o This was targeted for poor, working-class, immigrant students and this system of assessments, including a waiver for 4 of the content based NY Regents Exams meant higher graduation rates

13. Question There is still a fear for many teachers to go into battle for their students and the rights of their students. What are some ways that teachers could support their students without compromising their jobs?

14. International Schools: 90 countries 20 years less than 4 years in the US qualify as ELLs 9 schools Everyone (including faculty) are collective learners Pedagogy and curriculum rest on a belief of language as best acquired and developed when purposeful and integrated into content based study No more “wanting to stay quiet” They were learning from each other and didn’t feel “different”

15. Question How do you think these schools would separate their schools in terms of “jocks and burnouts”?

16. I can’t Go to College because I don’t Have Papers Incorporation Patterns of Latino Undocumented Youth

17. - Method of Study. -Thesis/Main Question. - Important Definition. - Undocumented Youth: High school Education

18. Question Considering our discussions last week, do you think the author’s claim that undocumented and documented students receive the same educational benefits is accurate?

19. Question - How does undocumented status limit the future of the students and how does it extend the process of invisibility that their relatives or families experience? - Undocumented Youth: After High school.

20. Question : What effect does legal status have on educational opportunity? How do documented and undocumented students differ? Undocumented Youth: Doomed to Long-term Poverty?

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