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Lew, Jamie – Teacher Education and Practice, 2012
Children of immigrants are the fastest-growing segment of the nation's children population. According to the U.S. Census (2007), approximately 16.4 million children, more than 1 in 5, are children of immigrants, most of whom are school-age population (aged 3-17 years). This large demographic shift is fundamentally changing the nation's schools and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigration, Immigrants, Teacher Education
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Singh, Sukhmani; Suarez-Orozco, Marcelo M. – Teacher Education and Practice, 2012
Immigrants are a fast-growing segment of the United States population. Presently, some 39.9 million immigrants call America home (Passel & Cohn, 2012; U.S. Census Bureau, 2011b). Today, immigrants come from all over the world, but most new Americans originate in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia. It is because of the mass migration of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Demography, Immigrants, Immigration