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Bilgili, Özge – OECD Publishing, 2017
This paper focuses on children with a migration background and conceptualises their migration experience as adversity. The paper adapts the resilience framework to understand how immigrant children can overcome adversity. The paper discusses policy models that can be derived from adopting a resilience approach to the measurement of immigrant…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Immigration, Models, Resilience (Psychology)
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Trejos-Castillo, Elizabeth; Vazsonyi, Alexander T. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2009
Though official data document that Hispanic youth are at a great risk for early sexual intercourse, STDs, and teen pregnancy, only few etiological studies have been conducted on Hispanic youth; almost no work has examined potential generational differences in these behaviors, and thus, these behaviors may have been mistakenly attributed to…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Acculturation, Child Rearing, Pregnancy
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Perry, Laura – European Education, 2009
This article examines equity in national systems of education in terms of differences in student outcomes, as measured by mathematics achievement scores on Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2003. The author uses four measures for assessing equity in student outcomes: (1) the strength of the relationship between student…
Descriptors: Privatization, Equal Education, School Choice, Mathematics Achievement
Stagner, Matthew; Goerge, Robert; Ballard, Pete – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2009
This report makes a number of recommendations on new directions for the development of child well-being indicators. For developmental transitions throughout early childhood, the authors call for standardizing birth records across states, collecting additional data at immunization visits, and creating common assessments at kindergarten entry. For…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Information Systems, Social Indicators, Kindergarten
Laosa, Luis M. – 1989
This paper explores the forms of experience associated with immigration and settlement that are likely to influence the course of adaptation, adjustment, and development of Hispanic immigrant children. Several lines of research and theory on psychosocial stress, coping, and development were reviewed and examined for their relevance to…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Adjustment (to Environment), Child Development, Coping