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Humphries, Jennifer; Knight-Grofe, Janine; McDine, David – Canadian Bureau for International Education, 2012
This annual report explores the state of international education in Canada, taking an in-depth look at international students, study abroad by Canadian students, Canadian education overseas, as well as the overall internationalization agenda in Canada. The report features results of an international student survey and case studies from member…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Annual Reports, Foreign Students
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Jeynes, William H. – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2004
In this article I address some assertions made by one of the most outstanding educational historians, Diane Ravitch, regarding the relation between immigration rates and academic achievement among children in the United States. In her book The Great School Wars Ravitch asserted that low immigration levels during the 1920s to early 1960s period…
Descriptors: Historians, Immigration, Academic Achievement, Immigrants
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Cardona, Jose Ruben Parra; Busby, Dean M.; Wampler, Richard S. – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2004
The transgenerational cultural identity model offers a detailed understanding of the immigration experience by challenging agendas of assimilation and by expanding on existing theories of cultural identity. Based on this model, immigration is a complex phenomenon influenced by many variables such as sociopsychological dimensions, family,…
Descriptors: Immigration, Acculturation, Identification (Psychology), Cultural Influences
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Cornfield, Daniel B.; Arzubiaga, Angela – Peabody Journal of Education, 2004
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education (1954), recent global immigration to the U.S. interior compels local education systems that are relatively inexperienced with immigration to address new integrating and segmenting tendencies expressed by the growing and diversifying number of immigrants from Africa, Asia, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigration, Focus Groups, Immigrants