Although research on minority youth has established the value of coethnic spaces for safe ethnic identity exploration, research has seldom examined how youth in these spaces draw ethnic boundaries or offered appropriate frameworks addressing boundary-setting. This study uses Berry's acculturation framework to explore ethnic boundary-setting within…

The innovative newcomer program concept, developed as a model to meet the needs of the growing limited-English-proficient (LEP) population in American classrooms, is described. Newcomer programs function as temporary stopovers for recently arrived LEP immigrant and refugee students. They operate on the assumption that LEP newcomer students need a…