Latino Immigrant Youth and Interrupted Schooling: Dropouts, Dreamers and Alternative Pathways to College

Author:   Marguerite Lukes
Publisher:   Channel View Publications Ltd
Volume:   100
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9781783093434


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   17 February 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Marguerite Lukes
Publisher:   Channel View Publications Ltd
Imprint:   Multilingual Matters
Volume:   100
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.506kg
ISBN:  

9781783093434


ISBN 10:   1783093439
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   17 February 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Understanding Dropouts: Math and History Chapter 3: Pre-Migration Educational ""Choices:"" Interrupted Education in Context Chapter 4: Immigrant Young Adults Entering the U.S. Chapter 5: Pushouts, Shutouts and Holdouts: Entering, Exiting and Evading High School in the U.S. Chapter 6: Hard and Soft Skills: Academic Skills, English and Social Capital Among Migrant Young Adults Chapter 7: The Road Ahead for Young Adult Migrants: Institutional Dilemmas, Nagging Questions and Open Doors Appendix References Index"

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In this important new book Marguerite Lukes focuses on the educational needs and challenges faced by a population that is nearly invisible to the American mainstream: disenfranchised immigrant youth. Through her detailed analysis Lukes helps her readers to see beyond the one dimensional characterizations that typically appear in the media so that they can appreciate the grit and agency that many of them rely upon to survive. She also makes it clear why it is so important to their future and ours to address their educational needs. -- Pedro Noguera, New York University, USA Wise and compassionate, Lukes provides unique insights into the dreams, aspirations, and resiliency of young adult Latinos who attempt to persevere through the US educational system despite all odds. A stellar contribution to the field! -- Carola Suarez-Orozco, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Lukes offers compelling evidence that the barriers that Latino immigrant youth face in the United States have nothing to do with cultural deficiencies and everything to do with institutional neglect. She then offers a comprehensive blueprint for addressing this institutional neglect that is a must-read for anybody who is serious about improving the educational outcomes of Latino immigrant youth. -- Nelson Flores, University of Pennsylvania, USA This book about Latino immigrant youth and interrupted schooling is both clear and scholarly, providing a broad overview of issues influencing this specific population of students-about whom we still know very little. Policymakers, K-12 school administrators, adult education administrators, nonprofits, faculty, students, and community leaders will find the substance of this book inspirational and insightful, and will be motivated to act on behalf of these valued young adults and the academic institutions that they attend. -- Frank Hernandez Teachers College Record, November 12, 2015 Latino Immigrant Youth and Interrupted Schooling accomplishes the purpose of interrogating about current educational status of Latino young immigrants with interrupted schooling. Moreover it fills a gap in the literature of completions, dropouts, and discontinued education within migrant population. Lukes offers an enjoyable reading that describes individuals' educational trajectories from their countries of origin to the US. In a simple and direct style, she achieves the goal of thickening the problematic issue of Latino young students who do not complete secondary school. Professional and lay readers will appreciate the up-dated information of a less explored subset of immigrants, adding voices and faces to the sheer numbers. -- Laura Dubcovsky, University of California, Davis, USA LINGUIST List 26.3605, 2015


In this important new book Marguerite Lukes focuses on the educational needs and challenges faced by a population that is nearly invisible to the American mainstream: disenfranchised immigrant youth. Through her detailed analysis Lukes helps her readers to see beyond the one dimensional characterizations that typically appear in the media so that they can appreciate the grit and agency that many of them rely upon to survive. She also makes it clear why it is so important to their future and ours to address their educational needs. Pedro Noguera, New York University, USA Wise and compassionate, Lukes provides unique insights into the dreams, aspirations, and resiliency of young adult Latinos who attempt to persevere through the US educational system despite all odds. A stellar contribution to the field! Carola Suarez-Orozco, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Lukes offers compelling evidence that the barriers that Latino immigrant youth face in the United States have nothing to do with cultural deficiencies and everything to do with institutional neglect. She then offers a comprehensive blueprint for addressing this institutional neglect that is a must-read for anybody who is serious about improving the educational outcomes of Latino immigrant youth. Nelson Flores, University of Pennsylvania, USA


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Author Website:   https://cuny.academia.edu/MargueriteLukes

Marguerite Lukes is the Director of National Initiatives for the Internationals Network for Public Schools and Assistant Professor at City University of New York's LaGuardia Community College. She is also Co-Chair of the Adult Literacy and Adult Education Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association and an Executive Board Member for the New York State Association for Bilingual Education. With almost thirty years of experience in the field, the primary focus of her research is education policy, particularly concerning the experiences of immigrant language learners from high school level and beyond.

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Author Website:   https://cuny.academia.edu/MargueriteLukes

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