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Title Immigrant student achievement and education policy : cross-cultural approaches / Louis Volante, Don Klinger, Ozge Bilgili, editors
Published Cham : Springer, 2018

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Series Policy implications of research in education ; 9
Policy implications of research in education ; 9.
Contents Part I: Introduction -- Immigrant student achievement and the performance disadvantage / Ozge Bilgili, Louis Volante, and Don Klinger -- Part II: National profiles -- Immigrant student achievement and educational policy in England / John Jerrim -- Immigrant student achievement and education policy in Germany / Janna Teltemann and Dominique Rauch -- Immigrant student achievement and educational policy in Italy / Marco Catarci -- Immigrant student achievement and education policy in Sweden / Lisbeth Lundahl and Michael Lindblad -- Immigrant student achievement and education policy in Finland / Heidi Harju-Luukkainen and Nele McElvany -- Immigrant student achievement and education policy in the Netherlands / Jaap Scheerens and Greetje van der Werf -- Immigrant student achievement and educational policy in Ireland / Merike Darmody and Erner Smyth -- Immigrant Student Achievement and Educational Policy in Canada / Liying Cheng and Wei Yan -- Immigrant student achievement and education policy in Australia / Anthony Welch -- Immigrant student achievement and education policy in New Zealand / Jenny Poskitt -- Part III: Conclusion -- Cross-cultural approaches to mitigating the immigrant student performance disadvantage / Don Klinger, Louis Volante, and Ozge Bilgili
Summary This book examines immigrant student achievement and education policy across a range of Western nations. It is divided into 3 sections: Part 1 introduces the topic of immigrant student achievement and the performance disadvantage that is consistently reported across a range of international jurisdictions. Part 2 then presents national profiles from scholars in ten countries (England, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Netherlands, Republic of Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand). These educational jurisdictions were selected because they represent a range of Western nations engaged in large-scale reform efforts geared towards enhancing their immigrant students' achievement. Each of the national profiles provides a brief overview of the evolution of the cultural composition of their respective school-aged student population; explains the trajectory of achievement results in non-immigrant and immigrant student groups in relation to both national and international large-scale assessment measures; and discusses the effectiveness of policy responses that have been adopted to close the achievement gap between non-immigrant and immigrant student populations. It also examines the relationships between education policies and immigrant student achievement and discusses how education policies have evolved across various cultural contexts. In conclusion, Part 3 analyzes cross-cultural approaches designed to address the performance disadvantage of immigrant students and proposes future areas of inquiry stemming from the national profiles. The book offers insights into a diverse cross-section of nations and policy approaches to addressing the performance disadvantage
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 28, 2018)
In Springer eBooks
Subject Immigrant students -- Education
Academic achievement.
Education and state.
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
Academic achievement
Education and state
Form Electronic book
Author Volante, Louis, editor.
Klinger, Don, editor
Bilgili, Ozge, editor
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