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Kent Spanos, Kristin – George W. Bush Institute, Education Reform Initiative, 2022
The Biden Administration expects to resettle 95,000 Afghan evacuees in communities across the United States by September 2022. Some evacuees come to the United States with strong English proficiency and years of experience working as entrepreneurs or community leaders or for the United States military. Others, especially women, have had limited…
Descriptors: Refugees, Land Settlement, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Malchiodi, Alessandro – RAND Corporation, 2014
This dissertation comprises three essays that empirically examine the educational outcomes of for-profit college students, military enlistees and immigrant youth. All of these are groups of "non-average" students that, in different contexts, pose challenges to the traditional provision of education. Therefore, their outcomes need to be…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Proprietary Schools, Outcomes of Education, College Students
Malchiodi, Alessandro – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation comprises three essays that empirically examine the educational outcomes of for-profit college students, military enlistees and immigrant youth. All of these are groups of "non-average" students that, in different contexts, pose challenges to the traditional provision of education. Therefore, their outcomes need to be…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Proprietary Schools, Outcomes of Education, College Students
Darnell, Patricia – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study was designed to explore the acculturation experiences of military-related immigrant wives enrolled in an ESL program in a selected community college. More specifically, the purpose of the study was to understand the personal and structural forces that facilitated or hindered their acculturation process into their community of residence…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Immigrants, Females, Spouses