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Gandara, Patricia; Orfield, Gary – Language Policy, 2012
The United States is home to the largest number of immigrants of any nation (United Nations 2006). In 2005, 38.5 million residents of the U.S. were foreign born. As a result, an increasing number of children in the public schools are either immigrants or the children of immigrants: more than one of every five. Most of these children come from…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Court Litigation, Second Language Learning, Immigrants
Gandara, Patricia; Orfield, Gary – Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2010
This paper reviews the research on the impact of segregation on Latino and English Language Learner (ELL) students, including new empirical research conducted in Arizona. It also reviews court decisions regarding students' rights to be integrated with their mainstream peers, and provides data on the increasing segregation of Arizona's Latino and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Student Rights, English (Second Language), Court Litigation