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Knight, Caroline – Democracy & Education, 2008
The early 1980s saw an influx of Southeast Asian refugees from various demographic groups and backgrounds to Minnesota. As teachers, the author and her colleagues regularly added children from these groups to their classrooms, receiving little explanation of a student's history or language proficiency. To counteract increasing teacher resentment…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Refugees, Hmong People, Immigrants
Baizerman, Michael; Hendricks, Glenn – 1988
Presented is a report on a comparative study of the educational and occupational aspirations and expectations of Cambodian, Hmong, Laotian, and Vietnamese adolescents and youth in the Minneapolis-St.Paul (Twin Cities), Minnesota, metropolitan area. Data were culled from interviews with about 160 informants using a "story" approach as a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Acculturation, Asian Americans