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Pfleger, Margo; Yang, David – 1987
The Preparation for American Secondary Schools (PASS) program, added to the federal Overseas Refugee Training Program in 1985, was evaluated for its effectiveness in preparing Southeast Asian refugees for American education. The study compared the school performance of students with PASS training to that of students who did not receive PASS…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cambodians, Cultural Awareness, Educational Background
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Gardner, Robert W.; And Others – Population Bulletin, 1989
With heavy immigration fueled by U.S. immigration law changes in 1965 and the influx of over 700,000 Indochinese refugees since the Vietnam War ended in 1975, the number of Asian Americans grew from 1.4 million in 1970 to 3.5 million, 1.5 percent of the U.S. population, by the April 1980 census and an estimated 5.1 million, 2.1 percent of the U.S.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian Americans, Birth Rate, Chinese Americans
Rumbaut, Ruben G.; Ima, Kenji – 1988
This report is a comparative study, conducted in 1986-87 in San Diego, California, of the adaptation of refugee youth from Vietnam, Cambodia, Indochina, and Laos. The project examined both successes and problems of these refugee youth regarding their educational and occupational attainments and aspirations, and evaluated their prospects for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acculturation, Asian Americans, Cambodians
Illinois Eastern Community Colleges, Olney. – 1992
The Snap-On Tools Workplace Literacy Grant developed a curriculum for training adult workers in technical math and reading, English as a Second Language (ESL), and blueprint reading. Curriculum development was based on a workplace audit. Reading levels increased an average of 0.8 of a grade level. Flexibility and implementation of adult student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Asian Americans
Guthrie, Larry F.; Fisher, Charles W. – 1983
The Significant Bilingual Instructional Features (SBIF) study identified, described, and verified features of bilingual instruction of a wide variety of limited English proficient (LEP) students. This report describes a two-year substudy tracing the experience of 85 LEP students from five nationally distributed sites representing varied…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian Americans, Bilingual Education, Classroom Communication
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
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