English language learners' nonparticipation and reticence in adult literacy classes are often presented problematically from a deficit lens of student "resistance" and "disengagement." This article draws from an ethnographic case study of Generation 1 learners, who are defined as adult-arrival immigrant learners, transitioning…

In reform-based science curricula, students' discursive participation is highly encouraged as a means of science learning as well as a goal of science education. However, Asian immigrant students are perceived to be quiet and passive in classroom discursive situations, and this reticence implies that they may face challenges in discourse-rich…

Anyone who laments that American young people are apathetic, uninvolved or not sufficiently outraged clearly is not up on the news. This article presents some news illustrating that young people are involved on some issues concerning the environment, the improvement of their schools, justice, the affordability of higher education, fairer immigrant…