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Helping Newcomer Students Succeed in Secondary Schools and Beyond book cover

Helping Newcomer Students Succeed in Secondary Schools and Beyond

This report, based on a 3-year national research study, has been written for educators and policy makers to focus attention on newcomer adolescent English language learners at the middle and high school grades and to communicate promising practices for serving their educational and social needs. Learn more.

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Refugee Families and Refugee Youth Videos
Learn more about these new videos from the COR Center.

Resource Corner

Browse our collection of free downloadable digests including

Establishing an Effective Newcomer Program

Integrated Skills in the ESL/EFL Classroom

Promoting Secondary School Transitions for Immigrant Adolescents


Strategies for Success: Engaging Immigrant Students in Secondary Schools

Culture Profiles
Learn about refugee populations living in the United States.

  

English Language Learners

Immigrant Education

Students from non-English-speaking backgrounds are the fastest growing segment of the K–12 student population in the United States. An increasing number of these students are newcomers—recent arrivals to the United States who have limited or no English language proficiency and who often have had limited formal education in their native countries.

Several of CAL’s projects and resources are designed to support the implementation of programs for immigrant students, including newcomers.

Featured Project

Exemplary Programs for Newcomer English Language Learners at the Secondary Level

Learn more about this project funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Other Projects

The Center for Applied Linguistics is involved in a variety of projects related to immigrant education. Read more.

Publications and Resources

Quality Counts Cover ImageQuality Counts 2009: Portrait of a Population
How English-Language Learners Are Putting Schools to the Test
CAL worked with Education Week to create a downloadable PDF of selected articles from the recent Quality Counts 2009, the latest in a series of annual report cards tracking state education policies and outcomes.

This PDF features three articles from the report that reference CAL’s work on the education of English language learners. Learn more.