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Oct 1, 2022Liked by Joel J Miller

But for today, the school age children who are new to this country are in our public schools. Most of them do not speak English and neither do their parents. Some classes in the lower levels of public school have bilingual teachers. But in the upper levels many of the teachers do not speak Spanish. Until the 3rd grade students are learning to read. After the 3rd grade they are reading to learn. In my school district, only 30% of 3rd graders are reading at their grade level and that percentage is a mix or variety of different reasons not just not knowing English. These children are the future. Some with help will progress. Some will not. And regardless of race or culture, not all parents help their students succeed in school. One of the most common problems in this is a student misses a whole block of reading or math often because they are tardy to school.

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The book doesn’t argue that there aren’t challenges to integration, but the numbers show that those kids will learn English and their economic prospects will ultimately surpass their parents and rise to the same level as native-born Americans. There’s every reason for hopeful engagement by professionals such as teachers; whatever the immediate difficulties, the long-term prospects are quite high.

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Oct 1, 2022·edited Oct 1, 2022Liked by Joel J Miller

Not true across the board. Recent years Asians (Indians & Chinese) have dominated the legal immigration (Employment based green cards). A considerable portion of them are highly educated & are scientists, doctors, engineers. If you look at the Indian American & Indian immigrant diaspora, they are the most economically successful ethnic group in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Americans. Immigration from India was only allowed from 1965 with Hart Cellar act and a considerable portion of the current diaspora are still naturalized citizens who came in on work visas - not even the first generation natural born Americans. The Sundars and Satyas.. As an aside Indian Americans have been dominating spelling bees for quite some time now. It has almost becoming a stereotype now that Fortune 500 CEOs will be of Indian origin (Sundar, Satya, Parag just to name a few). This group has had economic success unlike any other immigrant group in the US immigration history (Chinese and Nigerians come close).

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Oct 1, 2022·edited Oct 1, 2022Author

No argument from me. That’s captured in the research. Those groups fill out the 30% of immigrants with college degrees.

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