Immigrant Student Achievement and Education Policy

Description

This book examines immigrant student achievement and education policy across a range of Western nations. It is divided into 3 sections: Part 1 introduces the topic of immigrant student achievement and the performance disadvantage that is consistently reported across a range of international jurisdictions. Part 2 then presents national profiles from scholars in ten countries (England, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Netherlands, Republic of Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand). These educational jurisdictions were selected because they represent a range of Western nations engaged in large-scale reform efforts geared towards enhancing their immigrant students’ achievement. Each of the national profiles provides a brief overview of the evolution of the cultural composition of their respective school-aged student population; explains the trajectory of achievement results in non-immigrant and immigrant student groups in relation to both national and international large-scale assessment measures; and discusses the effectiveness of policy responses that have been adopted to close the achievement gap between non-immigrant and immigrant student populations. It also examines the relationships between education policies and immigrant student achievement and discusses how education policies have evolved across various cultural contexts. In conclusion, Part 3 analyzes cross-cultural approaches designed to address the performance disadvantage of immigrant students and proposes future areas of inquiry stemming from the national profiles. The book offers insights into a diverse cross-section of nations and policy approaches to addressing the performance disadvantage. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Immigrant Student Achievement and the Performance Disadvantage (Ozge Bilgili, Louis Volante, Don Klinger)....Pages 3-15 Front Matter ....Pages 17-17 Immigrant Student Achievement and Educational Policy in England (John Jerrim)....Pages 19-33 Immigrant Student Achievement and Education Policy in Germany (Janna Teltemann, Dominique Rauch)....Pages 35-52 Immigrant Student Achievement and Educational Policy in Italy (Marco Catarci)....Pages 53-67 Immigrant Student Achievement and Education Policy in Sweden (Lisbeth Lundahl, Michael Lindblad)....Pages 69-85 Immigrant Student Achievement and Education Policy in Finland (Heidi Harju-Luukkainen, Nele McElvany)....Pages 87-102 Immigrant Student Achievement and Education Policy in the Netherlands (Jaap Scheerens, Greetje van der Werf)....Pages 103-118 Immigrant Student Achievement and Educational Policy in Ireland (Merike Darmody, Emer Smyth)....Pages 119-135 Immigrant Student Achievement and Educational Policy in Canada (Liying Cheng, Wei Yan)....Pages 137-153 Immigrant Student Achievement and Education Policy in Australia (Anthony Welch)....Pages 155-173 Immigrant Student Achievement and Education Policy in New Zealand (Jenny Poskitt)....Pages 175-193 Front Matter ....Pages 195-195 Cross-Cultural Approaches to Mitigating the Immigrant Student Performance Disadvantage (Don Klinger, Louis Volante, Ozge Bilgili)....Pages 197-206 Back Matter ....Pages 207-214