Beyond Dreaming: Realizing the Promise of Educational Equity for Immigrant Youth

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

As immigration and asylum policies become increasingly restrictive, education remains a hope and promise for immigrant youth. Yet promises are not sufficient. Centuries of systemic disenfranchisement in schools must be countered through documented practices leading to measurable results. The four papers in this session explore multidimensional and tangible ways in which well-designed secondary high school communities can address policy, pedagogy, achievement and postsecondary access for immigrant students and have made real the promise of educational equity for immigrant populations in public secondary schools. The papers present original research on the International Network for Public Schools (INPS) and explore policy and practice challenges that are mitigated along with research on effective strategies across multiple geographies to shed light on scaleable approaches.

Sub Unit

• Division L - Educational Policies and Politics / Division L - Section 9: Policy Implementation and Going to Scale

Chair

• Carola Suarez-Orozco, Harvard University

Papers

• Tracing Historical Commitments to Creative Policy Negotiation within Internationals Network Public School - Reva Jaffe-Walter, Montclair State University

• Leveraging Language and Content Integration to Support Multilingual Newcomers - Kelley Riffenburgh, University of California - Irvine; Adriana Villavicencio, New York University

• Internationals Network for Public Schools’ Educational Impact on Immigrant Youth: The Difference in Attendance - Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng, New York University

• "It’s the Olympics of Teaching:” Supporting and Retaining Teachers of Immigrant Newcomer Youth - Marguerite Lukes, Internationals Network for Public Schools

Discussant

• Carola Suarez-Orozco, Harvard University