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Zusatztext "Gunderson's book makes an important contribution to the literature on the academic achievement of immigrant students. It represents essential reading for researchers and policy-makers concerned with school improvement in contexts of increasing cultural and linguistic diversity...Gunderson succeeds admirably in revealing the human face behind the sometimes dense and complex quantitative data."-- Jim Cummins, The University of Toronto Informationen zum Autor Lee Gunderson Klappentext This book-for teachers, teacher educators, school and district administrators, policy makers, and researchers who want to know about literacy, cultural diversity, and students who speak little or no English-offers a rich picture of the incred Zusammenfassung This book—for teachers, teacher educators, school and district administrators, policy makers, and researchers who want to know about literacy, cultural diversity, and students who speak little or no English—offers a rich picture of the incred Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface: Hopes and Aspirations. Part I: Background and Design. Increasing Diversity and English and Academic Achievement. Reading, Language, and Immigrant Achievement. The Setting, the Population, and the Measures. Part II: Findings of the Studies. Demographic and Descriptive Findings. Reading Models and Traditional Analyses. Multiple Case Studies, Students' Views, and Secondary Achievement. One Immigrant-One Story. Part III: Conclusions and Implications. Summary, Conclusions, Speculations, Observations, and Conundrums.
