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Title of Product
Immigrant Children and Youth: Enabling Their Success at School
Name of Author(s)
Howard Adelman, Linda Taylor
Name of Producer
Center for Mental Health in Schools
Date of Production
2011
Language of the review
English
Language of the product
English
Level
National
Type of product
Online Publication, Awareness Material (Leaflet, Brochure, etc)
Thematic Area
Integration of immigrants students
Target Group
Headmasters, Teachers
Website of the Product
http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/immigrant.pdf
Description of Contents
The paper mainly deals with immigrant children and youth. This short focuses on what implicates schools improvement policy and practice. The issues which are discussed in the paper are different reasons why the families migrate to another place, concerns that are resulted from immigrant students, prevailing school practices for addressing immigrant concerns, a framework for broadening what schools and communities do, and implications for policy.
Review
Because it gives good and rational information about the problem to prevent the questions which can appear in the readers’ minds, the paper can be said to be elaborate and useful. It also show hints as to how to put an end to this problem. Furthermore, as it shows the reasons for other cases which are related to the problem, and shows ways how to end them, it has beneficial sides in the phase of solving the problem.

20 December 2014

Final Partners’ meeting

The fourth partners’ meeting took place in Florence (IT) on 15 December 2014. The meeting had the objective to check the activities carried out since the third meeting of the project and share and assess the in progress results. A special focus has been dedicated to the presentation of the strategies to solve the case scenarios.