Marguerite Lukes

Broschiertes Buch

Latino Immigrant Youth and Interrupted Schooling

Dropouts, Dreamers and Alternative Pathways to College

Beschreibung

This book provides an accessible and academically rigorous commentary on immigrant young adults' educational experiences. With a particular emphasis on Latino immigrants, this book is the first of its kind to present research on dropouts from this community as a unique subgroup, making it relevant to policy-makers, academics and practitioners.

Autor

Marguerite Lukes is the Director of National Initiatives for the Internationals Network for Public Schools and Assistant Professor at City University of New York's LaGuardia Community College. She is also Co-Chair of the Adult Literacy and Adult Education Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association and an Executive Board Member for the New York State Association for Bilingual Education. With almost thirty years of experience in the field, the primary focus of her research is education policy, particularly concerning the experiences of immigrant language learners from high school level and beyond.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Multilingual Matters
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9781783093427
• ISBN-10: 1783093420
• Artikelnr.: 41770486