Made in America is a riveting, firsthand portrait of life at Madison High, a prototypical public high school. Laurie Olsen spent two-and-a-half years in the Madison High community attending classes and interviewing teachers, administrators, students, and parents. Through their stories, we discover the contemporary version of the Americanization of immigrants -- a complex process that ultimately requires them to give up their national identities and mother tongues to be accepted in an academic and social world that then, ironically, denies them full participation. Olsen portrays immigrant students as they are "made in America" and begin to see that to become American is to take their place on the "racial map" of our nation.
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Made in America by Laurie Olsen, codirector of California Tomorrow, a nonprofit advocacy group for school reform, is a well-written study of life at a California high school. More than 20 percent of the students at this school were born in another country, and more than one-third speak limited English or come from non-English speaking homes. Olsen's portrayal of the kids and the struggles over policy between and within the faculty and administration is both moving and damning. Any parent or educator concerned with public education in the United States should read this important book; it offers an unretouched portrait of America.
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A powerful learning experience....Beautifully written and profound in its implications. I would make it required reading for every teacher. -- Jim Cummins, co-author of "Brave New Schools: Challenging Cultural Illiteracy through Global Learning Networks"
A strong, sensitive, and valuable book. -- Jonathan Kozol, author of "Savage Inequalities"
An important book. More than a portrait of a school, this is a portrait of America. -- William Ayers, author of "City Kids, City Teachers" and "A Kind and Just Parent"
Olsen skillfully offers us an opportunity to remake America into a multicultural and more democratic society. -- Ronald Takaki, author of "A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America"
A strong, sensitive, and valuable book. -- Jonathan Kozol, author of "Savage Inequalities"
An important book. More than a portrait of a school, this is a portrait of America. -- William Ayers, author of "City Kids, City Teachers" and "A Kind and Just Parent"
Olsen skillfully offers us an opportunity to remake America into a multicultural and more democratic society. -- Ronald Takaki, author of "A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America"
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puts a human face on the issue of immigrant education,
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This review is from: Made in America: Immigrant Students in Our Public Schools (Hardcover)
Unsure of how you feel about bilingual education? Even more likely, don't really understand what bilingual education is? Read this book. Laurie Olsen helps us put a human face on what has become a political question. Her clear and well-written portrait of one school puts the issue of language, emotional and sensitive as it can be, in concrete terms of pragmatic educational effectiveness: You can't learn what you don't understand. For anyone who cares about this important issue, or even feels as though they should.
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good book,
By Groovychic "working, student mom" (reno, nv) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Made in America: Immigrant Students in Our Public Schools (Paperback)
This was a requirement for a graduate level multicultural education course. It is an easy read and decently interesting. I would have never picked it up for pleasure reading. But, for a required text, it is a good choice.
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Immigrant Students in Our Public Schools,
This review is from: Made in America: Immigrant Students in Our Public Schools (Paperback)
This is a very good book. The book is written from a California school district perspective, but the pointview of the author reflects what is going on in many schools across the U.S. A good book for all teachers to read, even if you don't teach ESL. The book holds a truth which is, we as teachers must be our students' voice. Read it!!
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