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Made in America: Immigrant Students in Our Public Schools

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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.

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.

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!!

A great book for you to better understand immigrant students' life or struggles in American public schools. It may make you have a different view about the importance of bilingual education. This is a great resource not only for the teachers or administrators who help the ESL/LEP students at school, also good for anyone who cares about America as a society.

Wonderful book! Amazing insight into immigrant students mindset of the American education system. Great discussion about ESL programs and the difficulties immigrants face when trying to assimilate in American schools. Interesting prospective on the dynamics of keeping ones culture while assimilating into new surroundings. The book has great diversity and touches on the American students perspective of immigrants within the public school system. It discusses the American students need for immigrants to assimilate completely into American society. I would recommend this book to all teachers, administrators, and education students to better understand the dynamics of their classroom.

Read this book for my master's class and found it very interesting. It flows well and only took a couple of days to finish. While I didn't agree with all the theories in the book, for the most part the author did a good job explaining the views of a wide range of immigrants.