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Academic Performance of Immigrant Students in Minnesota

Academic Performance of Immigrant Students in Minnesota. Presentation to the Citizens League Study Committee on Immigration and Higher Education July 19, 2006. Key questions. How many immigrant students are there in Minnesota schools? Where do they come from?

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Academic Performance of Immigrant Students in Minnesota

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  1. Academic Performance of Immigrant Students in Minnesota Presentation to the Citizens League Study Committee on Immigration and Higher Education July 19, 2006

  2. Key questions • How many immigrant students are there in Minnesota schools? • Where do they come from? • What kinds of immigration status do they have? • How well are immigrant students performing? • Are some immigrant communities performing better than others? • What challenges do immigrant students face? • Do students from different immigrant communities face different challenges?

  3. How many immigrant students are there in Minnesota schools?

  4. Census data In Minnesota: • Approximately 96,000 children of foreign-born parents in Minnesota schools. • 10% of students in Pre-K through 5th grades are children of foreign-born parents. • 9% of students in 6th – 12th grades are children of foreign-born parents. U.S. Census of Population and Housing, 1 Percent PUMS, 2000

  5. LEP Students in Minnesota Schools 6.96% of Minnesota public school students are “Limited English Proficient” (57,665 total) The percentage of LEP students varies significantly between districts: • St. Paul: 38% • Willmar: 14% • Cass Lake: 0% Minnesota Department of Education, 2004-2005 School Year

  6. Problems with using LEP as a proxy for immigrant Just over half (53.9 percent) of ELL students are foreign-born. “Descriptive study of services to LEP students and LEP students with disabilities. Volume I: Research report,” Office of English Language Acquisition, 2003. Around 40% of foreign-born students are ELL. “Overlooked and Underserved: Immigrant Students in U.S. Secondary Schools,” Urban Institute, 2000.

  7. What we don’t know • How many immigrant students are there in Minnesota’s colleges and universities? • Where are Minnesota’s immigrant students from? • What immigration statuses do Minnesota’s immigrant students have? • How many of our immigrant students are LEP?

  8. How well are immigrant students performing in Minnesota schools?

  9. How well are English Language Learners doing in Minnesota schools?

  10. How well are English Language Learners doing in Minnesota schools?

  11. What we don’t know • How well are non-LEP immigrant students performing? • How well are immigrant students performing in subjects other than math and reading? • Are some immigrant communities performing better than others?

  12. What challenges do immigrant students face?

  13. The good news Overall, foreign-born students are as or more likely than their native-born peers to: • Report high personal aspirations • Take Advanced Placement classes • Take other advanced math and science classes • Graduate from high school • Graduate from college “Overlooked and Underserved: Immigrant Students in U.S. Secondary Schools,” Urban Institute, 2000.

  14. LEP immigrants have higher drop-out rates than non-LEP immigrants. “Overlooked and Underserved: Immigrant Students in U.S. Secondary Schools,” Urban Institute, 2000.

  15. Mexican and other Hispanic students have higher drop-out rates “Overlooked and Underserved: Immigrant Students in U.S. Secondary Schools,” Urban Institute, 2000.

  16. Immigrant students have higher rates of poverty than non-immigrants “Overlooked and Underserved: Immigrant Students in U.S. Secondary Schools,” Urban Institute, 2000.

  17. What we don’t know • In addition to language acquisition, do immigrant students face other challenges different from those faced by native-born students? • Do students from different immigrant communities face different challenges?

  18. Sources Capps, R., Fix, M., Murray, J., Ost, J., Passel, J. and Herwantoro, S. “The New Demography of America’s Schools: Immigration and the No Child Left Behind Act.” Urban Institute, 2005. Minnesota Department of Education Ruiz-de-Velasco, Jorge and Fix, Michael. “Overlooked and Underserved: Immigrant Students in U.S. Postsecondary Schools.” Urban Institute, 2000. Zehler, A.M., Fleischman, H.L. & Hopstock, P.J., Stephenson, T.G., Pendzick, M. & Sapru, S. Descriptive study of services to LEP students and LEP students with disabilities. Volume I: Research report. Rosslyn, VA: Development Associates. 2003.

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