Three new reports available on immigrant students in New York City schools

• "Racial Segregation in Multiethnic Schools: Adding Immigrants to the Analysis" Taub Working Paper, April 2003. Ingrid Gould Ellen and Katherine O’Regan with Amy Ellen Schwartz and Leanna Stiefel.

• "Who are Our Students? A Statistical Portrait of Immigrant Students in New York City Elementary and Middle Schools" Taub Working Paper, January 2003 Dylan Conger, Amy Ellen Schwartz, Leanna Stiefel.

• Language Proficiency and Home Languages of Students in New York City Elementary and Middle Schools,Taub Working Paper, February 2003, Leanna Stiefel, Amy Ellen Schwartz, Dylan Conger.

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Introduction

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Immigrant Children and New York City Public Schools
Amy Ellen Schwartz, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Katherine O'Regan, Leanna Stiefel, Co-Principal Investigators

In many urban areas in the United States, immigrant children and the children of immigrants are transforming local schools. Immigrant children face - and pose - significant challenges to these schools, challenges that are in many ways greater than those of earlier waves of immigrants.

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Good Schools, Good Students? Measuring School Performance with Diverse Students
Leanna Stiefel, Amy Ellen Schwartz, Co-Principal Investigators

The substantial and growing diversity in public school students across the US generally, and in troubled urban schools specifically, makes it particularly important to identify appropriate and useful methods for measuring school performance, even when students vary considerably in their language skills, prior academic experience, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Our research uses data on public schools in New York City and Ohio in order to identify such methods, and will highlight the advantages and disadvantages of these alternative methods.

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Biographies

Leanna Stiefel

Amy Ellen Schwartz

Bio Curriculum Vitae

Bio Curriculum Vitae

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