Combining conceptual models from immigration and educational research, this study
investigated whether a normative antecedent to the transition to formal schooling in the …

Using data from the New Immigrant Survey, a study based on a nationally representative
sample of legal immigrants, the present study extends prior research on the academic …

A preponderance of evidence points to an immigrant paradox in education: the children of
immigrants perform better than expected and often even outperform their peers with US-born …

The school transition model suggests that children's transitions into formal schooling can
have lasting and profound implications for their educational careers, though this model is …

Utilizing data on approximately 16,000 children from the Early Childhood Longitudinal
Survey-Kindergarten Cohort and a rich set of mediating factors on 16 immigrant groups, this …

Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (n≈ 6800), we examined the
factors explaining variation in school readiness in a large and nationally representative …

Children from immigrant families make up a growing proportion of young children in the
United States. This study highlights the heterogeneity in early academic skills related to …

Intergenerational relations in immigrant families are managed and shaped within divergent
contexts of reception and incorporation, and with divergent sets of resources and …

Recent immigration to the United States has spawned a rapidly growing second generation,
most of whom are of school age. This article reports the findings of a study of 5,266 second …

Abstract Effects of immigration on Mexican-American immigrant children and families can be
lifelong. This article describes conditions contributing to immigration and its effects on poor …