Additive Schooling in Subtractive Times: Bilingual Education and Dominican Immigrant Youth in the Heights

by Lesley Bartlett and Ofelia García

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Additive Schooling in Subtractive Times documents the unusually successful efforts of one New York City high school to educate Dominican immigrant youth, at a time when Latino immigrants constitute a growing and vulnerable population in the nation's secondary schools. Based on four and a half years of qualitative research, the book examines the schooling of teens in the Dominican Republic, the social and linguistic challenges the immigrant teens face...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0826517633

ISBN13:9780826517630

Release Date:August 2011

Publisher:Vanderbilt University Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:2.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Related Subjects

Education Education & Reference Education Theory Hispanic American Studies Philosophy & Social Aspects Politics & Social Sciences Reform & Policy Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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