Immigrant children -- both those born abroad and those born in the U.S. with a foreign-born parent -- now constitute 27 percent of all children under the age of 18 in the United States. Many do not speak English well, have parents with limited education, live in poverty, and have experienced trauma in their lives. This collection of some 100 studies explores various aspects of the educational challenges facing these students. Among topics covered are: models for providing early childhood education, strategies for dealing with childhood trauma, the advantages of an asset-based educational paradigm, dual language learning programs, ELL instructional models, dealing with "super-diverse" classrooms, the impact of discrimination on educational progress, programs to support high school completion, and appropriate metrics for measuring student academic performance.

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