Resiliency and Success: Migrant Children in the U.S.

by Encarnación Garza, Enrique T. Trueba, Pedro Reyes

This book elucidates the amazing life journeys of academically successful migrant students. Offering vivid case studies of successful students, this book helps teachers, education students, and researchers understand the factors that lead to success by minority language children. The authors develop the lessons of student success stories into recommendations for schools and for educational policy. Readers gain from this book the stories of real students, the challenges they faced, and the means by which students and schools may overcome language and cultural barriers to educational success.

188 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2004

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book that provides a hopeful look at migrant children in the U.S. The book is a great resource for educators, youth practitioners, and researchers studying migrant children. I found it very useful for my Masters thesis.