One of a number of articles on education and immigration
"A Question of Assimilation"
U.S. New and World Report
Vol. 140, No. 9, 34,36
March 13, 2006
by Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco, Professor at New York University
" ...In the United States...[o]ur record in educating immigrant students is uneven, to be sure, but it is a lot more hopeful than the European record. Immigrant kids here win more than their share of the nation's most competitive and prestigious awards, like the Intel Science Awards and National Spelling Bee championships. New data show that immigrant students in the United States have more positive attitudes toward schools and teachers than their nonimmigrant counterparts. A study of 400 immigrant families and their children revealed that fully 40 percent of the immigrant students from Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America who enrolled in American schools received, on average, grades of A or B over a five-year period. The fact that immigrant girls in the United States are outperforming immigrant boys augurs for an even brighter future, for there is no better return on investment in education than the success of girls. Immigrants and the children of immigrants--from Ghana, Jamaica, Colombia, Korea--are overrepresented on every one of the campuses where I have taught over the years, including Berkeley, Harvard, Stanford, and New York University. The same, sadly, cannot be said of the leading universities in Europe..."
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