) students in a particular elementary grade and language is twenty or higher. Using school panel data, we find a significant … significantly impact the standardized test scores of students with Spanish as their home language (comprised primarily of ever …-LEP students). However, there are significant positive spillover effects to their non-LEP peers. -- bilingual education …

. Rather, it is the limited English language skills of some of these students that leads to small, negative peer effects on …There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools … especially those with limited English language skills and recent data suggest that North Carolina has the 8th largest ELL student …

Hispanic students receive more favorable evaluations from Hispanic teachers who share the same native language than Hispanic … student outcomes like achievement and teachers' evaluations of their behavior for Black and White students, findings appear to … be noticeably mixed for Hispanic students. This paper shows that a potential reason for the mixed findings for Hispanic …

, demographically-similar teachers can increase students' achievement. These studies have tended to focus on the role of race and gender … similarities between student and teacher. This study is the first to examine the role of native language similarity. Using a …, this study exploits variation in contemporaneous test scores and whether the student shares the same native language as the …

We examine the relationship between socio-economic characteristics and voting patterns among Arabs in Israel. We … proportion of Israeli Arabs voting for Jewish-majority parties and a rise in their electoral support for Arab Parties. We also … find that the decrease in voter turnout among Arabs following the political effects of the Second Intifada may have been …

immigrants can displace a group at the bottom of the ladder. We use Israeli data to compare two ethnic groups: Israeli Arabs and … Ethiopian immigrants. Israeli Arabs were considered to be the least successful ethnic group in the Israeli labor market until …