education and language. When the EU made the borderlines between European countries less visible, the language boundary remained … competent in one common European language (English is the likely candidate), next to one's own language. Competency is essential … exchange of students in full or part time studies in the EU. This brought about far more than the understanding of subjects and …

) 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 …

students with high German language skills is not affected, students with medium German language skills are positively affected …Immigrants who have a better command of the host country's language are more likely to be employed and earn higher … wages. Using a survey experiment among international students in Germany, I investigate whether information on the monetary …

, 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 …