There is a perception among native born parents in the USA that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools … peer effects on native students’ achievement. Rather, it is the limited English language skills of some of these students …, especially those with limited English language skills. Recent data suggests that North Carolina has the eighth largest English-language …

detailed information on students' language and math scores, their social integration, as well as on sociodemographic and school … linguistic diversity has no adverse effect on students’ language and math skills, but worsens the social integration of immigrant … integration of migrant and native students. In contrast to previous studies, which mainly examine the effect of the share of …

) 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 …

in English Language Arts (ELA) by exploring the relationships among: student, household, school, and teacher factors … predicted the percentage of economically disadvantaged (ED) students in a grade with 73 percent of effect size based on the … school district household attributes. Single family household was a major predictor for ED students …

Understanding learners’ epistemological beliefs as one of the core segments affecting students’ learning experiences is … of cardinal importance both from the point of conveying new knowledge and acquiring it. In English language teaching …, studying language learning beliefs has become a popular research area, with its genesis found in the seminal paper by Horwitz …