School Success and Failure in the First and Second Generations of Immigrant Students

• Main Author: Rosa Mª Rodríguez Izquierdo
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de Navarra 2010-12-01
• Series: Estudios sobre Educación
• Subjects: escolares inmigrantes; éxito y fracaso escolar; desigualdades educativas; estado de la cuestión.
• Online Access: https://www.unav.edu/publicaciones/revistas/index.php/estudios-sobre-educacion/article/view/4582

In the last few years, the discussion on academic success of immigrants’ children from all over the world has become a key issue and one of the greatest challenges for all the countries (OECD, 2006; Nusche, 2009). This article offers an approach to a situation that has become more complex due to the increased number of immigrant children integrated into schools in the USA. This paper reviews various research studies carried out in USA, a country with a long tradition in integrating immigrant students. It analyzes the various theories which explain the success and failure of first and second generation immigrant children.