Crisis in education of Hispanic children in USA, high dropout rates among learners of English as a Second Language

How to educate immigrants?

What is the impact of learning in a second language?

How to integrate children from different cultures into the mainstream and orient them towards success?

The problem of Hispanic children in the USA resembles that of North African and African immigrants in France.

Interesting reading from Time Magazine's  ANDREW J. ROTHERHAM.

The Education Crisis No One Is Talking About

extract:   Only 17% of Hispanic fourth-graders score proficient or better on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (a test given to samples of students each year) while 42% of non-Hispanic white students do. Nationally, the high school graduation rate for Hispanics is just 64%, and only 7% of incoming college students are Hispanic, according to the Alliance for Excellent Education

There are 4 million Hispanics in public schools whose primary language is not English (and 75% of them were born in the U.S.) Thankfully, dead-end bilingual programs that trap students while teaching them little are increasingly a thing of the past. However, there is still too little training, curriculum and support for teachers of English-language learners. A 2002 analysis by the Department of Education found that 1 in 3 teachers working with these students lacked academic training or proper certification.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2070930,00.html#ixzz1MOrhfmYx