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- Title: Interagency Collaboration for Culturally Diverse Immigrant Children and Families: A Case Study with Historical and Contemporaneous Perspectives (International Institute of Metropolitan Detroit ) (Case Study)
- Author : Childhood Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2006
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 360 KB
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Interagency collaboration is critically needed to address an exponentially increasing immigrant population in the United States. The foreign-born population has more than doubled since 1970, when it had reached a low of 5 percent. During the 1990s, more than 13 million people moved to the United States, averaging well over a million immigrants per year. The 2000 census reported that the foreign-born population in the United States exceeded 31 million; by March 2002, this population had risen to 32.5 million, according to the U.S. Current Population Survey. Forty-seven million U.S. residents (nearly one in five) speak a language other than English at home, according to the 2000 census (Capps, Passel, Perez-Lopez, & Fix, 2003). Public schools saw a 40.7 percent increase enrollment of English language learners (ELLs) in 2003-04, compared to the enrollment of ELL learners in 1993-94. This group has more than doubled in size over the past 15 years, while the population that speaks only English expanded by just a fraction. ELL enrollment has increased at nearly seven times the rate of total student enrollment (Padolsky, 2005). Given these demographics, it is paramount to support school personnel through interagency collaboration for the following reasons.