1. During the 2003-’04 academic year, I worked as a consultant to Region I, one of the ten school districts that comprise the New York City public schools. I was asked to assist Walton High School, which was being broken down from one large, comprehensive high school into several smaller autonomous learning communities. I spent much of the year assisting administrators of the school as they carried out this task.
2. As a researcher and the Director of the Metro Center at NYU, I work with many schools throughout the United States. For a description of my research see City Schools and the American Dream (NY: Teachers College Press, 2003)
3. In much of the sociological literature on immigration it has been held that assimilation would lead to social mobility for immigrants. Second and third generation immigrants have generally fared better than new arrivals. For Latinos, available research suggests the opposite may be true. See Ethnicity and Assimilation by Robert Jibou.
4. For an analysis of these propositions and their impact on Latinos in California, see Covering Immigration by Leo Chavez.
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Published in In Motion Magazine April 3, 2005.
