Reviews

Made in America: Immigrant Students in Our Public Schools by Laurie Olsen, Herbert R. Kohl

sarahjsnider's review against another edition

4.0

Underneath the superficial celebrations of diversity at Madison High School, a system of stratification exists that particularly harms the ELL students. Nobody escapes the budget constraints and lack of teacher training, but it's especially discouraging to see how the problems affect those on the bottom. Of course, this was written before NCLB and ESSA, which mandated certain ELL standards that aren't present here. Maybe that's covered in the new foreword, but I skipped that for now to save time.