Outline Helen Planty English 1302.02 October 25, 2105 Argument with a classic structure - each letter corresponds to one sentence in your essay. Only fill out the letters - not the roman numerals. I. II. Intro (5 sentences only) A. “A 1994 study showed that 60% of migrant students in the United States drop out of school.” “The average migrant child may attend as many as three different schools in one year. For many children it takes roughly three years to advance one grade level.” B. Migrant children miss school when their families move from one work site to another. C. Migrant teenagers are made to work in the fields or tend for younger siblings. D. Lack of parental support E. There are better ways to educate migrant …show more content…
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/02/cost-educating-new-class-illegal-immigrant-minors-estimated-at-over-760m/ IV. Response to opposing position (5 sentences only) A. In general, quality education of migrant is important to us as a nation. B. Immigration can negatively affect natives, but barely. III. C. I found the net effect of immigration on natives to be small but positive. The increase in immigration in the 1990s caused the 2010 native high school completion rate, which stood at 87.8%, to be 1.3 percentage points higher than it would otherwise have been. I find native-born black people to be more responsive to immigration than natives as a whole. However, as the rate of immigration slowed in regions with more black people, the overall effect is very similar (1.4 percentage points). This is comparable with the completion gap between black people and white people, which was 7.3 percentage points in 2010. I also estimate a small negative net effect for native-born Hispanic people (-1.2 percentage points), but this is not statistically significantly different from zero. Source: …show more content…
This is occurring in a school district that is located on the “wrong” (east) side of El Paso and serves a student population that is 88.1 percent Hispanic and 73.4 percent economically disadvantaged. Dual language has helped liberate its students from the grim statistical reality that half of the Hispanic students in Texas will become dropouts: Ysleta boasts a graduation rate of 84 percent, well above both the Dallas and Houston school districts. A pioneer in dual language, Del Valle in 2005 graduated the first class to begin the program in elementary school. Instead of leaving Spanish behind for all-English classes, students were taught core subjects like algebra and world history in both Spanish and English. - See more at: