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Workforce Management
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Professional Expectations, Families and Brexit Shape Future for UK International Researchers
Susan Guthrie, Catherine A. Lichten
May 5, 2017
Times Higher Education
Mobility has become an even higher priority for researchers since the results of the UK’s EU referendum, Brexit. To continue to attract and keep top talent, the UK needs to understand how and why researchers move between countries.
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Disadvantaged Students
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Why Being a Migrant Is Not the Biggest Barrier to Education in Europe
Barbara Janta, Emma Harte
Oct 31, 2016
New Europe
Migrant students tend to have lower performance and are more likely to leave school early. But factors other than migrant status, such as language barriers, can explain these differences.
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Immigration and Emigration
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Why Re-Establishing Border Controls in Europe Could Come at a High Cost
Marco Hafner @econ_hafner, Jirka Taylor
Oct 13, 2016
E!Sharp
Reversing the Schengen agreement would come at a high economic cost, while undoing many of the positive social and political developments of the past decade.
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STEM Education
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Integrating STEM Learning in Early Childhood Education
Rafiq Dossani
Jun 19, 2016
U.S. News & World Report
Young children can understand concepts in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and early development of STEM skills seems to support learning later in life. But an effective teaching system is needed before STEM learning can be fully integrated into early childhood education.
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Immigrants and Emigrants
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Should Undocumented Immigrant Youth Pay In-State Tuition to Attend College?
Robert Bozick
Jul 28, 2015
The RAND Blog
Undocumented children are entitled to free primary and secondary public education everywhere in the United States, regardless of their legal status. But when they finish high school, their options for college vary depending on the state in which they live.
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Immigrants and Emigrants
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Prior Removal and Recidivism
Laura J. Hickman, Jennifer S. Wong, Marika Booth, Laura Patton
Dec 11, 2014
The RAND Blog
President Obama's executive action on immigration includes a new program that targets immigration enforcement at those arrested for more serious offenses and those deemed to be risks to national security. Research shows that unauthorized immigrants who have been previously deported are more likely to be rearrested after jail release, so local public safety interests and federal immigration enforcement priorities may well align around immigrants with a record of prior removal.
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United States
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A Summer Reading List for Congress
Jul 31, 2014
No matter how policymakers spend their break—meeting with home-state constituents, traveling abroad with congressional delegations, or spending time with family—this summer reading list contains policy ideas that can help them hit the ground running when they return.
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Immigrants and Emigrants
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With Child Migrants Set to Become Students, Educators Must Prepare
Gabriella C. Gonzalez @GabCGonzalez, Robert Bozick
Jul 14, 2014
The RAND Blog
Between 70,000 and 90,000 unaccompanied children are expected to cross the U.S.-Mexico border by year's end. Lost in an intensifying debate over U.S. immigration policy is the possibility that this wave will spill from shelters to schools. To best respond to this reality, policymakers and educators should consider what research says about educating migrant children.
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Immigration Legislation
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Potential Path to Citizenship for Undocumented Immigrants Takes Shape
Jan 31, 2013
A group of U.S. Senators this week unveiled a proposal to reform the nation's immigration laws, outlining a path to citizenship for most of the nation's estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants and endorsing an increase of certain types of foreign-born workers.
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Immigrants and Emigrants

Professional Expectations, Families and Brexit Shape Future for UK International Researchers

Why Being a Migrant Is Not the Biggest Barrier to Education in Europe

Why Re-Establishing Border Controls in Europe Could Come at a High Cost

Integrating STEM Learning in Early Childhood Education

Should Undocumented Immigrant Youth Pay In-State Tuition to Attend College?

Prior Removal and Recidivism

A Summer Reading List for Congress

With Child Migrants Set to Become Students, Educators Must Prepare

Potential Path to Citizenship for Undocumented Immigrants Takes Shape

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