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The Contribution of Foreign Schools to Educational Attainment in the United States
The Contribution of Foreign Schools to Educational Attainment in the United States
Immigration is an important factor shaping the education distribution of the United States. Several writers have noted t hat immigration has led to a “barbell” shaped educational distribution in some places, with low - skilled immigrants flowing into the United States along with others possessing advanced degrees (Martin 1995, Frey 2004). Places with concentrations of high sc hool dropouts, for example, tend also to have high immigrant populations (Bauman and Graf 2003). An unexamined assumption is that the characteristics of the immigrants themselves have created these conditions. The contribution of local schools, colleges and universities to the shape of the immigrant educational distribution has been largely ignored.
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