ABSTRACT
The increased mobility of families around the world influences schools and challenges educators. Children in immigrant families are the fastest growing segment of the child population in the United States, with one of every five children in the United States living in a household where one or both parents are foreign born. (Hernandez, 2004). During the 1990s, more than 14 million immigrants entered the United States, exceeding the flow in any decade in the nation's history. Entry of another 14 million immigrants is expected between 2000 and 2010 (Fix & Passel, 2003). Friedlander (1991) wrote that the wave of immigration in the latter decades of the 20th century had such a profound effect on the society that it could almost be regarded as the equivalent of a demographic revolution. This impact is perhaps most obvious in the schools.
