Unaccompanied Children: News & Updates
These news outlets are providing ongoing coverage about the situation along the border as well as responses from communities and schools around the country. A number of reports written for The New York Times are by author and journalist Sonia Nazario, featured in our Meet the Authors section.
PBS NewsHour Video: Wave of child migrants pose challenges for Florida schools
News Coverage
Education Week
Education Week has featured in-depth coverage of the arrival of unaccompanied children in public schools, including the following stories from the Learning the Language blog:
- Will Schools Be Prepared for Latest Surge of Unaccompanied Minors?, Education Week, January 8 2016
- Unaccompanied Minors Face Uneven Experiences in U.S. Schools, Education Week, October 16, 2015
- Schools Could Face Another Influx of Unaccompanied Minors, Analysis Shows, Education Week, April 9, 2015
- After Journey From Honduras, Boy Starts School in U.S., Education Week, August 25, 2014
- U.S. Schools Gear Up for Surge of Young Immigrants, Education Week, June 27, 2014
- Surge of Unaccompanied Minors Crossing Border Presents Education Challenges, Education Week, June 9, 2014
For more from Education Week, see the Learning the Language blog.
The New York Times
- The Refugees at Our Door
- The Children of the Drug Wars
- Immigrants' School Cases Spur Enrollment Review in New York
- Requirements Keep Young Immigrants Out of Long Island Classrooms
- School District on Long Island Is Told It Must Teach Immigrants
- The Heartache of an Immigrant Family
Public media
- A Year Later: The School System That Welcomed Unaccompanied Minors (NPR)
- The Surreal Reasons Girls Are Disappearing In El Salvador (NPR)
- Unaccompanied Child Migrants From Central America: Where Are They Now? (The Diane Rehm Show)
- KERA: She Escaped Violence for a Fresh Start in Texas (Generation One series)
- The Journey to Texas: Why Central American Kids Are Coming Here
- NPR: Stories About Unaccompanied Minors
- PBS NewsHour: Immigration Reports & Videos
- Fronteras Desk: Immigration News
Other news outlets
- Siblings Risk Separation in Immigration System, Yahoo Politics
- What Undocumented Students Bring to the Classroom, The Atlantic
- U.S. Committee for Refugtees and Immigrants: Updated News Stories
- Ministering to Unaccompanied Immigrant Children, Global Sisters Project
- How to Treat Unaccompanied Immigrant Children At Center of Policy Debate, National Catholic Reporter
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