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How refugee children make American education stronger

  • Written by Shawna Shapiro, Associate Professor of Writing and Linguistics; Director of Writing & Rhetoric Program, Middlebury College
Schools are seeing declines in refugee children under the Trump administration.Jan Andersen/www.shutterstock.com

In recent years, there has been a great deal of public angst about refugee resettlement in the U.S. and Europe. Americans are deeply divided on the issue. For instance, a Pew Research Center study published in May of this year found that...

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