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Setting out from her classroom, Jessica Lander takes listeners on a powerful and urgent journey to understand what it takes for immigrant students to become Americans. A compelling listen for everyone who cares about America's future, Making Americans brims with innovative ideas for educators and policy makers across the country. Lander brings to life the history of America's efforts to educate immigrants through rich stories, like how California families overturned school segregation for Mexican American children. She visits innovative classrooms across the country that work with immigrant-origin students, including a school in Georgia for refugee girls who have been kept from school by violence, poverty, and natural disaster. She also includes inspiring stories of how seven of her own immigrant students created new homes in America, such as the daughter of Cambodian genocide survivors who dreamed of becoming a computer scientist. Making Americans is an exploration of immigrant education across the country told through key historical moments, current experiments to improve immigrant education, and profiles of immigrant students. It is a remarkable book that will reshape how we all think about nurturing one of America's greatest assets: the newcomers who enrich this country with their energy, talents, and drive.

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Jessica Lander is an award-winning teacher and writer. Author of Driving Backwards and coauthor of Powerful Partnerships: A Teacher's Guide to Engaging Families for Student Success, she teaches history and civics to recent immigrant students in a Massachusetts public high school and has won numerous awards for her teaching, including being named a Top 50 Finalist for the Global Teacher Prize, presented by the Varkey Foundation. Samara Naeymi is a voiceover artist who has lent her talents to commercial radio, cartoons, video games, and audiobooks. Her voice can be heard in television shows such as Pokemon and World of Winx and video games such as Modern Combat Versus. She is currently based in Brooklyn, New York.

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