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DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 23, 1994                   TAG: 9402230188
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: SAN FRANCISCO                                LENGTH: Short

IMMIGRANT PUPILS LOSE EXCELLENCE OVER TIME

Immigrant children do better in school than their American classmates but their performance declines as they become more Americanized, a new study says.

The study, the largest of its kind, is key to helping immigrant children advance as the nation loses the manufacturing jobs where their parents have traditionally found work, Ruben G. Rumbaut, a sociology professor at Michigan State University, said Tuesday.

Many studies have shown that the children of immigrants do better in school than American-born children. This study shows that as immigrant children become Americanized they move in the direction of their American counterparts. - Associated Press 


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