Word: orozco
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...course, once a collectivist not always a collectivist. Marcelo Surez-Orozco, a professor of globalization and education at New York University, has been following 400 families that immigrated to the U.S. from Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Many hailed from villages where the American culture of competition is alien, but once they got here, they changed fast...
...immigrant children in his study are outperforming their U.S.-born peers. What's more, the adults are dramatically outperforming the immigrant families that came before them. "One hundred years ago, it took people two to three generations to achieve a middle-class standard of living," says Surez-Orozco. "Today they're getting there within a generation...
...Vera Orozco, the nanny, arrives to begin her 10 1/2-hour shift at the Nevinses'. Cheryl, a labor lawyer for the Chicago board of education, hands over the baby and checks her e-mail from the kitchen table. "I almost feel apprehensive if I leave for work without logging on," she confesses. Between messages, she helps Ryan pull blue Play-Doh from a container, then briefs Orozco on the morning's events: "They woke up early. Ryan had his poop this morning, this guy has not." Throughout the day, Orozco...
Thomas Professor of Education Marcelo Suárez-Orozco says Lagemann’s global focus is crucial for affecting change in American public education...
...Suarez-Orozco cites an “intellectual abstraction and elegance” in Farmer, mentioning grand-scale discussions that Farmer has engaged in with University President Lawrence H. Summers...