School Characteristics and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children: Traditional and New Measures of School Characteristics.

This paper presents the preliminary analysis of the association of school quality with immigrant status using traditional and new measures, and the association of immigrant status and educational attainment by using standardized test scores. We used the National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS: 88). Our analysis shows significant associations between school quality and immigrant status and between educational attainment and immigrant status, which encourages further research on the relationships between educational outcomes and school quality for immigrant children. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]