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The Immigrant Paradox - Immigrant Education
The Immigrant Paradox allows the inequality of education among immigrants to turn a negative into a positive. A study from New York showed that children of immigrant descent outperformed their native student counterparts. It all has to do with the attitude of the student. The paradox explains that the gratefulness of immigrant children allows them to actually enjoy academic advantages that may not have been accessible at one time. This in turn allows for more effort and better outcomes from these students. This was also evident in the National Education Longitudinal Study which showed that immigrant children many times outperformed on math and science tests. Grace Keo reported that “evidence of the immigrant advantage was stronger from Asian immigrant families than for youth from Latin American”, which may cause some inequality in itself. This may vary depending on differences between pre and post migration conditions.

In 2010, some researchers from Brown University had done some research on immigrants that could lead to findings on performance in things such as school or work. Their research concluded facts that could explain why immigrants sometimes perform the way that they do. Some of these facts include; first-generation immigrant children show lower levels of delinquency and bad behaviors than second or third generation children or "first-generation immigrant children often start behind American-born children in school, but they catch up quickly and have high rates of learning growth." This type of information allows us to see why immigrants can outperform American children in school even when the odds may be stacked against them.