Every day people come into the U.S. as refugees, leaving all they know in their home country to escape violence, persecution, and death. Many end up in West Michigan, making communities more colorful, ...

Helping kids keep up with schoolwork can be a stressful experience for any parent. For new refugee parents, many of whom don't speak English themselves, the task is next to impossible. The problem isn ...

Local NGOs call the issue “niche”. Only 735 out of roughly 3,000 school-aged refugee children are enrolled in accredited ...

STUDIES SHOW THAT CHILDREN WHO ATTEND PRESCHOOL OR EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS PERFORM BETTER IN SCHOOL DURING THEIR LATER YEARS, AND THAT’S WHY A GROUP OF VOLUNTEERS IS GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND TO MAKE ...

Families in the Miami Valley with a refugee status can send their kids to a preschool specifically geared toward them in the Newcomer classroom at the Montgomery County Educational Services Center.

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - Kids from around the world are finding refuge in Mr. Chi’s class inside Wausau’s Horace Mann Middle School. The students’ first period begins with advisory where Chi goes over ...

The camp's Makani centers provide psychosocial support to refugee children. — -- Drawings of families holding hands under lopsided suns adorn the walls of an informal learning center in Jordan’s ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with reporter Anya Kamenetz about an Arabic-language remote learning program called "Ahlan Simsim." It's a show by the Sesame Workshop, created for Syrian refugees. Over ...

Most of the Rohingya children inside the world’s largest refugee camp here have never watched television. Now, with the help of a battery-powered projector, they’re laughing along with Elmo, the ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As a university graduate, Korvi Rakshand wanted nothing more than to help break the cycle of poverty in his native Bangladesh by teaching children on the margins ...

At age 15, Ishak bears the weight of his family’s expectations. He’s overcome racial discrimination and the additional challenges of his refugee status to become a school football star, a straight-A ...