RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Introduction: Immigration and Education JF Harvard Educational Review JO herp FD Harvard Educational Press SP v OP xi DO 10.17763/haer.71.3.3n673j1t42741t61 VO 71 IS 3 A1 Baolian, Desiree A1 Qin-Hilliard A1 Feinauer, Erika A1 Quiroz, Blanca YR 2001 UL http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/71/3/v.abstract AB At the beginning of the last century, the United States experienced a wave of large-scale immigration that brought unprecedented numbers of hopeful people to this country to start a new and better life. Coming from countries around the world, but mostly from Eastern and Southern Europe, these immigrants settled throughout the United States, in time shaping the culture and psyche of their new home to make the nation it is today.