Abstract:This entry offers a brief historicized and contextualized overview of the unique instructional and non‐academic needs of refugee and asylum‐seeking students with interrupted formal education (SIFE) that are often underserved in US classrooms. SIFE are often identified as a result of several factors such as: not having prior school transcripts or by visible gaps in their education records, demonstrating low literacy levels in their home language(s), and difficulty understanding grade‐level content. SIFE are dis… Show more
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