Additive schooling in subtractive times: bilingual education and Dominican immigrant youth in the Heights

Documents the unusually successful efforts of one New York City high school to educate Dominican immigrant youth.

Based on four and a half years of qualitative research, the book examines the schooling of teens in the Dominican Republic, the social and linguistic challenges the immigrant teens face in Washington Heights, and how Gregorio Luperon High School works with the community to respond to those challenges.