Every year 1.2 million students fail to graduate from high school - equivalent to a drop out rate of over 7 thousand students per school day. A more detailed investigation of that number reveals that Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) students are significantly overrepresented in that group. Yet, high school CLD students have received little attention from educational researchers over the past decades. This is even more alarming since all recent demographic studies point to an increase of the CLD population in the years to come. This book, therefore, starts to shed some light on this...