Sentences with phrase «english at»

«Richmond is at risk of creating a two - tiered education system, with only some students receiving crucial financial help for college, while others with the same needs are ignored,» says Brian Buttacolvi, who teaches 10th grade English at Making Waves Academy, a charter school.

For example, although older English language learners may be able to read words in English at a 1st grade level, they may not be able to comprehend these words as well as a 1st grade native English speaker does.

Nearly 12 million children in the U.S. speak a language other than English at home.

MCD opens in Jamaica Plain with 100 elementary students, 85 % of whom speak a language other than English at home.

Lauren studied Elementary Education and English at Bridgewater State University and obtained her BS in Education in 2011.

Alex Quigley is a Subject Leader of English at Huntington Secondary School in York.

Elizabeth received her Bachelor of Science in Education in Secondary Education English from Bloomsburg University, her Master of Arts in English at Seton Hall University, and her Master of Education in Education Policy and Management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Students work on research papers in ninth grade English at Cathedral High School in Indianapolis.

More than 11 million school - age children speak a language other than English at home, and Texas enrolls the second largest population of K - 12 English language learners.

Mr Gove, who studied English at Oxford University, has in the past highlighted his concern that pupils were reading Of Mice and Men in particular.

Kathy Keyes teaches sophomore English at Cathedral, mostly AP Literature and Composition.

«Previously, I had been told our principal would make the determination,» said Tim McNamara, who teaches English at Middle College High School at Durham Tech.

And Bethan Marshall, chair of the National Association for the Teaching of English and a senior lecturer in English at King's College London, said: «Many teenagers will think that being made to read Dickens aged 16 is just tedious.

[From findings on the Transfer of Skills from Spanish to English: A Study of Young Learners, Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, D.C.] The results indicated that Spanish phonemic awareness, Spanish letter identification, and Spanish word reading were reliable predictors of performance on parallel tasks in English at the end of third and fourth grades.

In 2010, Wessling took a short break from her post teaching English at Johnston High School in Johnston, Iowa, to come to the White House to be named National Teacher of the Year.

Of the state's one million preschool - aged children, 493,877 live in or near poverty.Public Policy Institute of California, «Child Poverty in California,» 2014; The Annie E. Casey Foundation, «Children Who Speak a Language Other Than English at Home,» KIDS COUNT Data Center, 2015.

She previously taught English at the middle and high school level in independent, traditional public, and charter school settings.

12.5 % more students met or exceeded standards in English at highly collaborative schools compared to the least collaborative schools.

Furthermore, schools continue to see an increase in the number of children who speak a language other than English at home.

He served for three years in Phoenix, AZ as a Teach For America Corps Member, taught abroad in Italy for one year, and taught freshman English at HOPE Christian High School.

Since September 2014, Ben Bransfield, who teaches English at King's College School, has run a cross-sector creative writing project for secondary pupils in the atmospheric setting of Southside H...

Disproportionately poor, and sometimes not speaking English at home, Hispanics tend to score considerably lower than white students.

A professor of English at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Ms. Yancey, 55, will follow her term as vice president by serving one - year terms as the group's president - elect, president, and past - president.

It would also give those interested in studying English at university, a greater sense of why it is a meaningful subject to pursue.

In chapter after chapter, the author, a professor of English at Emory University, rails at how little they know, how little they read, and how their fascination with screens (television and computer) fails to produce learning.

A story may feature a Latino mother who had to learn English at night with support from a dictionary to help her daughter do homework; an East African family who chose one school because it offered multiple languages; or a Christian man who wanted religion to be part of his child's learning experience.

I heard the same thing from Alonte Johnson, a Morehouse College English major who is teaching middle - school English at Kings Collegiate Charter School in Brooklyn.

If the United States is going to take advantage of the linguistic skills of millions of children in this country who speak languages other than English at home, policy has to change at the district, state, and national levels, experts in the field say.

- Carol Jago teaches English at Santa Monica High and directs the California Reading and Literature Project at UCLA.

They didn't speak English at home.

He taught English at Ridgefield Academy before becoming the assistive technology coordinator at the Kildonan School and launching his successful consulting business.

More than half of those in each state who reported that they spoke a language other than English at home also said they spoke English «very well.»

A growing percentage of U.S. residents speak a language other than English at home, according to data from the 1990 U.S. Census.

Patrick Welsh retired in June after 43 years teaching English at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria.

Gary Pollard, Head of English at AQA, adds, «We want teachers to have the time and energy to deliver quality learning in every lesson, every day — to be the inspiring teacher they've always wanted to be.

Amid reports that overweight pupils underperform academically — data obtained from at least six studies by Scottish PHD student Anne Martin show that children who are obese at 11 achieve lower than average marks in maths, science and English at 16 — and findings that there is a higher incidence of serious childhood obesity in London than New York, figures like the London Health Commission's Lord Darzi are claiming that the issue is «at breaking point.»

Kathryn Parker has recently begun her PhD in Shakespeare studies in the Department of English at The University of Sydney.

Due to a large influx of new immigrants and refugees to the area from Central America, Africa, and the Middle East — most notably Kurdistan and Syria, earning one neighborhood the nickname Little Kurdistan — at least 18 percent of MNPS students are now English - language learners, and a full third of students do not speak English at home.

I studied Classics and English at Exeter University from 2004 - 7, and am consequently a proud member of the 2.1 club.

In Rebecca Mohler's fourth - grade class, for example, at least half the students speak a language other than English at home.

Eventually, Dick taught English at Mt. Greylock High School in Williamstown, Mass., for 36 years, where he also directed and acted in school plays, and advised the literary and graphic arts magazine.

As he speculates in «Injecting Charter School Best Practices Into Traditional Public Schools: Evidence from Field Experiments,»» [A] leading theory posits that reading scores are influenced by the language spoken when students are outside of the classroom... [The researchers] argue that if students speak non-standard English at home and in their communities, increasing reading scores might be especially difficult.

Rashmi Kathuria (@rashkath) from India recommends a method used by Anita Chadha, a teacher of English at Kulachi Hansraj Model School.

Further, the student body includes 53 percent ESL students, with 21 percent of students speaking no English at all.

«They know what to do,» says Brandy Holton, who teaches 7th - grade science, social studies, and English at the Chicago International Charter School (CICS) Irving Park, which serves grades K — 8.

We may debate that one for long time, as Bill Clinton parsed «is,» but as a history major who has watched in horror the degradation of the arts and humanities in our reform revolution («what gets tested is what gets taught»), I can only applaud Bauerlein, a professor of English at Emory University, for taking the fight directly to the STEM fraternity.

Hedley Willsea is Head of English at the Anglo - American School of Moscow.

These students scored 15 points lower on average than students who did speak English at home.

Andy Ratcliffe, chief executive of Impetus - PEF, said: «Every young person should be supported to get good GCSEs in maths and English at school.

The study, which comprises responses from individuals studying at Undergraduate, Masters and PHD level, also found that 42 % of students do not speak English as their first language, and 1 in 10 do not speak English at all.