Sentences with phrase «do minority language»

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The new order does away with explicit language about prioritizing religious minorities, as well as loosens Trump's initial limits on who's allowed to enter the United States.

-LSB-...] you're not sure how to find great books in the minority language, ask Leanna of All Done Monkey!

And that doesn't even begin to capture the huge amounts of dialects (and local languages when there were ethnic minorities) that were spoken (or still are) before countries heavily promoted their official languages.

Beyond those concerns, we would do well to ensure that students are prepared to understand our neighbors, friends, allies, foes, and those within our own borders who are members of language minority communities.

Among minorities who do not speak Thai as their first language, the motivation to learn among this group is now very high but our challenge is to find effective ways to reach and teach them.

Does the school communicate with language minority students and their families to ensure that student needs beyond language are met?

Although the average gains of Teach to One students in most demographic sub-groups outperformed national norms — including for language minority, special education, and low - income students — that did not hold true for black students.

What do you see as the ideal role of a native or «heritage» language in instruction for language minority students?

The state doesn't have enough minority teachers, or enough special education and English language learner educators.

Read the research brief on Teaching Secondary Language Minority Students (www.crede.ucsc.edu/research/llaa/rb4.shtml) to learn four things teachers should do to support language development in secondary school learners; for example, how to help Tommy, a 7th grader who has not been in school since he completed 5th grade in his native country.

While it is admirable for school districts to promote bilingualism, it is truly a second - tier purpose that mainly does a disservice to the majority minority group in San Jose — the Hispanics at the expense of quality language instruction for numerous other second language groups.

Does the school support language minority students» academic learning in all subject areas as they move toward fluency?

Rural, suburban, urban, gifted, special education, English language learner, poor, minority — it simply doesn't matter... When we as adults do our job and give them opportunities to succeed, all of our children can be extraordinarily successful.

Schools that fail to do so will continue to blame students for failing, which will perpetuate the over-identification of minority, English language learning, and economically disadvantaged students into special education.

Educators who work closely with minority language students argue that using standardized IQ tests as a primary measure of giftedness does not fairly accommodate the linguistic and cultural differences of these students.

On the other hand, this program may be particularly appreciated by gifted and talented minority language students, since they often do not receive this sort of exposure to the arts in a standard instructional program.

It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.

Minority groups who speak their languages and practice their culture, enjoy better social, emotional and health outcomes than groups who do not

This strongly suggests that more needs to be done to find suitable adopters to care for those children whose needs are well known and all too familiar — children with complex health needs or disabilities, children from minority ethnic, cultural, religious and language backgrounds, older children and sibling groups.

The rights which persons belonging to minorities enjoy under Article 27 of the Covenant in respect of their language, culture and religion do not authorise any State, group or person to violate the right to the equal enjoyment by women of any Covenant rights, including the right to equal protection of the law.