Sentences with phrase «educating immigrant children»

The current challenges of educating immigrant children are not so different from those the United States encountered a century ago.

«This program will focus on the unique aspects of educating immigrant children by examining current research on language education, socio - emotional well - being of immigrant youth, and family engagement that truly supports learning.»

Harvard Educational Review presents new research findings on the current issues in educating immigrant children.

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Among children born in Los Angeles to poorly - educated Chinese immigrants, for example, an astonishing 70 % complete a four - year - college degree.

Senators and witnesses both invoked Google, Yahoo, and eBay as examples of immigrants» reputedly special propensity to found great corporations; as often happens, the discussion failed to note that these companies» foreign - born founders and co-founders arrived in this country as small children and were educated in American schools.

Some will argue for a highly specialized program, curriculum, and staffing to educate Hispanic immigrant children.

Finally, 76 % of the less - educated want children of immigrants taught in English - speaking classrooms, as compared to 63 % of the college - educated.

States with large numbers of immigrants have repeatedly petitioned the federal government for help with the cost of educating their children.

This special report examines challenges and strategies for educating some of the most vulnerable students in the nation's schools, including youths in juvenile detention facilities, immigrant students fearing deportation, homeless students with disabilities, and foster children.

Though some will disagree about whether immigrants made the American Catholic Church or the American Catholic Church made the immigrants, the 1884 decisions by the Bishops stand as the foundational documents of a school system that so prospered that, by 1965, it was educating one of every eight children in the United States.

The foreign - language press supported America's role in World War II, even if the countries we fought against were the homelands of many immigrants; it steadily educated immigrant readers in American history, and through the parents also tried to educate the children.

I'm thinking of the many dozens of Latino immigrant parents we worked with in the Murphy School District in Phoenix who were dismayed to learn their district was chronically failing to educate their children.

«charter schools — public schools — are clearly laying out obstacles bigger than those in the applications of private universities, with requirements that put low - income students, foster children and those from poorly educated or immigrant families at a disadvantage.

A recent report from the Migration Policy Institute finds that California educates more than one - third of all US students designated as English Language Learners (ELLs) and focuses on the unique educational needs of students who are immigrants or the children of immigrants.

Most urban Catholic schools were originally built to educate the children of European immigrants; today, they mostly serve poor African American and Latino students.

Educator Joe Nathan, for example, supports a pair of charter schools in the Twin Cities that educate mostly Somali and Oromo students, because the schools provide a space where children can retain their home language and knowledge of their home culture.59 Likewise, Letitia Basford's qualitative study of Somali youth concluded that «attending a culturally specific charter school promotes positive intercultural competence in which students are able to build a good self - concept and find comfort in who they are as East African immigrants, as Muslims, and as American citizens.»

Their qualitative study of refugee parents in two schools in a declining northeastern city reveals that even in situations of material deprivation, public schools in the global North are more than capable of educating all of their students if they are able to accommodate new cultures of «space - making» and «identity - staking» for immigrant parents in their children's schools.

He says not only does more money need to be invested into children, but the state has to realize that it takes more money to educate certain groups, the poor and homeless, refugee and immigrant children and special education kids.

Theirs is the classic «educated brown immigrant» background: children of professor fathers who, seeking tenure - track positions, move their families to unlikely cities.

Partnering With Latino and Immigrant Families: Resources and Suggestions for Child Welfare Professionals (PDF - 1,465 KB) North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (2015) Discusses working with Latino and / or immigrant families for child welfare professionals in North Carolina and includes information on topics such as educating and recruiting foster families, using culturally sensitive recruitment, working with Hispanic foster families, using translators, Immigrant Families: Resources and Suggestions for Child Welfare Professionals (PDF - 1,465 KB) North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (2015) Discusses working with Latino and / or immigrant families for child welfare professionals in North Carolina and includes information on topics such as educating and recruiting foster families, using culturally sensitive recruitment, working with Hispanic foster families, using translators, and Child Welfare Professionals (PDF - 1,465 KB) North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (2015) Discusses working with Latino and / or immigrant families for child welfare professionals in North Carolina and includes information on topics such as educating and recruiting foster families, using culturally sensitive recruitment, working with Hispanic foster families, using translators, immigrant families for child welfare professionals in North Carolina and includes information on topics such as educating and recruiting foster families, using culturally sensitive recruitment, working with Hispanic foster families, using translators, and child welfare professionals in North Carolina and includes information on topics such as educating and recruiting foster families, using culturally sensitive recruitment, working with Hispanic foster families, using translators, and more.

Chinese immigrants love the opportunity to own a beautiful home here and have their children educated at what are increasingly excellent schools.