Sentences with phrase «first language schools»

At around the same time, another group of affected parents sued the Province, claiming the funding arrangements violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms; as a result, the Province amended its municipalities legislation to provide funding for French - first language schools and the parties involved signed a consent order dismissing the Charter action.

He filed complaints with the N.S. Human Rights Commission, saying the funding arrangements for the French - first language schools discriminated against him and his family based on ethnic origin (Acadian).

Not exact matches

Where the philosopher guesses and argues, the mystic lives and looks; and speaks, consequently, the disconcerting language of first - hand experience, not the neat dialectic of the schools.

It was given to him by a teacher on his first day of school, because his given name in the Xhosa language, Rolihlahla, was deemed inadequate or inappropriate.

King James wrote his version of the Bible from Martin Luther's re-translation of the Catholic bible, a book which happened to be the first ever written in the German language, he also started antisemitism when he wrote that all Jews should be killed, all there belongings confiscated, and all their churches and schools should be burned (and you thought Hitler said that first right?).

Fakahany's first choice of college was the Lausanne Hospitality Management School in Switzerland; however, the prestigious school's admission requirement of fluency in four languages made it inaccessible to him at theSchool in Switzerland; however, the prestigious school's admission requirement of fluency in four languages made it inaccessible to him at theschool's admission requirement of fluency in four languages made it inaccessible to him at the time.

This year has been a year of great independence — Tyler began first grade, joined the French Immersion Program that requires him to complete his homework independently, speaks a language that neither of his parents understand, runs around the neighborhood alone calling for friends, plays independently at home with his sibling and peers, and generally has a whole life at school and on the playing field that feels mostly separate from his father and me.

Nolan at one point noted that Farina is the «first bilingual chancellor» for city schools, a point Arroyo argued, saying there had been six chancellors who spoke multiple languages.

The New York City school system plans to expand its dual - language offerings next fall with 32 new programs, including the first Albanian classes.

TheNew York City school system plans to expand its dual - language offerings next fall with 32 new programs, including the first Albanian classes.

Billboards touting language classes at a school in Croatia that used a photo of first lady Melania Trump have been removed after a lawsuit threat.

The post, first reported by The New York Times, was taken down and Loeb issued an apology, saying, «I regret the language I used in expressing my passion for educational choice,» but that didn't stop Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray from calling for Loeb's resignation from Success, the city's largest and most controversial charter school chain, in separate tweets posted Frfirst reported by The New York Times, was taken down and Loeb issued an apology, saying, «I regret the language I used in expressing my passion for educational choice,» but that didn't stop Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray from calling for Loeb's resignation from Success, the city's largest and most controversial charter school chain, in separate tweets posted FrFirst Lady Chirlane McCray from calling for Loeb's resignation from Success, the city's largest and most controversial charter school chain, in separate tweets posted Friday.

ISLA is a 6 - 12 school with 600 students, including many English language learners whose first language is Spanish.

This project illustrated for the first time how the teaching system in schools and the allocation of resources to individual subjects have changed since 1830 in the country's main language regions.

«Climate science is a «data - heavy» discipline with many intellectually interesting questions that can benefit from computational modeling and prediction,» said Dovrolis, a professor in the School of Computer Science, «Cross-disciplinary collaborations are challenging at first — every discipline has its own language, preferred approach and research culture — but they can be quite rewarding at the end.»

An NYU - Bahcesehir research team was the first to document the educational and mental health needs of Syrian refugee children, finding that an overwhelming majority are not enrolled in school in Turkey, partly as a result of language barriers, and about half suffer from PTSD and / or depression.

The ten - year - olds in the study came from both a rural school and an urban school, but all had Norwegian as their first language.

«The results of this study are exciting because this technology has the potential to improve pre-diction of psychosis and ultimately help us prevent psychosis by helping researchers develop re-mediation and training strategies that target the cognitive deficits that may underlie language dis - turbance,» said the study's first author, Cheryl Corcoran, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Program Leader in Psychosis Risk, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

After reviewing the study, Dr. Alvaro Pascual - Leone, an Associate Editor for Annals of Neurology and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass. said, «The epidemiological study by Dr. Bak and colleagues provides an important first step in understanding the impact of learning a second language and the aging brain.

In the first study of its kind, researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found an elevated rate of language delay in girls at 30 months old born to mothers who used acetaminophen during pregnancy, but not in boys.

Alice Louise Blunden is a London based Yoga Medicine senior teacher, primary school teacher, Teach First ambassador, language lover, traveller and life long learner.

This new analysis finds that some groups, including those with a first language of Pashto, Panjabi, Turkish, Portuguese, Czech and Slovak, perform below national standards in primary assessments — despite having entered the English school system at an early stage as infants.

A strength of NCLB is that it draws attention to the academic skills of children from low - income families, children of color, children whose first language is not English, and children with disabilities — groups that historically have not been well served by American schools.

At the other end of the scale, children with Chinese as their first language perform well, averaging between a B and a C at GCSE in Attainment 8 — despite having also entered secondary school in Year 9.

The study was carried out by Education Datalab and found that schools in the North East had the highest scores in the country for 2015, on the grounds of «contextual value», which assesses pupils progress in addition to factors such as gender, ethnicity, depravation, special educational needs and whether English is a second or first language.

Chavez is Latina and a first - generation college student who took ESL (English as a second language) classes at an elementary school in MCPS.

Some EAL pupils, such as late arrivals with Pashto as a first language, score, on average, between an F and an E at GCSE in Attainment 8 having arrived into the English school system in Year 9.

This isn't a new problem — I suspect that most teachers, when they were first studying Julius Caesar in their high school years, saw the language as an obstacle, just as their classes do today.

From the first moment a visitor walks into Indian Island and Beatrice Rafferty schools, there is no mistaking that the students, teachers, and community members value their Native American heritage and language.

Based on preliminary results from the spring 2000 state test, 88 percent of the school's first 8th grade class scored proficient or above in language arts (compared with 47 percent citywide), and 66 percent scored proficient or above in math (versus 21 percent citywide).

Lingotot, the nation - wide modern foreign language education provider has become the first organisation of its kind to receive official accreditation for its courses within primary schools.

Here is just a small selection from over 600 exhibitors you can expect to see this year: Robots in Schools is launching a world first: a humanoid robot that can be programmed using the popular language of Scratch.

First, we use our entire sample to analyze the extent to which the schools that students attend can explain the overall variation in student test scores and fluid cognitive skills, controlling for differences in prior achievement and student demographic characteristics (including gender, age, race / ethnicity, and whether the student is from a low - income family, is an English language learner, or is enrolled in special education).

The First National Curriculum document outlining how Agoriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages can be taught in schools has been released for public consumption.

On John Bear Mitchell's first day of junior high school — off the Penobscot reservation where he lived and had attended grammar school — a teacher scolded him for speaking in his native language.

The biggest demographic difference between BPS and charter schools involves students whose first language is not English.

While the school district contended that the language of IDEA demanded attendance at a public school first, the Second Circuit had already ruled in a prior case that this was an incorrect reading of the law, and could unreasonably require parents either to place children in an inadequate program or shoulder the financial burden of a private education, a result it called «absurd.»

Moreover, in conversations with reporters, Secretary Bell publicly acknowledged — for the first time since February 1981 when he withdrew the proposed Lau rules — that the policy change also applies to about 500 school districts that had negotiated compliance agreements requiring native - language instruction based on the «Lau remedies.»

We opened our doors in fall 2000, and we are the first international school for Seattle and the first — and only — language - immersion school.

Among charter schools adding new campuses, the percentage of incoming students whose first language is not English shot up from just under 30 percent two years ago to 55 percent in 2013.

Jim Wynn: The need to study languages without being controlled by the school clock is the first advantage — learn when you want is crucial for language development.

«English was not my first language,» says one middle school student, «and debate opened up a whole new world of words and literature... it's just amazing.»

New York may become the first state to require every elementary - school student to study a foreign language and pass a statewide test in it before leaving sixth grade.

Christensen is aware of the strong class differences among children as reflected in school achievement, but he is convinced by research that shows that a great part of intellectual ability is determined by the experience of the first 36 months of life, particularly the amount and kind of language directed to children.

The accomplishments that have earned Match such recognition are even more impressive in light of the students the school serves: in the 2012 — 13 school year, 76 percent of Match High School's student population was classified as low - income, 93 percent of students were black or Hispanic, and 20 percent spoke a first language other than Enschool serves: in the 2012 — 13 school year, 76 percent of Match High School's student population was classified as low - income, 93 percent of students were black or Hispanic, and 20 percent spoke a first language other than Enschool year, 76 percent of Match High School's student population was classified as low - income, 93 percent of students were black or Hispanic, and 20 percent spoke a first language other than EnSchool's student population was classified as low - income, 93 percent of students were black or Hispanic, and 20 percent spoke a first language other than English.

Merilee MacKay, a language arts teacher at Sagemont Virtual High School in Weston, Florida, used the program for the first time last year, and plans to continue using it with her pupils.

Many of these schools had higher proportions of students living in challenging circumstances: high poverty and low parent education, or high numbers of students whose first language was neither English nor French and who were struggling with academic language proficiency.

I am not an ELL teacher, but I do work at a school with a high percentage of students for whom English is not a first language.

Andrew Lachman, executive director of the Connecticut Center for School Change, the nonprofit that organized the rounds group in Connecticut, says Elmore made it very clear when he first started working with the group that their language needed to be strictly descriptive.

So even though the child may not have learnt English as a first language, they still may be adept at it and on the whole they seem to do better at school.