Sentences with phrase «from poor language»

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In 1917 and then 1924, lawmakers motivated by rhetoric calling migrants from poor countries «undesirable» - similar to Trump's language today - introduced a literacy test and severe restrictions that dramatically reduced immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe.

Coverage in the English language press has been very poor as can be expected from corporate media.

Neuhaus argues that such poor drafting resulted from the bishops being in a media — inspired panic, he ignores the fact that the very definition he quotes refers to Canon 1395 — 2, which itself, like canon law generally, employs this kind of very vague language.

Research from a recent longitudinal study on 120 toddlers reveals that poor language skills lead to later behavioral problems (James).

There was, however, a decline in the number of pupils taking core subjects such as geography and history and modern languages, and a marked rise in the number of non - academic / vocational qualifications being taken, particularly by pupils from the poorest backgrounds or those attending schools in disadvantaged areas.

Kennedy again easily won re-election to the Senate in 2006, winning 69 percent of the vote against Republican language school owner Kenneth Chase, who suffered from very poor name recognition.

For example, «the whole idea that musical training and language development may be connected came from me talking to a couple of teachers who said they had students who were poor readers and who also struggled with learning to play a musical instrument and with copying musical patterns and wondered if those two things could be connected.»

Bilingual children from low - income homes are at greater risk of falling behind their peers in developing the appropriate language skills for their age group, leading to poorer academic achievement over time.

The growing number of children who bring to the classroom an array of social problems — from the stresses of poor or broken homes to a lack of adequate motivation or language proficiency — represent the greatest obstacle they face, the principals reported in an informal poll taken here last week.

Thus, although both groups may post lower rates of school readiness, Hispanic children from Spanish - speaking homes face the additional challenge of learning the language of the classroom, making them especially vulnerable to poor academic outcomes.

They don't primarily talk the language of «accountability» but rather focus on getting from «poor to good» or «good to great» as the case may be.

Seventy percent of the 550 students in grades K through 12 are Hmong and 20 percent are African American; 70 percent come from homes in which English is the second language; most are poor.

Reading researcher Keith Stanovich dubbed this structural advantage in language and knowledge the «Matthew Effect,» from the biblical passage in the Gospel of Matthew about the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.

Participants learn through: - Participating in a fun pub - style quiz to eradicate common spelling, punctuation, and grammar misconceptions and errors; - Considering the role of parents, their needs and interests, and what they expect from their child's school, as a means to understand why schools sometimes receive difficult communications; - Reading and analysing examples of poor written correspondence, considering how both the tone and the accuracy can be improved; - Exploring different language strategies to create a personal, polite tone within emails, by considering the connotations of different words; - Taking away help sheets that can be referred to whenever written communications are being drafted.

Focusing on academic issues are the less strident but still determined critics who say many non-native English speakers are graduating from school systems with poor reading skills in both English and their native language.

A large - scale study tracking the progress of more than 270 000 students has concluded that teaching reading through a synthetic phonics programme has long - term benefits for children from poorer backgrounds and those who do not speak English as a first language.

A child who comes to school malnourished, from a poor household, having a mother with less than a high school education, or a parent whose primary language is not English is much more likely than a classmate without those factors to have academic and behavioral problems later on.

Two peeves — many videos just disappear (because they come from youtube and are deleted) and sometimes 2nd language students have poor keyboard skills.

Both tests are designed to fail the vast majority of children and are particularly discriminatory to children who face challenges such as those who come from poorer families, those who are not fluent in the English language and those who need special education services.

When a TPS is failing, the union whine usually goes like this, «Our high school grads are reading on a third grade level because schools are underfunded, or because the students come from poor families, or English isn't their first language, or...» (Never explained is how charters usually get better results than TPS and do it with considerably less money.)

And from being among the world's poorest, with a mix of ethnicities, religions and languages, Singapore has overtaken the wealthiest countries in Europe, North America and Asia to become the number one in education.

This year's House bill would provide extra money for students who are poor, English language learners or live a long way from school, among other things.

Annual reports from the NEPC find that students in virtual schools «are more likely to be white and less likely to be poor, have disabilities and / or be English language learners than students attending brick and mortar schools.»

The Common Core SBAC test is particularly unfair and discriminatory for students of color, who come from poor families, who face English language challenges or who utilize special education services.

What would happen if I had two middle schools in my suburban town and one had a lottery — and one didn't and the one with the lottery ended up with the students who are less poor, face less language issues, don't come from immigrant, have fewer special education students....

Common Core testing is unfair to all public schools students, but it is particularly damaging to students who come from poorer families, those that have English language challenges and those who require special education services.

Democrats argued that rescinding the rules opens loopholes that states can use to shield poorly performing schools from scrutiny, especially when they fail to serve poor children, minorities, English - language learners and students with disabilities.

Costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars, the SBAC test is worse than a colossal waste of time and money because it is being used in an underhanded attempt to tell students, especially those who utilize special education services, those who need help learning the English language and those who come from poor households that they are failures.

Hartford class sizes are too large and there aren't sufficient services to help students who come from poor families, those who aren't fluent in the English language and those who need special education services.

Like all standardized tests, the Common Core SBAC discriminates against students who come from poor households, students who are not fluent in the English language and students who have special education needs.

Mostly your «Other» file will be full of spam and hilarious messages from guys with poor language skills who think Facebook is a dating site.

My telephone calls and e-mails had people with poor American dialects who were obviously not from this country and not had the command of the English language to understand people.

If your dog doesn't approach the crate or if he has a fearful response like barking or running away from the crate or approaching it with fearful body language, you'll need to take this slower approach to help the poor boy see what a lovely place his crate is.

In contrast to postwar American artists who constructed a language of freedom through an innovative use of traditional materials, many Italian artists — both those who were part of arte povera and those more indirectly influenced by it — adopted «poor» materials in order to free themselves from the

Rä di Martino's «Poor Poor Jerry» at Copperfield in London, the artist's second solo exhibition with the gallery, draws on the language of animation and film to develop an emotive, absurd and chaotic narrative that cherry picks from cinematographies audio history.

Back in 2006, when the California Legislature was wrangling over AB 32, then - Assemblywoman Fran Pavley added language that would force regulators to pay attention to those parts of the state suffering from especially poor air quality.

Another notable victory by the United States was to include language making clear that no system of assisting the poorest states with the unavoidable impacts from global warming — storm, flood, drought and pestilence — would constitute a legal liability claim for compensation from the rich countries.

It's a shorthand language that keeps corporate life from being solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

In contrast, The DAO situation does not seem to result solely from poor programming; the programming language used to write contracts in Ethereum should have better semantics, and be amenable to formal verification.

Without hesitation my response was «Phraseology»... in general, the vast majority of self - crafted resumes I see suffer from poor use of the English language, thought flow, grammar, and all other factors that contribute to a well written document.

Sometimes, however, editors receive good story ideas (as for Internet blogs) from people whose command of the language and its rules are poor.

Poor language use in a resume could make an applicant for a teaching position eliminated from consideration.

The clear social gradient associated with children's vocabulary, emerging literacy, well - being and behaviour is evident from birth to school entry.1 These trajectories track into adolescence and correspond to poorer educational attainment, income and health across the life course.2 — 10 Neuroimaging research extends the evidence for these suboptimal trajectories, showing that children raised in poverty from infancy are more likely to have delayed brain growth with smaller volumetric size of the regions particularly responsible for executive functioning and language.11 This evidence supports the need for further effort to redress inequities that arise from the impact of adversity during the potential developmental window of opportunity in early childhood.

Women who had (a) a severe mental illness or were unable answer the study's questionnaire because of their difficult circumstances, or (b) a poor command of the Japanese language were excluded from the study.

ECD programmes can take many forms, including promotion of good health and nutrition, support for safe and stimulating environments, protection from risks such as violence or abandonment, parenting support and early learning experiences, media, preschools and community groups.4 Poverty is the key underlying cause of poor child development; children living in poverty are exposed to many negative influences, including poor physical environments, inadequate nutrition, parental stress and insufficient cognitive stimulation.5 Undernutrition can influence brain development directly by affecting brain structure and function, or indirectly via poor physical or motor development, in addition to other pathways.6 — 8 Exposure to multiple co-occurring risks most likely contributes to greater disparities in developmental trajectories among children with differential exposure.9 — 12 This paper focuses on associations between specific aspects of children's physical environments — access to improved water and sanitation (W&S)-- and childhood development as measured by performance on a test of receptive language.

During the prenatal and infant periods, families have been identified on the basis of socioeconomic risk (parental education, income, age8, 11) and / or other family (e.g. maternal depression) or child (e.g. prematurity and low birth weight12) risks; whereas with preschoolers a greater emphasis has been placed on the presence of child disruptive behaviour, delays in language / cognitive impairment and / or more pervasive developmental delays.6 With an increased emphasis on families from lower socioeconomic strata, who typically face multiple types of adversity (e.g. low parental educational attainment and work skills, poor housing, low social support, dangerous neighbourhoods), many parenting programs have incorporated components that provide support for parents» self - care (e.g. depression, birth - control planning), marital functioning and / or economic self - sufficiency (e.g. improving educational, occupational and housing resources).8, 13,14 This trend to broaden the scope of «parenting» programs mirrors recent findings on early predictors of low - income children's social and emotional skills.