Sentences with phrase «generation immigrant children»

While first - and second - generation immigrant children are the fastest - growing segment of the U.S. population under the age of 15, their needs are often lost in the debate over services for immigrants, concludes a report from a National Academy of Sciences panel.

The comparison group included 375 first - generation immigrant children of similar racial / ethnic backgrounds and socioeconomic status who attended the same schools before the intervention was implemented.

In a new longitudinal study, first - generation immigrant children who took part in a community - based intervention had higher scores on math and reading tests than their first - generation immigrant peers who did not participate in the program.

In the study, 292 first - generation immigrant children who attended eight high - poverty, urban elementary schools in Boston took part in the intervention, called City Connects, in the early 2000s.

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First - generation immigrants or their children had founder roles in more than 40 % of the Fortune 500, including such marquee companies as AT&T (No. 11), Procter & Gamble (No. 31), Goldman Sachs (No. 74), Pfizer (No. 51), eBay (No. 180), Google (No. 46), Intel (No. 53), Kraft (No. 156), Cigna (No. 97), and Kohl's (No. 151).

My parents and in - laws are children of the second - generation; born in America and raised in the last years of the depression, they inherited the immigrant's unconditional passion for the new country, and happily melted into the pot» Americanizing their own names and Christening their children John instead of Gianni; Mary instead of Maria.

It's territory they know well: Each of the of members is either a first generation immigrant, or the children of immigrant parents.

Catholic schools have kept generations of immigrant children in the bosom of the Church while helping to lift them to economic success.

«We've been setting our sights on how to get to the second generation buyer, children of immigrants who over the past couple of years have been going to retailers such as Safeway, Kroger's and Whole Foods.

«These findings suggest family and community factors at play that help children in immigrant families buffer the effects of adverse childhood experiences, and that whatever these resiliency factors are, we should work towards protecting and extending them to subsequent nonimmigrant generations,» says

Three generations of each are depicted: the McFlys and Biff of the present; Marty's children and Griff, Biff's grandson, in the future; and Seamus and Maggie, Irish McFly immigrants, and Buford Tannen in a century past.

I hold certain identities near and dear to my heart — as a 1.75 - generation immigrant from Peru; the oldest of six children; a child of a low - income, single - parent family; a first - generation college student — the list goes on.

In a class with immigrant and first - generation Asian American students, educators need to have a broad sense of the difficulties that these children might be facing.

Ferede, a former fourth - grade teacher for first and second - generation immigrant and refugee children in a high - needs area in Toronto often saw a disparity between her students» community and the education system.

You have dismissed the realization that a majority of immigrants and first - generation low socioeconomic Spanish - speaking parents WANT that for their children, not Spanish - first «Bilingual Education» gradually transitioning tto English without ever getting there all the way to my university, Cal State LA.

«Latino US - Citizen Children of Immigrants: A Generation at High Risk.»

Among many immigrant populations from other language groups, even those who arrived generations ago, Saturdays are reserved for children to learn their home language, be it Greek, Italian, Chinese, Arabic or any other language represented in this linguistically diverse city.

In addition, immigrant families who speak languages other than English often struggle to transmit their home language to their children with many second - generation and most third - generation children having a strong or exclusive preference for English.

She talks to pastors, takes seminars from hyper motivational - speaker gurus, interviews high school students who are children of first generation immigrants to the U.S., and mingles with Harvard Business School graduate students - all with the goal of fleshing out what would otherwise be strictly data and survey samples.

With grace and respect, Gilbert manages to address the existential quandaries of both second - generation American teens and their immigrant parents who must make profoundly life - changing choices to give their children the best life possible.

Born and raised in Chicago, Podesta was the eldest child to a Greek - American mother and first - generation Italian immigrant father.

Furthermore, the largest percentage of the Millennial generation, who are the agents and consumers of the future, are immigrants or children of immigrants.