Sentences with phrase «immigrant background»

The report blamed the system of school choice for the failure of almost half of children from immigrant backgrounds (48 %) to make the grade in mathematics.

Children of different immigrant backgrounds participate in pre-K to different degrees.

The New York Times profiles Republican mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis and her frequently invoked immigrant background as she takes policy stances at odds with de Blasio on the issue.

Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos touts his financial experience and his Greek immigrant background as assets in the race.

Today, it's not hard to picture a candidate from a non-white immigrant background getting questioned about what country he's loyal to, something Kawaguchi was too naive or noble to even imagine.

Adolescents reported less problem behaviors than their host country peers, despite immigrant background or parent — child separation.

Discouraging students from immigrant background from applying by requiring parents or students to provide social security numbers or other citizenship information;

Around 300,000 people, mostly of immigrant background, already live with Chagas disease in the U.S., although awareness of the disease is still rudimentary among the public and physicians.

The Adolescent Development Lab at UCLA exists to generate knowledge about the development about youth from diverse ethnic and immigrant backgrounds, and to understand the interaction between social and biological development as it relates to behavior.

It shows what human optimism, combined with self - belief, can achieve for others, whatever minority, race or immigrant background you come from.

He said his immigrant background and public school upbringing helped him relate to New Yorkers from all walks of life.

Anna Kaplan one of five Democrats seeking to replace retiring Rep. Steve Israel, is launching her first TV ad tomorrow, saying her immigrant background makes her the best candidate to take on Donald Trump's «hateful» stand on immigration.

Democratic congressional primary contender Anna Kaplan is launching her first TV ad Wednesday, saying her immigrant background makes her the best candidate to take on Donald Trump's «hateful» stand on immigration.

The short video echoed themes from a speech Bharara gave Thursday night at Cooper Union, which he talked about his immigrant background and his love for America — and implored regular citizens to take action to change problems they see in government.

After the May chapter, Nichols & O'Brien go back for a brief bit about Nichols» childhood and immigrant background.

On average across OECD countries, a socio - economically disadvantaged girl who lives in a single - parent family in a rural area, has an immigrant background, speaks a different language at home from the language of instruction, had not attended pre-primary school, had repeated a grade, and is enrolled in a vocational track has a 83 per cent probability of being a low performer.

As educators and experts assess the quality of student mental - health services in light of the deadly shootings last month at Virginia Tech, the gunman's immigrant background is focusing attention on what those who work with immigrants say is a lack of services tailored to such groups.

In some countries, there are also large differences among students from different home backgrounds and in 23 countries and economies, students without an immigrant background reported a stronger sense of belonging than immigrant students, even after accounting for socio - economic status.

Excerpts from the Forum Unz: I come from an immigrant background myself in that my mother, who was born in Los Angeles, grew up not speaking a word of English.

According to the new OECD report, «Starting Strong 2017: Key OECD indicators on early childhood education and care,» some countries are managing this process well and as a result see a «very modest impact of the social and immigrant background of children on their learning and social outcomes.»

It cited the US as an example where 21 per cent of all students have an immigrant background, while those schools in disadvantaged areas have 40 per cent of its student population from immigrant backgrounds.

The volume examines the relationship between student performance and socio - economic status, and describes how other individual student characteristics, such as immigrant background and family structure, and school characteristics, such as school location, are associated with socio - economic status and performance.

In this webinar, sponsored by the Center on Enhancing Early Learning Opportunities (CEELO), Dr. Steven Barnett, Principal Investigator of CEELO and Director of the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) and Dr. Milagros Nores, Associate Director of Research at NIEER, will present data that looks at how children from various language and immigrant backgrounds participate in pre-K programs and at how these children perform relative to their White peers at Kindergarten entry.

The achievement gap that exists between pupils from immigrant backgrounds and native - born immigrants «all but vanishes» once the second generation is born.

Coming from an immigrant background herself, Sung - Ae is deeply convicted about the need to serve ALL children no matter what background and ensure that they have an equal opportunity for a great life in this country.

In addition, it highlights the relative strengths and weaknesses of each school system and examines how they are related to individual student characteristics, such as gender, immigrant background and socio - economic status.

But when it comes to young men, we tend to label groups of them — particularly those from immigrant backgrounds, often those deeply affected by poverty and lack of opportunity — as something possibly a bit more sinister.

The second reason is that Aurora is a woman of color like me, from an immigrant background — and there are only a few of women of color working in legal nonprofit technology.

Enrollment was performed in the postpartum ward of an inner - city public hospital (Bellevue Hospital Center) serving familes with low SES, primarily from immigrant backgrounds, from November 1, 2005, through October 31, 2008.

Single - parent status, immigrant background, and limited extracurricular child activities were associated with lower enrollment.

In this Research Brief we present evidence on the socio - economic vulnerability of immigrant children and highlight the relative contribution of immigrant background to the risks of falling behind in household income, education, health and life satisfaction.