Sentences with phrase «immigrant children doing»

Yet something there — along with other things of course, such as parent involvement and children's feeling of obligation to hard - working parents — contributes to the common pattern of immigrant children doing better than their native - born classmates.

Too many minority and immigrant children don't have the services like after school and ESL that they need.

- LSUC OR... English as a second language means they can't translate their skills as easily... AND... young immigrant children don't want to be lawyers (GASP!)

Not exact matches

Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen acknowledges that gaps in employment and wages do exist, but says government has been working on designing settlement programs to improve opportunities for immigrant women and their children.

He said today that Apple will do «everything we can» to encourage Congress to make the bipartisan Dream Act — legislation that would offer a path to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of young unauthorized immigrants brought to the U.S. as children if they graduated from high school or obtained a GED — permanent.

Yes to a decent refugee policy that provides a home for desperate men, women and children fleeing war: immigrants and refugees helped to build this country, and will continue to do so.

Do the math: More than 40 % of Fortune 500 companies were founded by immigrants or their children.

This may work for some people, but it doesn't work for the family earning minimum wage, or the couple facing infertility, or this awesome church community of immigrants that shares the responsibility of child - rearing together.

Self - reliant yet familial immigrants did what was required to succeed in order that their children could go to college and prosper more easily and more honorably as free and equal persons.

For example, how do immigrant children fare when faced with a new social context to which their fathers» cultural values and behaviours must be adapted?

I do find it completely bizarre that, since I was born as a citizen here in 1974, a national newspaper is proposing that my children, born here in the last 5 years, are «immigrants» and somehow less British than their friends.

Andrew Cuomo doesn't care that illegal immigrants that are here in this country kill innocent Americans everyday, driving intoxicated, street gangs, cheap labor off the books, fathering american children, taxpayers are flipping the bill here supporting them with housing, food stamps, medicaid, healthcare plus they're out there working off the books for cheap labor and they don't pay taxes.

Speaker Silver says while his Democratic members feel strongly about offering tuition aid to children of immigrants, they do not have a consensus on a proposal by Governor Cuomo, to offer free college to inmates in state prisons.

State leaders and advocacy groups have accused the board of making decisions that favor private school students at the expense of public school children, many of whom are low - income, have disabilities or are immigrants who don't speak English.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's Park Slope home was the destination for immigration activists Tuesday night; they marched through Brooklyn to protest the senator voting in favor a short - term federal funding bill Monday that did not include protection for undocumented immigrants who were brought into the United States as children.

Britain should do more to look after the «special needs» of children who arrive as asylum - seekers and immigrants, the EU's commissioner on human rights warned today.

What can be done to make the legislation fair; should judges consider community support; will securing boarders trump the path to citizenship; can legislation include equal protection for LGBT immigrants; do citizen children need both parents?

Brake referred to the BBC's recent drive to get children interested in classical music, using 10 pieces of music and dressing them up with film clips and different instruments, and suggested that something similar could be done to change the caricature of immigrants.

The report, Safe Havens: Protecting and Supporting New York State's Immigrant Students — released by The Education Trust — New York, Advocates for Children of New York, the New York Immigration Coalition and The Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, Inc. — finds that while the New York State Education Department (SED) and the Attorney General's Office, as well as several individual school districts, have taken a number of important steps, there is much more to do.

Republican leaders did not speak, though some individual GOP members said they voted no because taxpayers should not finance college aid for the children of undocumented immigrants, and that they are already eligible for lower in - state rates at public universities.

«We [have] heard countless stories of New Yorkers empowered through the program, including teenagers who did not previously have access to ID, immigrant mothers who can now enter school buildings and participate in their child's school with confidence, and transgender individuals who can self - designate their gender for the first - time,» said Nisha Agarwal, Commissioner of the Mayor's Office of Immigrantimmigrant mothers who can now enter school buildings and participate in their child's school with confidence, and transgender individuals who can self - designate their gender for the first - time,» said Nisha Agarwal, Commissioner of the Mayor's Office of ImmigrantImmigrant Affairs.

In other words, immigrants» children speak their home language, but their grandchildren do not.

But in the House, some Democrats are unhappy that the pact does not include protections for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children, and some conservative Republicans oppose the additional spending.

«Although the share of children in immigrant families did affect the child poverty rate in the analyses, the findings suggest that media coverage and public discussion on the effects of immigration on child poverty do not seem to correspond with the empirical evidence and are likely to overstate the issue.»

«This points to two possible explanations: There are protective measures we don't see, such as resilience, or we're not asking the right questions that address adverse experiences specific to immigrant children such as fear of deportation of separation,» says Tania Caballero, M.D., M.H.S., a pediatrics research and clinical fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the paper's first author.

The next steps toward better understanding ACEs for Hispanic children from immigrant families, says Caballero, are to determine what, if any, resilience factors do exist and what traumas may be hidden or specific to the population in order to better guide policy and invest in resources that support those resilience factors and help address such traumas.

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.

The amount of money that the AND receives from the food industry is fairly insignificant in terms of the AND's overall budget, but the work that thousands of registered dietitians are doing in under - served communities, with children and families, with the elderly, with immigrants in helping improve health is worth billions of dollars in terms of health care savings.

For those of you who don't know DACA is the executive order placed by Obama which allows illegal immigrants brought over as children to work and study in the US and it protects them from deportation.

I don't think they totally understood what a sensitive topic it was for the children of immigrants.

(In fact, Mandarin could only be taught as a foreign language since it is only one of the many dialects spoken in China and is rarely the native tongue of Chinese immigrants to the U.S.) But these programs do not fit the theoretical model of bilingual education since the children learn to read and write first in English and the Mandarin is only a small part of their instruction.

Many are immigrants, or children of immigrants, who do not speak English at home.

«A common theme in research on immigration and education is that immigrant children often say they feel they are on their own because they don't have a lot of family resources,» Louie said, noting that «American schools are structured in a way so that parents are advocates of children.»

«As a group, you also bring to the forefront a question that is of critical importance to me as the dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education: How do we integrate immigrant - origin children into our education system and ensure that they are successful?»

Children of immigrants in the classroom force educators to determine how best to do this work when students» backgrounds do not match their own.

Hispanic children do not experience this widening test - score gap relative to otherwise similar white students; indeed, they systematically close the gap, perhaps because their initial scores are artificially low due to the relative inexperience with the English language among some immigrants and their children (see Figure 2).

Even the famed «steamer classes» that served immigrant children in the cities of the East and Midwest often did not keep them in school beyond the first year or two.

The work kids do: Mexican and Central American immigrant children's contributions to households and schools in California.

Hopefully they will do better than they did two years ago when Todd Rokita, who chairs a key subcommittee of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, engaged in scaremongering against undocumented immigrant children coming from Central America.

What reformers need to do is give attention to a much more - important matter: Building brighter futures for the 57,000 undocumented immigrant children from Central America crossing the Mexican border into America.

When she had an opportunity to immediately demand Trump to apologize for his rank demagoguery against immigrant and minority children during his campaign, DeVos didn't take it.

These tests deny diplomas to tens of thousands of students, disproportionately children of color, immigrants or youth with special needs; they do not improve college or career prospects but feed the school - to - prison pipeline; new Common Core tests are likely to increase the dropout rate; and more.

The education of undocumented students is guaranteed by the Plyler vs. Doe decision, and certain procedures must be followed when registering immigrant children in school to avoid violation of their civil rights.

This decision is vital because practices that deny or discourage immigrant children and families from public schooling do the following...

It seems to be to do with the expectations that parents hold for their children, the work ethic of the east Asian immigrant group, along with the selection of schools by the parents as well,» Dr Jerrim argued.

Although students from immigrant families are the fastest - growing segment of the ELL population, they don't account for all the children who are labeled English language learners.

Many educators are not aware that the education of undocumented students is guaranteed by the Plyler vs. Doe decision or that certain procedures must be followed when registering immigrant children in school to avoid violating restrictions on obtaining personal information without obtaining prior parental consent.

Poverty, illness, immigrants from other countries who do not speak English, hungry children and parents» their own failure to get an education are huge barriers.

She's also an immigrant success story herself, and a no - nonsense advocate for children who doesn't accept excuses or take «no» for an answer.

Many are the children of immigrants from Pakistan or India, and many do not speak English at home.