Sentences with phrase «immigrant children often»

The result is that monolingual English speakers rarely develop bilingual competencies and immigrant children often transition from their home language to English by adulthood.

«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.»

However, high hopes and high expectations for immigrant children often run headlong into hard realities in the educational system.

Not exact matches

DACA immigrants are people who were brought to the country by their parents when they were young children — often referred to as «Dreamers.»

Immigrant Jewish children in New York's garment district often were raised by grandparents or great - grandparents, as were Italian children in Chicago and San Francisco.

Mark - Viverito, a native of Puerto Rico who has made immigrant rights a cornerstone of her speakership and often speaks on the topic at the national level, will also call for increased help and protections for undocumented children across the country.

The children, who come from countries including Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador, typically are eligible for either special immigrant juvenile status or asylum due to the dangerous and often violent situations they are fleeing from in their home countries.

Other supporters of the city ID card say immigrant New Yorkers without government - issued ID cards often have difficulty picking their children up at school or using health services.

Senators and witnesses both invoked Google, Yahoo, and eBay as examples of immigrants» reputedly special propensity to found great corporations; as often happens, the discussion failed to note that these companies» foreign - born founders and co-founders arrived in this country as small children and were educated in American schools.

A reflection of his own past and experiences, many of Mr. Mengestu's characters are immigrants or the children of immigrants, often from Africa, as he is; and so an underlying theme is what it means to be American.

In his recent book, titled Immigrants Raising Citizens, he concludes that these children often show signs of developmental delays due to the additional challenges posed by their parents» status.»

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.

«Although family engagement is a key predictor of children's school success, many families — especially those impacted by racial and income inequities and immigrant status — often lack genuine opportunities for engagement.

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.

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.

This has often been the case with magnet schools and is now happening with language immersion programs originally geared toward helping Latino and other children from immigrant households improve their English fluency.

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.

Steinberg and Halsted (National Coalition of Advocates for Students, 1988) reported that immigrant children have often been tracked into English as a Second Language programs, then steered towards vocational courses.

Teenagers are often embarrassed by their parents, but children of immigrants are especially prone to feeling shamed by their parents» accents and perceived foreignness.

Hà's story touches upon many themes that I like to keep an open dialogue about with my children, among them: the often heartbreaking and perilous lives and background stories of immigrants and refugees, and the effects of bullying.

While private colleges are often seen as bastion of privilege, Augustana was founded to help the children of immigrants make their way in a new land.

Because as you so astutely noted, a lot of the people in positions of privilege (i.e. white westerners) see the world through a different lens than a person of colour (especially folks like me who are the children of immigrants, are often «othered» in their adopted lands, and have a very different relationships with travel).

There is actually a debate raging with some heat at the moment in Norway, which has stepped up child apprehensions dramatically, often of Romanian immigrant parents, and such increases are occurring in other nordic nations.

What's At Stake: The authority of an employer to prohibit minority staff from speaking to one another in their mother tongue at the workplace, since immigrant and racialized people are often forbidden to speak their mother tongue at work and in schools, much like Aboriginal children in residential schools in the previous century.

It is most often used in cases dealing with detention of would - be immigrants; prisoners; children; and persons with mental disability.

Over the past 12 months, the A2J Sector has begun — slowly and tentatively — to reach out to include social agencies — often staffed by «non-lawyers», but working on the frontlines of the A2J crisis — that offer support and resources to women, to men, to children, to the mentally ill, to new immigrants, etc..

There are many ways an immigrant could prove they were once in a genuine relationship without continuing to live with an abusive spouse: for example, immigration officers often rely on documented love letters, text messages, emails, photos from events like weddings and anniversaries, marriage certificates, children's birth certificates, letters from family or friends, and sworn affidavits.

Research indicates that immigrants with limited English speaking abilities often turn to their children to act as intermediaries to pass on information, including legal information.

Service providers who work with these children often face great challenges especially when the specific needs of these children and their immigrant families are unknown to them.

Our comparative, multivocal ethnographic study of teachers in five U.S. cities in a number of early childhood settings suggests that immigrant teachers often experience difficulty applying their cultural knowledge to the education and care of young children of immigrants because they face a dilemma between their pedagogical training and their cultural knowledge; between the expectations of their fellow teachers and of parents; and between the goals of being culturally responsive to children, families, and their community and being perceived as professional by their fellow teachers and their superiors.

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