Sentences with phrase «immigrant families into»

He urges public schools to embrace their mission of serving as «the mediating institution to transition immigrant families into successful Americans.»

Key to this model is understanding the role that public schools play, not only in educating our youth, but also in serving as the mediating institution to successfully transition immigrant families into the American way of life, into making American values, culture, norms, and language their own.

And the public schools were unabashed about their role in turning the children of immigrant families into Americans.

Not exact matches

In the open letter, Engstrom and Franklin write, «Limits on the movement immigrants — including lawful visa holders — into the U.S. based on their nationality or religion not only seed fear and uncertainty for our friends, families, and co-workers, but are also antithetical to American values and sends the message that the U.S. is no longer open for innovation.

Illegal immigrants came from Bangladesh and Pakistan into India and each of the family has at least 7 - 8 kids and no food to provide for.

I worry that many of the children of those immigrants will assimilate all too well into the actual country we live in, with its horrendously unequal distribution of social capital and family stability.

With municipal ID's and driver's licenses, undocumented immigrants today would be able to better provide for their families, contribute more to the economy and fully integrate into the American mainstream, just as generations of immigrants to this country have before them.»

He championed a $ 15 minimum wage and enacted a 12 - week paid family leave policy; got strict gun control into law; introduced a free (though imperfect) college tuition program for certain students; banned fracking; allocated $ 10 million for a defense fund for immigrants facing deportation; and raised the age for juvenile offenders to 18.

Inner London on the deprived fringe of Fulham and Kensington, where upmarket bars turn into fruit and veg stalls and the old west end communities rub up against the Asian and Caribbean immigrant families who frequent the street markets and halal butchers.

«The reaction to me when I said perhaps we should accept ten Syrian families... for the hundred thousand people in Bassetlaw... it was 99.9 % against any immigrants and that includes Labour party members attacking me on social media for daring to suggest that ten more immigrant families should be allowed into this country.

Laurie Osmond, an Onteora school board member, said undocumented immigrants fear they will not be able to notify family members if they are to be taken into custody by federal officials.

He said he wanted to inject fairness into an «embarrassingly and wrongly inflexible» system that expels immigrants without discretion, without considering the circumstances of a person's life or family, or even holding hearings to consider the possibility that deportation might be unwise or unjust.

Lisa DeCamp, M.D., M.S.P.H., assistant professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the study's senior author, noted that although parental surveys of this kind have weaknesses in terms of parent responses reflecting the breadth of traumas children may be exposed to, the findings, published in the Oct. issue of the journal Pediatrics, offer new insight into potentially higher childhood resiliency among immigrant families supported by strong community networks and a strong sense of cultural identity.

It will keep increasing since we have non-existent immigration restrictions and the immigrants that are getting into the country are having large families.

A look into the life of a Bangladeshi immigrant living in Brick Lane, London, with her family & husband from an arranged marriage.

Losing her father before ever being born, Jupiter grows up spending her days scrubbing toilets in upscale Chicago suburbs, and her nights crammed into a house with her big Russian immigrant family.

Delving into the lives of both the case officers and the secretive, highly insular Kveld - Ulf, a community of werewolves living deep in the borough, the show based on the IDW Publishing comic created by JT Petty examines city politics, immigrant communities and families divided by ambition, secrecy and tradition.

The best of the Cannes films engaging with those topics is Michael Haneke's Happy End, a chilling tale of a wealthy family whose blindness to their privilege — and to the immigrants in their hometown of Calais, where one of Europe's biggest migrant crises has been going on for years — has turned them into monsters.

The central problem of the picture has a lot to do with the idea that Cronenberg has again taken a pre-existing script and reordered it along distinctly Cronenbergian lines — that what must have read initially as a sociological text on another facet of the immigrant experience (much like screenwriter Steve Knight's Dirty Pretty Things) now plays like one of Cronenberg's investigations into the difficulty of parsing concepts like «normal» and «family» in the crushing crucible of bugs pretending to be human among humans.

As a Mexican American, I was born into a low - income, working class, immigrant family in Dallas, Texas.

Through their stories, viewers gain insight into situations and challenges faced by immigrant students and their families.

«What's happening now, all over the country, is an increasing racial, linguistic, and religious diversity» as high numbers of immigrant families settle into small rural communities.

With my finance being of Chinese descent, I have enjoyed a first - hand look into the culture and beliefs of an immigrant Asian family.

This PR Power Hour will dive into the needs of immigrant and refugee families and the partnership, engagement and academic strategies schools can use to ensure every student is ready and able to learn.

Cultural Diversity E604: Assessment of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students for Special Education Eligibility (2000) E584: Critical Behaviors and Strategies for Teaching Culturally Diverse Students (1999) E650: Diagnosing Communication Disorders in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students (2003) E500: Empowering Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students with Learning Problems (1991) E500s: Reforzando a los alumnos Diversos Culturalmente y Lingüí con Aprendizaje (1999) E596: Five Strategies to Reduce Overrepresentation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education (2000) E520: Identifying and Serving Recent Immigrant Children Who Are Gifted (1993) E601: Infusing Multicultural Content into the Curriculum for Gifted Students (2000) E589: The Implications of Culture on Developmental Delay (1999) E566: Reducing the Disproportionate Representation of Minority Students in Special Education (1998) E544: Underachievement Among Gifted Minority Students: Problems and Promises (1997) E614: Cultural Reciprocity Aids Collaboration with Families (2001)

My forays into family history gave me a good impression of my great - grandparents» immigrant community.

But in her fourth novel, The Spy Lover (Thomas & Mercer), she pulls from her Alabama - born father's family history to tell a gripping Civil War story about three complicated, suffering people — a nurse who's spying for the Union behind enemy lines, a Chinese immigrant who escapes his conscription into the Confederacy to fight for the Union instead, and a wounded Confederate cavalryman.

The award - winning Italian author Melania G. Mazzucco weaves her own family history into a great American novel of the immigrant experience.

Shaara was born into a family of Italian immigrants in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

As many immigrants did, my great - grandparents came through Ellis Island in the late 19th century, where their families soon waded into the melting pot of Manhattan — into the land of elevated trains, skyscrapers, electric light and streetcars, as well as tenements, railroads and factories.

Born into a Flemish immigrant family in Haarlem, Segers also lived in Leiden, Amsterdam, Utrecht and The Hague, where he died.

Panel member Gordon Maynard of Maynard Kischer Stojicevic in Vancouver said broadly speaking, there are four paths for being accepted into Canada as an immigrant: economic, in which the selection is skill - based; family reunification; asylum; and humanitarian and compassionate grounds.

The report finds that «[r] acialized law licensees often come from immigrant families or are starting out without family network that include lawyers... so are thought not to have the same opportunities in law school or their entry into practice as non-racialized licensees.»

«We prepared a list of questions for Senator Obama on a range of difficult immigration issues, including immigration reform, undocumented immigration, family immigration, local (anti--RRB- immigration ordinances, the U.S. government's treatment of Elvira Arrellano, integration of immigrants into U.S. society, the deaths along the U.S. / Mexico border, and his vote in favor of the Secure Fence Act.»

Over a candid conversation, George shared his story of growing up in an immigrant family, his decision to pursue a law degree and his insight into the future of the legal profession.

«The changes seem to turn immigrants into economic commodities and don't appear to take into consideration the family and societal values immigrants who may be excluded under the changes could bring to Canada,» says Mario Bellissimo.

A group of lawyers has tapped into technology to make sure that immigrants and families waiting for them at airports around the country have access to free legal help when they need it.

February 6, 2017 — «A group of lawyers has tapped into technology to make sure that immigrants and families waiting for them at airports around the country have access to free legal help when they need it.

The Bridging Cultures Project was designed to train teachers at the preschool and elementary level to become aware of the collectivistic or familistic cultural orientation that children from Latino immigrant families with roots in Mexico or Central America bring with them from home into their school environments.

«Many of these immigrants may be waiting for other family members to join them before setting down more permanent roots,» explained Painter, who plans future research into the disparity in homeownership rates.