Sentences with phrase «immigrant parents»

Increasing the involvement of immigrant parents in their children's education, particularly early on, is also critical, school leaders and experts say.

I am a child of working - class immigrant parents who worked tirelessly to provide their children with a better life and more opportunities than they had growing up.

She has a compelling biography with immigrant parents, support from the left and has a base in the suburbs.

Unfortunately, current federal and state laws prevent young people who are the children of undocumented immigrant parents from receiving financial aid for college.

Many Chinese immigrant parents she served were poor and they asked her a lot of questions such as how to apply for government subsidized housing.

When immigrant parents live in neighborhoods with a high concentration of people from their same ethnic background, their babies weigh less than those of Canadian - born parents.

There I met men and women who reminded me of my own hard - working immigrant parents.

The district now offers a free nine - week class designed to teach low - income and immigrant parents how to navigate the public school system.

She has a special heart for helping Korean - speaking immigrant parents who have gone through difficulties in this country, since she herself has experienced similar circumstances.

How do educators and immigrant parents make meaning of a parent education program geared to accountability goals?

I've seen immigrant parents become school leaders and frustrated teachers become positive, effective educators through such partnerships.

This is a panel of diverse experts discussing the role home cultures play in the way immigrant parents raise their children.

This raises many feelings of cultural disconnect among immigrant parents of all socioeconomic levels.

And sometimes immigrant parents have expectations for their children that carry over from the traditional values of their homeland.

In this country, 63 % of infants and toddlers (under age 3) with immigrant parents — 1.3 million — live in low - income families.

I was raised by two immigrant parents who were busy ensuring that my sister and I had food on the table, went to school, and stayed safe.

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

Another one of us grew up in poverty with two siblings and one working immigrant parent.

Born to Italian immigrant parents in Malden, Mass., in 1936, he attended Phillips Academy in Andover, an old - line prep school with a very up - to - date art program.

Raised in New York by immigrant parents from Jamaica, Tammy currently lives in Dorchester with her husband, a nonprofit executive director and their three children.

Prior to becoming a lawyer, Kademenos grew up as the son of Greek immigrant parents who taught him the value of education and hard work.

Born in Connecticut to Russian immigrant parents, LeWitt credited the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford with his early education in art.

«Maine, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York, and Illinois have been particularly successful in enrolling eligible children with immigrant parents in insurance programs, and are models for the rest of the country,» Dr Seiber notes.

But on Monday, the woman whose Japanese immigrant parents run a sushi restaurant and mother hand - sewed her costumes, made skating history by becoming the first American woman — and only the third woman overall — to land the fiendishly difficult triple Axel jump at an Olympics.

Growing up outside Chicago, Julio César Contreras, whose immigrant parents did not graduate from high school and whose father speaks little English to this day, once had a guidance counselor tell him not to go to college because of his grades.

But in Britain, where he was born to Jamaican immigrant parents in 1965, he's something of a player, not least for having studied under Peter Doig at the Royal College in the mid-1990s.

Ramiro Gomez, born in 1986 in San Bernardino, California to undocumented Mexican immigrant parents who have since become US citizens.

Immigrant parents also face challenges such as language barriers, unfamiliarity with the U.S. school system, low education, difficulty assisting children with homework, and little control over work schedules.

The artist, Sheba Sharrow, was born in Brooklyn in 1926, to Russian Jewish immigrant parents and was raised in Chicago.

A little - noticed provision in the GOP's sweeping tax overhaul plan, which was released on Thursday, would make undocumented immigrant parents ineligible for the federal child tax credit.

So his father — whose own immigrant parents ran a corner grocery store — felt a kind of organic connection to Buffalo, Cuomo said, a «natural association» enshrined in Mario's landmark speech about American principles at the 1984 Democratic convention in San Francisco.

Even so, her mother, like many immigrant parents who speak very little English, depends heavily upon her daughters.

She also conducted a three - year study of the Parent Institute for Quality Education program, which was designed to help new immigrant parents better support their children's academic, social, and emotional growth at home and through school involvement, as well as a three - year evaluation of the California's Healthy Start School - Linked Services initiative.

Mario dwelled on the role played by his own immigrant parents in his son's political education.

Lam's first book, a collection of interconnected short stories, opens with «How To Get Into Medical School, Part 1, a story which at first glance treads familiar territory - an Asian girl of first generation immigrant parents finds herself torn between her budding love for fellow medical student Fitz (an unsuitable boy by dint of him not being Asian) and her drive to succeed at the highest level as a medical student.

«In the process, we have created a county that works for all of its residents, from a newborn born to immigrant parents on the West Side of Buffalo to the fourth generation of family farmer nearing retirement in Marilla.»

Because immigrant parents and their children almost always experience prolonged separations that result in fractured familial relationships, grief, and emotional issues (Portes & Rumbaut, 2001; Suárez - Orozco, Todorova, & Louie, 2002), school agents working with parents must be in tune with the family's dynamics and collaboratively work to establish an education plan for the student.

Chau was born and raised in New Orleans from Vietnamese immigrant parents.

Some of the topics they have examined include the identity development and mental health of Asian American college students; intergenerational conflicts between immigrant parents and their Americanized children; depression and suicide among Korean Americans, with a focus on help - seeking behaviors and the consequences of not seeking help.

He was born to Polish immigrant parents in New York on Jan. 25, 1914, the middle of their three offspring.

The politically conservative attorney who helps immigrant parents without legal documentation execute legal directives for their children loves well.

Born in 1941, Eileen Tumulty is raised by her Irish immigrant parents in Woodside, Queens, in an apartment where the mood swings between heartbreak and hilarity, depending on whether guests are over and how much alcohol has been consumed.

I was to born to European immigrant parents in South Africa.

School Year Filled with Missed Communications: Despite Chancellor's Regulation, Immigrant Parents Still Face Language Barriers This report documented that two out of three parents are not receiving the most critical school document, their child's report card, in a language that they can understand.

All the more reason to invest fully and well in Adult Education, which mission includes teaching immigrant parents English, as well the skills needed to support and empower their children in both school and community life.

She also conducted a three - year study of the Parent Institute for Quality Education program, which was designed to help new immigrant parents better support their children's academic, social, and emotional growth at home and through school involvement, as well as a three - year evaluation of the California's Healthy Start School - Linked Services initiative.