Sentences with phrase «minority children learn»

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Their children also need to regularly connect with and learn from minority leaders of color.

Intrigued, I clicked on one of their links where I learned that they want to adopt a child who is South Asian, Indian, Hispanic, biracial, multiracial, or minority and are open to considering open adoption.

When the Howard League published an independent review of the use of restraint against children by Lord Carlile he found staff were too quick to resort to violence and that it was disproportionately used against ethnic minority children and those with learning difficulties.

«The Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant helps support the learning needs of some of the most vulnerable children in our schools yet the per - pupil value of the grants has been frozen in cash terms.

Enck blames the decline on more and more young people growing up in urban cultures removed from hunting, an increasing proportion of ethnic minorities (who are less likely to hunt) in the population and — surprise, surprise — the rise in single - parent families «with fewer opportunities for children to learn about hunting from their fathers».

Scientists have chronicled the impact of negative expectations in settings where they occur naturally, such as classrooms that «track» students from early youth and in society's treatment of stigmatized groups such as racial minorities, the poor, the elderly, the homeless, convicts and children with learning disabilities.

The association of maternal obesity during gestation and chronic conditions in children is beginning to be explored, 37,38 and previous studies alluded to an increased rate of health problems generally in caregivers of children with disabilities.39, 40 Associations between male sex and poverty and behavior / learning problems are congruent with other studies.41 - 43 The association of minority race / ethnicity with asthma and obesity and the inverse relationship of minority race / ethnicity with other physical conditions and behavior / learning problems are consistent with previous studies.12,43 - 45

The higher odds of prevalence of asthma and obesity among ethnic minority children contributed to these differences, although ethnic minority children were less likely to have reported other physical conditions and behavior / learning problems.

However, the combination diminishes student learning, particularly for minorities and low income children, who are most likely to have weaker teachers.

In all but a tiny minority of cases, teachers want their children to genuinely learn and grow — not achieve phony gains to make themselves or their schools look good.

Lesaux's research focuses on the reading development and the health and well - being of children who are at risk for learning difficulties, including children from language - minority and low socioeconomic backgrounds, and children with language impairments.

In particular, it was the children's bond with the school that needed work; their general attitude to learning was passive, whilst the behaviour of a significant minority was disruptive.

With a focus on increasing access to STEM careers for «girls, underrepresented minorities, and low - income children,» US2020 and Citizen Schools have partnered to provide expanded STEM learning opportunities for students across the country.

In 1998, approximately 1.5 million minority children were identified as having mental retardation, emotional disturbance, or a specific learning disability.

If all three efforts succeed, one outcome is clear: the state and school districts would have new responsibilities aimed at providing students a better learning environment through changes that could hold important benefits for low - income and minority children.

Instead, it is about an important lesson reformers should be learning today from Doug Jones» victory yesterday over the notorious Roy Moore in yesterday's Alabama U.S. Senate special election: The need to rally poor and minority communities in advancing systemic reform to help all children.

In Improving Schooling for Minority Children: A Research Agenda, August and Hakuta (1997) state that one research need is «to learn how to increase the number of teachers skilled in working with English - language learners» (p. 269).

For many poor, language - minority, and dialect - speaking children attending low - performing schools, the odds of learning to read by the end of third grade are far too low.

As civil rights activists learned after the Morgan ruling, reformers must realize that the federal government must play a strong role on behalf of poor and minority children.

It is demeaning, even racist, to assume that minority children can't learn — or can't learn as much — unless they are immersed in a student body in which whites are the majority.

Meanwhile reformers have learned the importance of holding politicians responsible for not living up to their obligations to expand opportunities for children, especially those from poor and minority backgrounds.

But it adds: «In a significant minority of schools, children are not learning enough in the foundation phase.»

The hijacking continued when the second President Bush called another summit that created the «No Child Left Behind,» law which was intended to close the learning gap between whites and poor minorities.

Exclusion factors such as mental retardation, sensory deficits, serious emotional disturbance, language minority children (where lack of proficiency in English accounts for measured achievement deficits), and lack of opportunity to learn should be considered.

According to federally funded research, students who are living in poverty, are learning English as a second language, and are from racial and ethnic minority groups are 250 percent less likely to be identified for, and served in gifted programs, even when they perform at a comparable level to children in the program.

Among his areas of interest and expertise are action - research, minority ethnic achievement and young children's learning, especially their spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.

High Expectations for All students: No idea is more central to success than the rock - solid expectation that all children, not just the fortunate minority, are capable of learning at high levels.

At last, grueling effort has translated into test score gains at a school serving poor, minority students and a continually increasing number of children with learning and emotional disabilities.

Instead of providing all kids with college - oriented learning (as Eliot supported), these educators pushed what would become the comprehensive high school model, with middle - class white kids (along with those few children of émigrés deemed worthy of such curricula) getting what was then considered high - quality learning, while poor and minority kids were relegated to shop classes and less - challenging coursework.

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)

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Your child learns the minority language of Auslan at home, and English in the hearing community.

The association of maternal obesity during gestation and chronic conditions in children is beginning to be explored, 37,38 and previous studies alluded to an increased rate of health problems generally in caregivers of children with disabilities.39, 40 Associations between male sex and poverty and behavior / learning problems are congruent with other studies.41 - 43 The association of minority race / ethnicity with asthma and obesity and the inverse relationship of minority race / ethnicity with other physical conditions and behavior / learning problems are consistent with previous studies.12,43 - 45

The higher odds of prevalence of asthma and obesity among ethnic minority children contributed to these differences, although ethnic minority children were less likely to have reported other physical conditions and behavior / learning problems.

To a large extent, at least in the early years, this means taking on the behaviors and attitudes the majority of the children learned at home — a parents» - group - to - children's - group effect that can be identified as such only by observing the small minority of children who learned something different at home (and controlling for heredity).

In light of evidence that children from low - income and minority backgrounds are more likely to exhibit delays in language and learning at school entry, additional work is needed to understand why these differences exist, and how to best support parents in their provision of positive home environments for their children.