Sentences with phrase «minority students with learning disabilities»

She is interested in expanding literacy practices for language minority students with learning disabilities.

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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.

Schools must report «adequate yearly progress» for groups that tend to struggle: racial and ethnic minorities, low - income students, English language learners, and those with learning disabilities.

Nevertheless, these problems are occurring in many places — unintended effects of policies that have aimed to provide more useful information to educators, families, students, and policymakers and to ensure attention to the learning progress of low - income and minority students, English learners, students with disabilities, and members of other groups that have been traditionally underserved,» the statement read.

Nevertheless, these problems are occurring in many places — unintended effects of policies that have aimed to provide more useful information to educators, families, students, and policymakers and to ensure attention to the learning progress of low - income and minority students, English learners, students with disabilities, and members of other groups that have been traditionally underserved.

The federal one looks at the performance of certain «subgroups» of kids: minorities, poor students, youngsters with disabilities and those still learning English.

And as for identification, a properly trained gifted coordinator would be well versed in using multiple criteria to identify all gifted students in an urban setting, whether minority, poor, under - performing or GTLD (gifted with learning disabilities).

So we'll continue to get information on how student sub-groups — such as minority populations, dual language learners, and students with learning disabilities — are performing, but we aren't tying those tests to harsh consequences for schools and teachers.

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.

«That helps to ensure that all students are held to the same high standard and that schools are making progress toward closing achievement and opportunity gaps, which is especially important for students living in poverty, racial and ethnic minorities, those with disabilities, those still learning English and other historically underserved groups,» Nolt added.

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