Sentences with phrase «non-english home languages»

Bridgeport School System is dealing with student who have 73 different non-English home languages *** Achievement First — Bridgeport First which deals with students from 2 different non-English home languages.

Not exact matches

Our results suggest that children who speak primarily a non-English language at home recruited executive functions to support their reading comprehension despite of their lower English vocabulary scores.

The Milner School, where more than 40 percent of its students go home to households that don't use English as their primary language, will be turned over to a charter school company that has no non-English speaking students and absolutely no history, what so ever, in running English as a Second Language or English Language Learner programs.

Poorer students, non-English speaking students, students who go home to a household where English is not the primary language and students with special education needs show up far less often in charter schools.

Since poverty and language barriers are obviously factors as to who approaches the lottery process and who does not, it is not surprising that the «open enrollment process» ends up with fewer poor students, fewer non-English language students and fewer students who go home to households in which English is not the primary language.

However, equally true is that these third and fourth grade non-English speaking or non-English proficient students being taught science and math in English and then tested in English — despite a significant number who don't speak English are very unlikely to be getting help with their English language homework in science and mathematics when they live in homes that don't use English.

In Achievement First's other New Haven charter school, Elm City College Preparatory, even fewer, 8.8 % of students return to non-English speaking homes (3 languages)

At the same time, Achievement First» sHarford Academyhas only 4.8 % of its students going home to non-English speaking households and in their case there are 4 different home languages.

Amistad Academy has only 11.8 % of its students going home to non-English households (with a total of 3 different languages).

In a city in which over 40 percent of students go home to households that don't speak English as their primary language and students come to school speaking 70 different languages, Achievement First reports that less than 5 percent of its students go home to non-English speaking households and students come from backgrounds speaking only 4 different languages.

North Star [one of the large Newark charter networks] serves effectively no children with limited English language proficiency, in part because North Star caters to a predominantly black student population from Newark's black neighborhoods, which remain geographically segregated from the city's Hispanic and other ethnic neighborhoods and are home to non-English speaking families.

In her commentary piece, Wendy Lecker reminded readers that as part of Malloy's education reform effort, Hartford's Milner School, a school where 40 percent of the students go home to households where English is not the primary language, was given to a nearby charter school management organization Family Urban Schools of Excellence (FUSE), despite the fact that FUSE has never had a non-English speaking student attend their Jumoke Academy schools.

Jumoke was given the management contract to run Milner despite the fact that approximately 40 percent of Milner's students faced English language barriers or went home to households that didn't use English as their primary language AND JUMOKE HAD N'T HAD A NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING STUDENT IN ITS SIX - YEAR HISTORY.

In California — which has the nation's highest rate of students who speak a non-English language at home — fewer than 5 percent of public schools now offer multilingual programs.

These included characteristics on multiple levels of the child's biopsychosocial context: (1) child factors: race / ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic, and Asian / Pacific Islander / Alaska Native), age, gender, 9 - month Bayley Mental and Motor scores, birth weight (normal, moderately low, or very low), parent - rated child health (fair / poor vs good / very good / excellent), and hours per week in child care; (2) parent factors: maternal age, paternal age, SES (an ECLS - B — derived variable that includes maternal and paternal education, employment status, and income), maternal marital status (married, never married, separated / divorced / widowed), maternal general health (fair / poor versus good / very good / excellent), maternal depression (assessed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale at 9 months and the World Mental Health Composite International Diagnostic Interview at 2 years), prenatal use of tobacco and alcohol (any vs none), and violence against the mother; (3) household factors: single - parent household, number of siblings (0, 1, 2, or 3 +), language spoken at home (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) schome (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) schome (English vs non-English), neighborhood good for raising kids (excellent / very good, good, or fair / poor), household urbanicity (urban city, urban county, or rural), and modified Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) scHome Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) scHome Observation for Measurement of the Environment — Short Form (HOME - SF) scHOME - SF) scHOME - SF) score.

Adjustments were made for the year in which the reading and writing tests were taken and for child language background, which was self - reported at the time of testing, indicating English or non-English language background at home.