Sentences with phrase «non-english language backgrounds»

Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools serves a diverse student population of over 83,000, 72 percent of which are economically disadvantaged and approximately 20 percent coming from non-English language backgrounds.

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.

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Students from non-English backgrounds are given special coaching in the English language, something that has helped me very much.

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.