Sentences with phrase «of immigrant children»

Her practice focuses on the representation of immigrant children in all aspects of their immigration matters and removal defense.

The following identification, service, and evaluation strategies may assist education professionals who want to meet the educational needs of immigrant children who are gifted.

Furthermore, I knew they would use my «failure» to define their story of all immigrant children.

* 55 % of immigrant children respondents in the sample were separated from their mothers sometime during the course of migration.

She focuses on school achievement and identities of immigrant children, with a particular focus on Asian American communities.

Assigning students to classrooms based on performance and ability gained popularity in the mid-19th century, when public schools began enrolling large numbers of immigrant children with limited preparation or capacity for schooling compared with native children.

MINEOLA, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Federal officials are no longer considering a former defense plant in Bethpage as a relocation site for thousands of immigrant children flooding into the country, according to Long Island officials.

A financially troubled Lutheran church in Commack may host some of the tens of thousands of immigrant children illegally crossing the United States» border with Mexico mainly to reunite with family here.

Robert Crosnoe, University of Texas at Austin, «The Developmental Trajectories of Immigrant Children: Education, Health, Parenting, and School Context»

In press conferences last week in Washington and Los Angeles, participants in the two - year study, conducted by the National Coalition of Advocates for Students, described the educational difficulties of immigrant children as one of the most serious challenges of the day for schools.

We investigated ethnic group differences in the association between social support, perceived discrimination and mental health in one adolescent and one preadolescent sample of immigrant children in Norway.

Vaclav & Lena thrusts the reader into the quirky, somewhat dark lives of immigrant children who dream of escaping reality to join the circus, whereas the characters in Water for Elephants actually do live in the fantasy of the big top.

Kennedy has complained that her city's services have already been overwhelmed by an influx of immigrant children, telling Fox News that «over 1,000 not - native - born children,» primarily Guatemalan, have entered Lynn's school system in the last four years, forcing her to increase school budgets 9.3 percent and to cut other city budgets from 2 percent to 5 percent.

Catholic schools have kept generations of immigrant children in the bosom of the Church while helping to lift them to economic success.

How is the problem of Latin American immigration and the recent wave of immigrant children seen by two spokespersons for the region?

In 2007, 59 percent of parents of immigrant children hailed from Mexico and other Latin American countries.

At the Askwith Forum, «Learning to be a Citizen: Civic Education and Immigration in the U.S.,» on Tuesday, March 14, participants discussed the political socialization of immigrant children, the expansion of opportunities, and how much priority should be put on civic education.

This education was nevertheless in the liberal spirit, as Mirel notes in making an important distinction: the education of immigrant children was in «civic nationalism,» not «ethnic nationalism.»

Yet something there — along with other things of course, such as parent involvement and children's feeling of obligation to hard - working parents — contributes to the common pattern of immigrant children doing better than their native - born classmates.

Though most English Learners, in California and elsewhere, did not receive bilingual education, Prop 227 passed in June 1998 largely on the strength of the allegation that the low achievement and high dropout rates of immigrant children were caused by «costly experimental language programs.»

Carola Suárez - Orozco, Irina Todorova, and Josephine Louie, researchers from the Harvard Immigration Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, also found that 35 % of immigrant children experienced separation from their fathers for more than five years.

Second graders create portraits of immigrant children as they read their stories and consider the upheaval in their lives.

We will not cooperate with his hateful rhetoric and bullying of immigrant children, LGBT students, Muslims and others.

It could have easily become trite and relied on lazy stereotypes of the «Indian experience» in the USA, or of the tropes of what the expectations are on certain kinds of immigrant children.

It is an epic journey, one thousands of immigrant children make each year to find their mothers in the United States.

Professor Steglich most recently published Disparate Outcomes: The Quest for Uniform Treatment of Immigrant Children, with Randi Mandelbaum, FAMILY COURT REVIEW (50 FAM.

This is a pressing issue in host nations, where addressing the needs of a diverse population of immigrant children who differ in acculturation (changes resulting from the meeting of cultures) extends beyond a linguistic issue.

Conclusion: Despite performance in the norm range, on average, still 33 % of immigrant children display deficiencies both in syntactical and semantic capacities in the German language.

In this Research Brief we present evidence on the socio - economic vulnerability of immigrant children and highlight the relative contribution of immigrant background to the risks of falling behind in household income, education, health and life satisfaction.

We are also endeavoring to understand and support the needs of immigrant children, conducting research and developing strategies to serve neurodiverse children and complex learners, cultivating cutting edge methods of research, evaluation and assessment, investigating the challenges facing higher education and more.

Mrs. Janet Capps was the first person to grant me equal opportunity to learn in the United States, and, by doing so, she changed the trajectory of an immigrant child's life.

Abstract: We investigated ethnic group differences in the association between social support, perceived discrimination and mental health in one adolescent and one preadolescent sample of immigrant children in Norway.

The site is a location federal officials have looked at as a potential place to house some of the immigrant children flooding across the border from Central America in recent months.

Faced with growing numbers of immigrant children and more state requirements, the Santa Ana (California) Unified School District is considering implementing a two - year kindergarten program to help children catch up academically and socially.

LULAC believes that universal and quality public education is the foundation for lifelong success, and strongly opposes any measure that denies education as a fundamental right, including that of immigrant children.

Leveraged undergraduate training in pre-K-12 education and ESL to create a positive, safe, and engaging learning environment for a local pre-school with a significant number of immigrant children.

Meeting the Needs of Immigrant Children and Youth in Child Welfare (PDF - 74 KB) Torrico (2010) Children, Youth and Families Practice Update Explains the challenges immigrant families face, including those involved in child welfare agencies, and presents practice strategies for the child welfare workers who assist them.

In Rhode Island, 21 % of immigrant children were born in Central or South America, and 25 % were born in the Caribbean.