Sentences with phrase «of language minority»

Spanish - speaking students — the largest group of language minority students in Washington state — take fewer advanced courses and earn lower grades in those courses than...

What are the demographic characteristics and academic performance outcomes of language minority and English learner students in California public schools?

This article provides an overview of the demography of language minority children, children from immigrant families, and English language learners — three populations that are related but not synonymous.

General teacher education and development, foundations of education, second language acquisition theory, sociolinguistics, multicultural education, history of language minority students in the U.S. educational system, field supervision of candidates for culturally and linguistically diverse endorsement and MAT degree.

Development of literacy of language minority learners.

Federal, state, and district level English Language Learner program entry and exit requirements: Effects on the education of language minority learners.

Beyond those concerns, we would do well to ensure that students are prepared to understand our neighbors, friends, allies, foes, and those within our own borders who are members of language minority communities.

Not exact matches

Ethnic minorities make up 36 percent of the country, and more than 20 percent of Americans speak a language other than English at home.

The National Household Survey findings on «immigration, place of birth, citizenship, ethnic origin, visible minorities, language and religion,» for instance, are here.

And later: «The language of Latin Mass was only understood by the top - heavy minority of clergy, and those steeped in religious education, rather than the lay majority.»

If the minority obsession for human rights is to enjoy sustained popular support, it must speak the moral language of the American people.

The ironic and indirect ways of affirming and denying — God bless the Czar and keep him far, far away — modes of speaking that are so important for Jewish humanism, are found in Yiddish, a plastic language that hung like a long suspension bridge over the chasm that separated the world of an isolated, vulnerable religious minority from the dangerous Gentile - dominated majority culture.

The language of the right encompasses intolerance and racism, wants us to get back to an earlier time in history, and lays blame for today's problems at the feet of the poor, minorities and the elderly.

The basic purpose, said the attorney general, was «to allow members of applicable language minority groups to be effectively informed of and participate effectively in voting - connected activities» (New York Times, April 22, 1976, p. 25).

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

Some missions to the Indians were conducted, but, partly because of the scattered population and the many tribes and languages, only minorities were won.

As a self - proclaimed persecuted minority, the sexual revolutionaries enjoy the greatest unchecked privilege of our time, that of identity victimhood, with a monopoly on the positive language of love and freedom.

Maternity cards and Early Years cards are available from Dad Info; cards for a range of black and minority ethnic dads (African - Caribbean, Muslim (English - language), West African (French - language), Somali, Bengali) are available from the Fatherhood Institute.

-LSB-...] you're not sure how to find great books in the minority language, ask Leanna of All Done Monkey!

At a rally where he appeared with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Cuomo mixed his stump - speech standbys with sharper language, accusing the six NY GOP representatives of «violating their oath of office to represent the interest of the people of the State of New York.»

Advocates and local elected officials have pushed for a more comprehensive outreach plan by the state to ensure the tens of thousands of residents, many of whom are minorities and speak a language other than English at home, know about the need for testing.

Eric Pickles, local government secretary, comments on multiculturalism in advance of a new counter-extremism strategy: «A few people, a handful of activists, have insisted that it isn't enough simply to celebrate the beliefs of minority communities; they want to disown the traditions and heritage of the majority, including the Christian faith and the English language.

Council Minority Leader Deborah Brown (R - Ward 9) said she had a number of concerns about some of the language in the agreement and looked forward to a May 18 committee meeting where City Comptroller John Tuey is expected to answer questions.

Indeed, it is because of our reputation for research that experts often get asked to contribute to policy discussions — on everything from mental health to European minority languages.

«Ninety three percent of the kids in charter schools are minorities that finally got a chance to succeed, and we shouldn't be kicking them in the butt, pardon my language,» he said.

And that doesn't even begin to capture the huge amounts of dialects (and local languages when there were ethnic minorities) that were spoken (or still are) before countries heavily promoted their official languages.

Legislature Minority Leader Hector Rodriguez, the primary sponsor of the resolution, declined to characterize the measure as creating a sanctuary county, but the proposal — which Rodriguez said was crafted largely from a policy adopted by Tompkins County — mirrors the language offered by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in a report outlining model sanctuary provisions.

As congressional negotiators homed in on a spending deal early this year, Mr. Brown pushed Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, to attach his pension language to the larger budget agreement.

And consider the language of the Minority in Parliament damning the NPP «guru».

Some of New York's top black Democrats were among the dozens who rallied on the streets of Harlem on Monday to show their support for Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins, the state Senate minority leader, and criticize a hedge fund manager who had attacked her using racially inflammatory language.

• protections for racial and language minority groups in the drawing of district lines consistent with the Voting Rights Act, ensuring those protections remain regardless of what happens at the federal level; and

«Grayling targets English language skills of unemployed minorities Main Eric Pickles emerges as a new Tory hero»

The principles of the federal Voting Rights Act (VRA), which are increasingly facing threat of retrogression in the courts and Congress, are added to the state constitution, preserving the rights of language and racial minorities.

«Documentation of endangered minority languages such as Jedek is important, as it provides new insights into human cognition and culture,» says Joanne Yager, doctoral student at Lund University.

First, with many millions using the language in so many places (many of them rarely interacting with native speakers) and with native speakers constituting a minority of those who use it, people are less concerned about whether they sound convincingly American or British, or write with colloquial perfection.

The policy goal of opposing discrimination is slowly climbing the agenda, but up to now, the chief policy aim has been to incorporate immigrant - minorities into the society via access to training and employment while encouraging them to use the local language and to participate more in the local society.

Languages are dying as improved transport and telecommunications bring different peoples into closer contact, and speakers of minority tongues abandon them for the languages of more dominant cultures.

Older age, lower education, psychotic illness, being a visible minority and having a native language other than English or French were associated with poorer cognitive performance; however these indicators could explain only part of the neurocognitive difficulties observed in this study.

«Many of the people hardest hit by dyslexia are minority students and those from low - income families,» Shaywitz said, even though the condition affects all population segments and languages.

Although in most of the participants the left hemisphere was specialized in language processing, a minority had it inverted and the right side was in charge of these functions.

Leiva and Alabau choose words by calculating the probability that a word from the major languages appears in the minority vocabulary by looking at the number of letter changes required to turn one word into another — so «con ``, which occurs in both Italian and Spanish, has a probability of 1, whereas the Italian «nome» has a probability of 0.79 because the Spanish word is «nombre ``.

China has some strong programs when it comes to using the native languages of minority groups for school instruction, according to a report published in 2005 and released online in July by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO.

We have a majority - minority student population, a large group of English - language learners, and almost 60 percent participation in the free or reduced - price lunch program.

And it put a special focus on ensuring that states and schools boost the performance of certain groups of students, such as English - language learners, students in special education, and poor and minority children, whose achievement, on average, trails their peers.

The Word Generation team will continue moving forward, greatly encouraged by the preliminary evidence suggesting the effectiveness of the program, and its particular value for language minority learners.

The formula included weights for housing prices, minority, English - as a second language learners, children with special needs, children who are permitted free school meals, schools located in rural under - privileged areas, rusting economic areas and with high percentages of «working classes».

We fear that putting students with disabilities, English language learners and minority students into one «super subgroup» will mask the individual needs of these distinct student subgroups and will prevent schools from tailoring interventions appropriately.

Sydney H. McKenzie, a lawyer for the department, said the state is negotiating with the language - minority groups and has launched an «across - the - board» review of policies that deal with students having limited proficiency in English.

Nobody who wrote or supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964 thought that the term «minority» included so - called language minorities.

More than half of the language - minority children whose reading abilities are substantially below the national average are not receiving bilingual or English - as - a-second-language instruction, according to a study by the Educational Testing Service.