Sentences with phrase «poor quality language»

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«It is regrettable that our country has been maintaining poor scholarship on the language due to decline in the quality of the English spoken and written by Nigerians», he lamented.

Earlier, the Acting Vice-Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Professor Anthony Elujoba, who declared the conference opened, however expressed worry over what he described as poor report on the quality of standard English language spoken and written in the country.

She suspects it is because those living in poor families today have «poor health, limited access to home environments with rich language and experiences, low birth weight, limited access to high - quality pre-school opportunities, less participation in many activities in the summer and after school that middle class families take for granted, and more movement in and out of schools because of the way that the housing market operates.»

These include poor - quality content standards with unclear language, poor - quality and poorly aligned assessments, flawed school accountability metrics, and inadequate supporting materials, including textbooks and professional development.

Back in 2006, when the California Legislature was wrangling over AB 32, then - Assemblywoman Fran Pavley added language that would force regulators to pay attention to those parts of the state suffering from especially poor air quality.

The Applicants argued that École Rose ‑ des ‑ vents was overcrowded and not as easily accessible as English ‑ language schools in the area and that its facilities were of poor quality.

The first 5 years of life are critical for the development of language and cognitive skills.1 By kindergarten entry, steep social gradients in reading and math ability, with successively poorer outcomes for children in families of lower social class, are already apparent.2 — 4 Early cognitive ability is, in turn, predictive of later school performance, educational attainment, and health in adulthood5 — 7 and may serve as a marker for the quality of early brain development and a mechanism for the transmission of future health inequalities.8 Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.9, 10