Not exact matches
NYCLU announced a settlement with Utica City
schools ensuring
refugee children receive the same educational opportunities as their peers, by guaranteeing them the right to attend public
school past the
age of 21.
Compelling documentary focuses
of elementary
school age refugee children being taught in Holland
Deema Jarrar, an education specialist in Jordan, agreed, and used an example from her experience — the massive influx
of Syrian
refugees into Jordan, including 180,000
school -
age children —
of how this would work.
Sarah Dryden - Peterson, an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate
School of Education, found that
refugee children — many
of them English - language learners — spend a «disproportionate amount
of their time learning languages,» which can contribute to falling behind in
age - appropriate academic content.»
Almost half
of these
refugees are
school -
aged children (UNHCR, 2015).
Target group: The Rainbow Program is designed to provide support to
refugee children aged 9 - 12 years who attend English Language
Schools and Centres, or mainstream schools with a significant enrolment of new arrival families, as well as supporting their fa
Schools and Centres, or mainstream
schools with a significant enrolment of new arrival families, as well as supporting their fa
schools with a significant enrolment
of new arrival families, as well as supporting their families.