Sentences with phrase «where immigrant populations»

She cited the example of Finland, where the immigrant population's needs are more successfully addressed, where one out of seven teachers is an intervention teacher, catching up those students who are falling behind, and where achievement outcomes are more important than how much time is spent in school.

Not exact matches

I would imagine in urban areas like Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal, which have significant populations of recent immigrants, there's probably a significant subset of people who fled from countries where governments do all sorts of nasty things with the information they collect about their citizens and who aren't all that keen to provide such information here (you might say, «sure, but Canada's not Iran», to which the answer would be «exactly»).

This dot - density model of the immigrant population in the U.S. displays where immigrants are living across America.

Look at the anger in the Southwest, where Spanish - speaking immigrants, legal and illegal, threaten to overwhelm the Anglo population (who, as I recall, similarly overwhelmed the Native Americans.)

It is known that people tend to overestimate the share of immigrants (for instance Ipsos 2014 report shows that British respondents think that 31 per cent of population consists of foreign - born respondents, where the figure is closer to 13 per cent according to 2011 Census); here we also show that people's estimations of levels of immigration do not correspond to actual change in their local areas, it is the perception that seems to be linked with anti-immigration vote.

«Right now, this district the only place left in Manhattan where you still have a huge immigrant and working class population.

To help our new neighbors achieve their full promise, we created the New Americans Advisory Committee to more fully integrate our immigrant population into Erie County life; thereby strengthening the fabric of the communities where they reside.

«If we are seeing this amount of variation in Texas, imagine what we would see in a state where the population is newer and educators have less experience serving immigrants and English learners,» said Madeline Mavrogordato, assistant professor of K - 12 educational administration and lead author.

Pennsylvania, where my mom's side, has a large population of Italian immigrants... [Read more...]

Minus a well - received excursion in the field of «adult» puppet shows (Greg the Bunny, 2002 and 2005), Sean Baker's work was centred on marginalised populations in the New York / New Jersey area (where he was born): disenfranchised suburban youth in Four Letter Words (2000), illegal Chinese immigrants (Take Out, 2004, co-directed with Shih - Ching Tsou) and African street hustlers (Prince of Broadway, 2008).

Ernest Borgnine plays Joe as a dedicated officer determined to win over the largely Sicilian immigrant population of his neighborhood, a group that brought its mistrust of the police with them from the old country, where police corruption was rampant.

Seattle's immigrant populations often settle in the southeastern part of the city where the school is located.

It cited the US as an example where 21 per cent of all students have an immigrant background, while those schools in disadvantaged areas have 40 per cent of its student population from immigrant backgrounds.

The SIFE population presents a range of special challenges to U.S. education systems, especially at the high school level where the overall dropout rate of immigrant teens is very high (Morse, 2005; Osterling, 2001).

I also grew up in a poor valley region in California where we have a lot agriculture and huge Hmong immigrant population so I went to school with a lot of Hmong people (little known by Americans - as there are mostly Chinese, Thai, Korean people in the bigger cities) and got to go to a few food / culture festivals and see their beautiful embroidery -

This dot - density model of the immigrant population in the U.S. displays where immigrants are living across America.

But in Queens, where 165 different languages are spoken, Ms. Raicovich seems to be charting her own community - focused path, with an emphasis on making the museum a safe haven for the borough's large immigrant population.

New York City, where Guyanese immigrants are the 5th largest foreign - born population, is affectionately known as «Little Guyana» home to the most significant Guyanese community in the diaspora.

It would be cool to see a wide collection of maps covering many different issues, not just climate and food production, but, for instance, poverty and wealth, arms production and war, clothing production and leisure time, education levels, consumption, production, health, population growth and decline, movement of immigrants, human rights, animal populations, housing ownership, housing starts, anything basically which can be measured in a visual map... not just for the US but as global maps, collected on pages where you could drag them around to sit on top of each other and try and make sense of the various impacts...

They are forced to innovate, and some of those new skills may allow them to exploit resources not being used where the central population lives, so the central population density can actually increase somewhat when the immigrants arrive.

The reason for Berkeley's administration to embrace a new method of funding is Donald Trump's reluctance to finance housing and support services in sanctuary cities like Berkeley, where the homeless population is growing as the city follows the policy of vast support of illegal immigrants, that includes prohibiting police or city employees from questioning people about their immigration status and refusing requests by federal immigration authorities to detain people.