Sentences with phrase «whose home languages»

Standard English Learners (SELs) are students for whom Standard English is not native, whose home languages differ in structure and form from the language of school [i.e. standard American or academic English].

Students whose home language is a language other than English.

The data, collected through the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) 2009, included 825 children — whose home language was English or Spanish — at 59 Head Start programs across the country.

Students in rural or remote areas and those whose home language is not English also perform worse.

In EdSpeak: A Glossary of Education Terms, Phrases, Buzzwords, and Jargon, Diane Ravitch defines an English language learner (ELL) as «A student whose home language is not English and who has not yet acquired proficiency in English.»

State officials appear on track for developing a new test by 2015 - 16 for identifying students whose home language is not English and who need help improving their language skills.

One great way to look at the law would be through the eyes of a kid or family whose home language isn't English.

According to the EdSource glossary, English learners are «students whose home language is not English and who qualify for extra help», which is a specific group of K - 12 students.

establishing program requirements and quality standards that specifically address the needs and interests of families whose home language is not English;

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Get a Job (Blu - ray + Ultraviolet) Details: 2016, Lionsgate Home Entertainment Rated: R, crude and sexual content, nudity, language, drug use The lowdown: Miles Teller and Anna Kendrick star in this comedy about a pair of millennials whose goal is to become a power couple.

B - The Paperboy Rated R for strong sexual content, violence and language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Precious director Lee Daniels chose for his follow - up this over-the-top adaptation of the Peter Dexter novel about a young man (Zac Efron) whose brother (Matthew McConaughey) has come back to his home town to investigate a case involving a death row inmate (John Cusack) with the help of the accused's fiancé (Nicole Kidman).

In the Fade Details: 2017, Magnolia Home Entertainment Rated: R, disturbing images, drug use, languages, sexual references The lowdown: This Golden Globe - winner for best foreign language film stars Diane Kruger as a woman whose life is upended after her husband and young son are killed in a bomb attack.

Of Unknown Origin (Blu - ray) Details: 1983, Scream Factory Rated: R, violence, language The lowdown: Peter Weller stars in this thriller about a successful Wall Street executive whose New York brownstone becomes a battlefield when he finds himself under siege by a determined group of home intruders — namely some very pesky rats.

Beatriz at Dinner Rated R for language and a scene of violence Rotten Tomatoes Score: 78 % Salma Hayek is a masseuse whose car breaks down at her client's home, where she is invited to a big dinner with the very Trump - like John Lithgow, a greedy real estate developer with a very differing political, ethical and moral point of view from her own.

Small - group instruction, offering a chance for deeper discussion and usage of vocabulary, is where educators can also provude support with basic vocabulary words, such as household items and terms for family members — words whose meanings EL students already know in their home language, but which they need to label in English.

We further believe that while education systems should be attuned to the needs of all students, including high - performing students and students raised in middle - and upper - income homes, policy makers must be particularly sensitive to the needs of student groups whose choices have historically been limited by law or by circumstance, including students of color, students raised in low - income homes, students with English language needs, and students with disabilities.

Linda Darling - Hammond and colleagues have cautioned that statistical models can not fully adjust for teachers who have a disproportionate number of students with greater challenges, or whose scores on traditional tests may not accurately reflect their learning, such as special education students; English language learners; and those affected by poor attendance, homelessness, or severe problems at home.

However, students are not randomly assigned to teachers — and statistical models can not fully adjust for the fact that some teachers will have a disproportionate number of students who have greater challenges (students with poor attendance, who are homeless, who have severe problems at home, etc.) and those whose scores on traditional tests may not accurately reflect their learning (e.g. those who have special education needs or who are new English language learners).

«Children from homes that are considered impoverished with low educational backgrounds tend to have vocabulary and oral language skills significantly less than a child whose family is not living in poverty,» Bailey said.

With acute sensory language, Mayes relishes the sweetness of the South, the smells and tastes at her family table, the fragrance of her hometown trees, and writes an unforgettable story of a girl whose perspicacity and dawning self - knowledge lead her out of the South and into the rest of the world, and then to a profound return home.

Elizabeth Murray, a New York painter who reshaped Modernist abstraction into a high - spirited, cartoon - based, language of form whose subjects included domestic life, relationships and the nature of painting itself, died yesterday at her home in upstate New York.

Roberta Smith writes in the NYTimes: «Elizabeth Murray, a New York painter who reshaped Modernist abstraction into a high - spirited, cartoon - based, language of form whose subjects included domestic life, relationships and the nature of painting itself, died yesterday at her home in upstate New York.

So there I am, six thousand miles away from home in a foreign country (whose language I don't speak) covering a trade show by myself, and I realize the power brick on my XPS 13 is busted.

For one friend whose husband's love language is words of affirmation, leaving a little affectionate note for her husband when he comes home is one way she assures that he feels loved.

In Denver, low - resource families who received home visiting showed modest benefits in children's language and cognitive development.102 In Elmira, only the intervention children whose mothers smoked cigarettes before the experiment experienced cognitive benefits.103 In Memphis, children of mothers with low psychological resources104 in the intervention group had higher grades and achievement test scores at age nine than their counterparts in the control group.105 Early Head Start also identified small, positive effects on children's cognitive abilities, though the change was for the program as a whole and not specific to home - visited families.106 Similarly, IHDP identified large cognitive effects at twenty - four and thirty - six months, but not at twelve months, so the effects can not be attributed solely to home - visiting services.107

See the complete list of honorees The success of this home visiting program depends on the partnering community - based organizations, whose staff members conduct the home visits, bringing their community - specific cultural and language expertise.

Similarly, Jackson and Schemes11 found that preschool children whose mothers were more warm and supportive and provided cognitive stimulation at home had better language abilities as rated by their school teachers.

«This service not only helps professionals educate and protect Filipino - Canadian consumers, it also personalizes and enriches the experience of buying a new home for consumers whose first language is Tagalog.»

Buyers whose primary language in the home is not English are more likely to use open houses — 47 percent of buyers whose primary language is English use open houses, compared to 65 percent who use a language other than English in the home.