Sentences with phrase «whose low skill»

Film has the potential to open doors to students whose low skill levels have previously restricted them from aspects of the English curriculum.

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The U.S. should listen to the conservative American Enterprise Institute, whose 2013 study «Filling the Gap» argues in favor of the U.S. allowing more «low - skilled» immigrants to come here legally.
Ford doubted the trend would create massive unemployment, but it would rather increase disparity in wages between low - skilled workers whose jobs are threatened and top management who are generally safe.
Jenny serves as the Board Chair of the Chinese - American Planning Council (CPC) whose mission is to serve the Chinese - American, immigrant and low - income communities in New York City by providing services, skills and resources towards economic self - sufficiency.
A strength of NCLB is that it draws attention to the academic skills of children from low - income families, children of color, children whose first language is not English, and children with disabilities — groups that historically have not been well served by American schools.
Such programs are no longer appropriate or compatible with current skills expectations: automotive repair courses in high school where practice continued on components that had been replaced by sophisticated computers in current cars; cosmetology courses whose graduates didn't have the math skills to pass licensing requirements for hairdressers and ended up as hair shampooers; distributive education courses that taught «selling» but not the computer, computation, and communication skills needed for any but the lowest - level sales jobs.
Deliberately developing these skills can also improve outcomes for low - income children, whose ability to access EF skills may be compromised by the chronic stressors associated with living in poverty.
«Within the most challenging schools there are educators whose love for what they do can be infectious because they see value of impacting the lives of children,» says Nadia Lopez (@TheLopezEffect) whose school is in one of New York's low income neighborhoods where recruiting and keeping skilled teachers is very difficult.
«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.
Disadvantaged children tend to fall behind before their second birthday: Children whose families lack economic and educational resources — those who are in the lowest socio - economic group, who live in poverty, whose parents have less education, or whose mothers are not employed — tend to lag behind their peers who have more of these resources in developing language skills, early math, and social - emotional indicators by age 2.
The increased likelihood of social, emotional and behavioural difficulties for children whose mother had low parenting skills was particularly strong.
Results indicate children whose families participated in the FAST program showed higher levels of academic performance, social skills, and lower levels of aggressive behaviors than those in the FAME program.
Target Population: Parents with learning differences whose children are at risk of being neglected due to parenting skill deficiencies including parents who learn best with a step - by - step approach, such parents with learning difficulties related to intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities, low literacy, and acquired brain injury.
Kids whose ToP scores were lowest at the outset showed the greatest improvement — indicating that kids who struggle the most with social skills may respond extremely well to play therapy.
In turn, children, two years after their mothers participated in the program, displayed lower levels of aggressive behaviour as well as better cognitive skills than those whose mothers had not undergone such cognitive retraining.17, 18,19 These findings, then, clearly underline the important role played by parental beliefs in the child - rearing process.
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