STUDIES SHOW THAT CHILDREN WHO ATTEND PRESCHOOL OR EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS PERFORM BETTER IN SCHOOL DURING THEIR LATER YEARS, AND THAT’S WHY A GROUP OF VOLUNTEERS IS GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND TO MAKE ...
Helping kids keep up with schoolwork can be a stressful experience for any parent. For new refugee parents, many of whom don't speak English themselves, the task is next to impossible. The problem isn ...
Local NGOs call the issue “niche”. Only 735 out of roughly 3,000 school-aged refugee children are enrolled in accredited ...
International flags flutter from the ceilings of the outdoor hallways at Valencia Newcomer School, where more than 200 children from around the world are learning English skills and American classroom ...
Families in the Miami Valley with a refugee status can send their kids to a preschool specifically geared toward them in the Newcomer classroom at the Montgomery County Educational Services Center.
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - Kids from around the world are finding refuge in Mr. Chi’s class inside Wausau’s Horace Mann Middle School. The students’ first period begins with advisory where Chi goes over ...
The camp's Makani centers provide psychosocial support to refugee children. — -- Drawings of families holding hands under lopsided suns adorn the walls of an informal learning center in Jordan’s ...
Most of the Rohingya children inside the world’s largest refugee camp here have never watched television. Now, with the help of a battery-powered projector, they’re laughing along with Elmo, the ...
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As a university graduate, Korvi Rakshand wanted nothing more than to help break the cycle of poverty in his native Bangladesh by teaching children on the margins ...
SEATTLE — It's always the advice you hear when coaches suggest how to craft the top-tier athletes: "Start 'em young!" But not every family has that privilege. "No way, there's no way I could teach ...
At age 15, Ishak bears the weight of his family’s expectations. He’s overcome racial discrimination and the additional challenges of his refugee status to become a school football star, a straight-A ...
A second-generation Afghan refugee, Jamil ur Rehman was born in Pakistan. As a person with a disability as well as a refugee, he has confronted a series of obstacles in trying to get an education.