Many Myanmar Learning Center students have gone on to college, often with scholarships from the center, or become naturalized citizens.
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Christmas came early — Wednesday morning, to be exact — for a group of refugees at Springfield's Stalnaker Boys and Girls Club.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
This weekend marks the unofficial end of summer, which means that for many, next week is the official start of the school year. So we thought we'd spend a few minutes talking about issues in education ...
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 ...