Sentences with phrase «as middle class parents»

A recent study of the United Kingdom found that poor parents were equally engaged with their children as middle class parents, despite fewer material resources.

Lets refer to the Conservative idea as «reintroducing secondary modern schools» not» reintroducing grammar schools» as this would be the reality of selection for most of our children It would also result in an expansion of the independent sector as middle class parents paid to keep their children out of secondary modern schools.

The scheme's critics argued that Specialist Schools encouraged segregation in education, insofar as the middle class parents who were long best placed to ensure favourable outcomes from school admissions regimes of grammar schools would continue to be able to get their children into the better schools, at the expense of those from poorer and socially excluded backgrounds.

Not exact matches

For the first time in the United States, middle class, Caucasian children may not live as long as their parents.

Otherwise competent journalistic reports on research findings about male homosexuality, such as Peter and Barbara Wyden's Growing Up Straight (Stein & Day, 1968), confound the picture for the public by appealing to the fears of middle - class parents; further, they profess (without foundation) to show that parents can educate their children away from the possibility of becoming homosexual.

One might think that our white, upper - middle - class, nothing - but - the - best youngsters would respond positively to such concepts as «fairness» and «egalitarianism» — but apparently the best lesson we parents taught them was how to say No.

Young people who, as adults, merely retain the same level of upper - middle - class success that their parents have can regard themselves as standing still or coasting on the momentum acquired by their forebears.

As recently as the 1950s the parents of today's middle - class baby boomers had the benefit of welfare supports like the GI Bill, government - protected union activity, and various checks on corporate greed as they provided a stable economic foundation for the familAs recently as the 1950s the parents of today's middle - class baby boomers had the benefit of welfare supports like the GI Bill, government - protected union activity, and various checks on corporate greed as they provided a stable economic foundation for the familas the 1950s the parents of today's middle - class baby boomers had the benefit of welfare supports like the GI Bill, government - protected union activity, and various checks on corporate greed as they provided a stable economic foundation for the familas they provided a stable economic foundation for the family.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

I associated Ice Cube with a horrifyingly ridiculous speech I heard in a classroom by some handsome full - of - himself black 12th - grader, about how Ice Cube was his hero because he had inspired him to avoid crack and gangs, as if it were some heroic thing for this guy who apparently had pretty middle - class parents to avoid falling into those, and as if Ice Cube had not in fact glamorized the gang life, overt misogyny, etc..

As part of her research, Brown interviewed 140 mostly white, middle - class mothers in the Minneapolis area about their cultural ideas of mothering, how they cope with their «life load,» and how they really parent.

Hmmm... I think by «American parenting», they might mean American upper - middle - class - and - probably - white - and urban - as - well, parenting.

What Geoff says, and as I write in book, is that over the last 20, 25 years in the United States, there's been this big revolution in what we think in middle - class communities about parenting, that there's just this emphasis on the zero - to - three years that didn't used to exist before, and that information didn't really penetrate communities like Harlem.

Tough shows even the most naïve reader how difficult it is to grapple with the question of how to take an entire community of mostly disadvantaged children and mostly undereducated parents without financial resources and transform them — or at least the children as they grow — into fully functioning members of the middle class.

In my own neighborhood, which I would describe as middle class, there are quite a few kids whose parents go to work early and leave the it up to the kids to get themselves up, dressed, and onto the bus.

This was especially important since my own parents had brought me and my siblings up in India in the late 1970s and» 80's when formula and bottle - feeding were marketed as the pathways to «better nutrition» and «women's empowerment» for middle - class families.

It seems to me that a lot of the excitement around noncognitive skills comes from middle class and upper - middle class parents who want to know how their children can be as successful as possible in an ever more competitive world.

Media and Middle Class Moms: Images and Realities of Work and Family by Lara J. Descartes and Conrad Kottak raises questions about the extent to which parents, as well as their parenting style, are affected by the media.

With classes costing # 300 a course, the NCT's services are not reaching many parents - to - be and Nick Wilkie is reported as saying that the service is too middle class and must do more to attract parents from disadvantaged backgrounds.

These include Whisconier Middle and Brookfield High School Support Services Staff, as well as the Prince of Peace Preschool Staff in Brookfield, while offering parenting classes in Brookfield and surrounding towns.

Gay fathers tend to be economically well - off, one means by which their children may garner social advantages relative to other children, while additional research has shown that children of gay fathers did not report differences in sex - typed behaviour compared with parents of other family configurations.58 A large literature shows that parents tend to transmit values to their children along socioeconomic status lines, with middle class parents typically imparting different values from parents in lower socioeconomic strata.59, 60 However, little of this work has examined fathers in particular, as distinct from mothers.

It is tax free as an incentive for middle - class parents to save early and for a long time.

As an adult I was pretty shocked to learn that many black parents (even middle - class suburban black parents) give their teenagers very explicit «how not to get shot by police during a traffic stop» instructions.

Then the unions fed the paranoid «opt out» movement, with hundreds of thousands of parents (mostly middle - class Long Islanders) refusing to let their kids take the state exams that measure student achievement — and Cuomo waved the white flag on using exams as part of teacher evaluations.

He grew up in Park Slope as the son of middle class Jewish parents — his father a lawyer and mother a public school teacher.

As evidence of peer influence, she also notes that siblings grow up to be very different adults; that adopted children are more like their biological parents than their adopted parents in terms of such traits as criminality; and that adolescents from poor neighborhoods are more likely to be delinquents than adolescents from middle - class neighborhoods, whereas being from a broken home has no effect on delinquencAs evidence of peer influence, she also notes that siblings grow up to be very different adults; that adopted children are more like their biological parents than their adopted parents in terms of such traits as criminality; and that adolescents from poor neighborhoods are more likely to be delinquents than adolescents from middle - class neighborhoods, whereas being from a broken home has no effect on delinquencas criminality; and that adolescents from poor neighborhoods are more likely to be delinquents than adolescents from middle - class neighborhoods, whereas being from a broken home has no effect on delinquency.

Middle - and upper - middle class people, as a result, express high expectations for their marriages, centering on self - fulfillment, deeply engaged parenting by both parents, and psycho - emotional awarMiddle - and upper - middle class people, as a result, express high expectations for their marriages, centering on self - fulfillment, deeply engaged parenting by both parents, and psycho - emotional awarmiddle class people, as a result, express high expectations for their marriages, centering on self - fulfillment, deeply engaged parenting by both parents, and psycho - emotional awareness.

New Ph.D. researchers with «stronger academic ability,» as indicated by having received university support in the form of a fellowship or assistantship or by having at least one parent with a college degree (which, especially in poor or middle - income countries, places the family among an educated class that is much smaller than in a rich country) are likelier to stay than those who lack these presumed correlates of academic strength.

- Living in the middle - class area was associated with a 69 percent increased risk for nearsightedness, even after adjusting for other risk factors, such as time spent reading, outdoor activity and whether the student's parents wore glasses.

Review I have seen this movie twice, probably the third romantic movie that compelled me to do that, and the reasons are quite simple: It's probably impossible that anyone can't relate to young Josh Hutcherson's character, an 11 year old with a normal middle class life and problems (parents initiating divorce); that its surprise by the rediscovery of a young classmate (Charley Ray) initially as an unexpected friend and later as something else... The well crafted work of director Mark Levin is based on the mutual discovery of all these feelings (mostly new and uncontrolled) that evolved in Josh's character and in another particular viewer: you.

The subject — a disastrous honeymoon on the Dorset coast in 1962 — can only be explained by digging into the backgrounds of Florence (Saoirse Ronan), a bright, rebellious violinist from upper - middle - class parents (Samuel West, Emily Watson), and Edward (Billy Howle), an earnest history graduate snootily regarded by his in - laws as a country bumpkin.

But first, he rewinds to how Petit got started as a multitalented street performer, disappointing his middle - class parents and making his way from riding a unicycle and juggling to evincing preternatural balance and grace as an aerialist.

The entire cast also deliver excellent performances; the always reliable Catherine Keener and Bradley Whitford capture the requisite creepiness as the white, middle - class parents and Alison Williams has an effective screen presence that, on many occasions, reminded me of a younger Jennifer Connelly.

Backed by BBC Films, the picture stars Tilda Swinton and John C Reilly as middle - class parents toiling to understand the actions of their sociopathic teenaged son.

Tracy Letts and Laurie Metcalf are vividly understated as Lady Bird's parents, middle - middle - class people surrounded by upper - middle - class neighbours.

These parents, probably the majority of home schoolers, are mainly middle - class parents who believe in prolonged intimate contact between family and child, but who do not mean to impede their children's access to higher education and jobs or their ability to act as good citizens.

Since he founded the Harlem Children's Zone as a one - block experiment in 1997, he has expanded it to include parenting classes (Baby College and Three - Year - Old Journey), a full - day preschool (Harlem Gems), two elementary schools (Promise Academy I and II), and a middle school (Promise Academy).

These intangible middle class advantages include such things as a computer with internet access at home, a quiet place to study and complete homework, working parent (s) above the poverty line, no pressure to get a low - level job in high school to help pay the rent or support the family, and no fear of the streets upon which they live.

Many charters in the state provide options that appeal to middle - class parents, such as distinctive instructional designs like Montessori and Core Knowledge.

Finally, viewed as a community asset, having an entire school of this sort to show parents, colleges, employers, firms looking to relocate, real estate agents, and others can bring a kind of élan or appeal to a place that may also help with economic development, the retention of middle - class families, and more.

After interviewing more than 50 of these gentrifiers about their school - choice process, I concluded that it is the substantive differences in parenting styles between the white, upper - middle - class parents and the nonwhite, less - affluent parents that are hindering school integration, as these parenting styles directly affect school culture and expectations.

The teachers in predominantly poor, minority schools, who are reportedly mostly black and have adopted the more teacher - centered, authoritarian style of instruction that they view as appropriate for their students, are turning off white, upper - middle - class parents who want school climates similar to their own progressive homes, where problems are discussed.

What's happening here raises a compelling question: could an influx of middle - class parents into charter schools emerge as a political game changer?

As researchers have documented (see «U.S. Students from Educated Families Lag in International Tests,» features, Fall 2014), even middle - class and suburban parents have reason to find fault with their schools.

Many policymakers and pundits view the opt - out phenomenon as a fringe movement and have characterized test - refusing parents as uninformed middle - class suburbanites who are pawns of the teachers union and who are undermining accountability and the measurement of the achievement gap.

«When middle - class parents are speaking with young children, they don't really issue directives so much as they engage the child in a conversation, reasoning things through with them,» says Anna Egalite, an education professor at North Carolina State University.

(The middle schools in these neighborhoods, by the way, have barely gentrified at all, as middle - class parents wait for someone else to go first.)

The elimination of these deductions, along with new incentives for wealthier parents to consider private schools, could be detrimental to the public schooling system as it could trigger the flight of wealth and upper - middle class families.

Limiting the access of middle class families to wide - ranging school choices (and even more - expansive Parent Power) just because they have the perceived financial means to buy homes and send kids to private schools is just as intellectually and morally indefensible as limiting the choices of the poor.

«As a governor of a maintained school in a deprived community... we were always at a disadvantage to the school on the other side of town with lots of middle - class parents who raised lots of extra cash for their school.»