Sentences with phrase «class background»

When successful people from working class backgrounds find themselves in the country - club atmosphere of a corporate culture they know they are in foreign territory.

The reality is that most of us were well - behaved students from a middle class background who found learning interesting enough that we pursued it for a lifelong career.

Too many teachers think that ignoring the racial identity and social class backgrounds of their students is the best way to show that they are concerned about all of their students equally.

«It shows the prime minister comes from a ruling class background who doesn't understand the sacrifices that working class people had to make,» he claimed.

We are also very excited that this educational platform is lead by women, and more than that, women with diverse economic and social class backgrounds.

Experience with voucher programs suggests that students with middle and upper class backgrounds are more likely to benefit from these programs than those who live in poverty.

He is a rough fellow from a working class background while she seems more educated, refined and emotional.

Those in opposition to free community college argue that beneficiaries end up coming from upper - middle class backgrounds rather than low - income households.

Critical and resistance theorists propose that race and class backgrounds influence everyday forms of student resistance in schools.

What seems to have been just as much of a factor is that many of these girls came from working class backgrounds.

Children from poor backgrounds and ordinary middle class backgrounds should have the same opportunity to receive an elite education too, assuming they can cope with the standards required.

Most people who choose to become teachers are from middle - class backgrounds who often put themselves through college or work two to three jobs to earn a college degree.

If Mirren often plays on her Russian heritage in interviews, and draws on her British working class background in other contexts — in what has become a polarised form of role play to manipulate the media's perception of her — then the images used in this exhibition represent her corresponding parts for film and television that show issues of domination, subjugation and control, such as in The Queen, Caligula and Prime Suspect.

The American system of education is a lot different to ours so experiences are not directly transferable, but I was a high school drop out from a working class background at a time when that was not that unusual.

Another new study by Sussex researchers shows that children are being placed in ability groups according to social class, with pupils from middle - class backgrounds more likely to be assigned to higher sets, irrespective of their prior attainment.

Men and women from lower - class backgrounds with talent — Brand is one of them — do get ahead, but there hasn't been a general lifting of class barriers since the first two or three decades after the last world war.

But although having a middle class background makes it more likely that someone had gone to university, Dr Reeves's findings showed that they were no more likely to take part in arts after graduating than were working class students.

She comes from a working class background like I do and we wanted Mildred to be from that world.

Now, as dean of admissions at the college, Fitzsimmons makes Harvard possible for other young people, including thousands from working - class backgrounds similar to his.

We need to have people from working class background getting to Parliament, speaking in those ways, with those concerns in mind.

The Offscreen Education Programme takes small groups of British schoolkids from working - class backgrounds on international expeditions most social studies teachers only dream about.

For those who keep such scores, the House of Lords has a higher proportion of women, a higher proportion of people from ethnic minorities, a broader range of ethnic minorities, and far more people from working - class backgrounds generally and the trade union movement in particular, than can be found down the corridor.

Browning, a longtime Working Families Party member from Shirley who registered as a Democrat in May, said her working - class background gives her an advantage over Zeldin and others seeking the Democratic nomination in the 1st Congressional District.

«One thing I think as someone coming from my working class background always got my gut about the Labour party is they're prepared to abandon people on large estates, happy to see them on a life of dole, happy to see them getting a substandard education.

His supporters cut across class backgrounds and, so too, do his detractors.

The notion that you have to be from an upper class Cambridge public school to get into the commons is nonsense - maybe in the Tory party, but how do you explain the vast majority of people from working and lower middle class backgrounds such as John Prescott?

After accounting for the influence of family class background by statistical analysis, he found that those with a degree were around four times more likely to take part in painting and photography than those with no educational qualification, five times more likely to be involved in dance and in crafts, and four times more likely to play a musical instrument.

Later, on a trip to a provincial art festival, Isabelle meets Sylvain (Paul Blain), whose working - class background dismays one of her snooty art - world guy friends, who no doubt thinks Isabelle would be happier with him.

Synopsis: A college student, Annie Braddock (Scarlett Johansson), with a working - class background takes a nanny job with Mr. and Mrs. X (Paul Giamatti, Laura... [MORE]

And, for older children, we are working a lot with data from the Tripod Project [now based at Tripod Education Partners, Inc.], which I founded more than a decade ago to help school leaders understand what students of different racial, ethnic, and social class backgrounds experience at the classroom level.

Ms Greening said «many young people from an ordinary working class background already attend our existing grammar schools».

He said he appreciated that many grammar schools did a «fine job», but added that their record of admitting children from non-middle class backgrounds was «pretty woeful».

«Maybe it's my working - class background showing again, but I don't think the district schools should be given money for students who aren't in attendance,» she said.

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You could argue that the group was actually truly representative of the «industry» as the very nature of travel blogging means that the younger end of travel blogging especially is over represented by people from white, middle class backgrounds because people who aren't from that background simply can't afford to take time out to travel... despite what some blogs might say.

As I say in my video review (click the link above to watch), both actors are simply superb in difficult roles, with Howle particularly impressive — as he was in his dour role in The Seagull — as a young man from a working - class background finding himself in over his head and married too soon to handle it all.

George is keen to demonstrate his readiness to split the green movement following criticism from Spiked - Online that its membership is almost exclusively or disproportionately people with middle and upper class backgrounds.

John McDonnell comes from a working class background in Liverpool and Campbell knows it.

How do Carnoy and Rothstein manage to raise U. S. educational performance to international standards simply by adjusting for the social - class background of its students?

In a separate study Dr Mairead Dunne, lecturer in education at Sussex, led a project that analysed grouping practices in 168 primary and secondary schools and found that working - class pupils are more likely to be placed in lower sets than middle - class pupils who have the same test results, and that pupils from middle - class backgrounds more likely to be assigned to higher sets, irrespective of their prior attainment.

Sadiq vowed «nothing was off the table» when it comes to Labour's drive to get more people from ethnic minorities and working class backgrounds into senior posts.

Nancy Kerrigan wasn't some WASP princess, she came from a working - class background like Harding, but the difference is that Kerrigan sold the illusion better and had a much more supportive home life.

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By the looks of this posting, you mean for ambitious careerists from comfortable middle class backgrounds who can't be bothered to wait their turn (people like Obama, in other words) rather than for ordinary people.

«A child's social class background at birth is still the best predictor of how well he or she will do at school and later on in life.»

The other major «Raj» nostalgia of the 1980s was the television serialisation The Jewel in the Crown, in which the villain — Ronald Merrick — was depicted as a sadistic deviant who happened to come from a lower middle class background, was a grammar school boy and a closet homosexual as well.