Sentences with phrase «class background at»

«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.»

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After graduating from the first Imagine K12 incubator class in 2011, Class Dojo co-founders Sam Chaudhary and Liam Don were armed with a background in education, seed capital, and interviews with thousands of teachers about the biggest time - suck they faced at school — behavior manageclass in 2011, Class Dojo co-founders Sam Chaudhary and Liam Don were armed with a background in education, seed capital, and interviews with thousands of teachers about the biggest time - suck they faced at school — behavior manageClass Dojo co-founders Sam Chaudhary and Liam Don were armed with a background in education, seed capital, and interviews with thousands of teachers about the biggest time - suck they faced at school — behavior management.

Besides clearing this year's bar of at least $ 5.1 billion in annual revenue, the companies in the Fortune 500 freshman class come from widely disparate backgrounds and took many different paths to arrive to the list.

«The speaker will be delivering a personal, non-political message at the Catholic University of America that he hopes will speak to all members of the graduating class, regardless of their backgrounds or affiliations,» he said in a statement to CNN.

Friends of mine with no church background at all have raced to the front at altar calls, then happily attended discipleship classes and house groups.

And if we are sent by this Host to exercise his hospitality in the world, we are not at liberty to impose upon the church and its mission patterns of hospitality that are the products of our racial, ethnic, class, gender or other personal backgrounds — including our sexual orientation.

With the wealth of knowledge I received at BOND, the confidence and inspiration from my peers, along with my background in Babywearing I was able to create a full early infant attachment, kangaroo care, safe sleep (including Breastsleeping), and Babywearing class and teach it at my local shelter for new and expectant moms, as well as provide carriers with donations from two different companies whose reps I first met at BOND.

Diane Abbott and Andy Burnham were both insistent that those from working - class and minority backgrounds are most at risk of disenfranchisment.

Edward is a researcher at the University of Oxford, where he is studying for an MPhil in International Relations, coming from a background as a social and political geographer, (where he was a First Class prizewinner in BA Geography at Oxford).

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.

Having gained a first class degree from Oxford and begun his career working as a civil servant at 10 Downing Street under Baroness Thatcher, the former MP was nicknamed «Two Brains» by his colleagues due to his background and his serious approach to policy formulation.

However, an analysis of the socio - economic background of the respondents — measured as their parent's occupation at age 14 - reveals that this increase is not evenly distributed across social classes.

Politics were talked about around the dinner table at home — a family background she describes as «intellectual working class».

I think in fairness to Steve Hart, Unite's strategy makes union backed candidates from a broader social background part of their political strategy, but certainly not the end of it: At the Unite meeting at Labour Conference, Jon Trickett & Len McCluskey made the case for Unite & Labour developing MP's from down to earth backgrounds, but linked this very much to having policies that adress the needs of working class voters: The Unite strategy is fairly broad, including recruitng union members to Labour, developing MP's (who as McCluskey are backed because they «reflect the values of the union movement» — rather than just being from a particular social class), and supporting the CLASS think tank to develop policy — I did a write up of this meeting for the Morning Star (and a rival Progress one), which may be of interest (I think it will appear if you click on my namAt the Unite meeting at Labour Conference, Jon Trickett & Len McCluskey made the case for Unite & Labour developing MP's from down to earth backgrounds, but linked this very much to having policies that adress the needs of working class voters: The Unite strategy is fairly broad, including recruitng union members to Labour, developing MP's (who as McCluskey are backed because they «reflect the values of the union movement» — rather than just being from a particular social class), and supporting the CLASS think tank to develop policy — I did a write up of this meeting for the Morning Star (and a rival Progress one), which may be of interest (I think it will appear if you click on my namat Labour Conference, Jon Trickett & Len McCluskey made the case for Unite & Labour developing MP's from down to earth backgrounds, but linked this very much to having policies that adress the needs of working class voters: The Unite strategy is fairly broad, including recruitng union members to Labour, developing MP's (who as McCluskey are backed because they «reflect the values of the union movement» — rather than just being from a particular social class), and supporting the CLASS think tank to develop policy — I did a write up of this meeting for the Morning Star (and a rival Progress one), which may be of interest (I think it will appear if you click on my name)

Take one look at the MP's on the Tory benches — they are universally wealthy, even the select few from working class backgrounds

Scientists at research institutes and universities in Singapore are carrying out valuable and world - class research, but they might not be in a position to convey the potential of their discovery to a venture capitalist, unless the venture capitalist has a scientific background or at least access to someone on the team who does.

«One answer to fostering academic equity among high achievers is the public availability of challenging educational programs across all ethnic and social class backgrounds,» said study author Sharon L. Weinberg, professor of applied statistics and psychology at NYU Steinhardt.

As a first - generation college student from a working - class background, educated at a state university, he didn't know his way around the academic system.

When some of her students at CAU struggled in her classes because they didn't have the necessary background, she realized that there's no way you can try to catch up after a certain point.

The results show that, after adjusting for differences in family background, black students at any class level are more likely than their white counterparts to attend a four - year university.

Join us July 10 at 2:00 pm EDT for a one - hour live chat session for your chance to ask current and alumni fellows with similar discipline backgrounds about their fellowship experience, and get answers to your questions about the AAAS S&T Policy Fellowship program and application process for the 2015 - 16 fellowship class.

It is our intention that those who wish to teach have the tools to offer a beginning yoga class upon completion of the training, and to have at least some basic understanding of the vast background of this great science and spiritual practice.

Two small children helped the inner journey go even deeper, and eventually, her technical background and experience and training as a Yoga teacher took hold (in the background of the many science jobs, there was ALWAYS at least one Yoga class being fit into the schedule — if you are a scientist looking for a Yoga teacher (or a Yogi looking to know more about science), talk to Tammy.

I like you have a strong background in sewing, but had never learned to knit until last fall when I took a class through community ed (I teach sewing at the same school).

I was a little intimidated at first because I was never really a dancer, and I know that it was founded by a dancer, but I am here to say that you absolutely do not have to have a dancing background to do any kind of barre class.

Today, the 42 - year - old sits at a single desk, framed by a high shelf lined with photographs, print campaigns and other ephemera that document the story of Rag & Bone, a brand as deeply rooted in Wainwright's upper class British background as his life in New York and his personal connection to America's shrinking manufacturing base.

Name: Joanna Torres Age: 33 Location: Brooklyn, NY Title: Owner / Designer at BrooklynThread Educational Background: Bachelor of Arts from Baruch College, several masters business classes at Baruch College

Full name: Erin Tubridy Gates Age: 32 Current title / company: Founder of Erin Gates Design (interiors, fashion and events) and Elements of Style blog Year that you started Erin Gates Design (formerly Element Interiors): 2007 Educational background: Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from Connecticut College, various interior design classes at colleges in Boston

The class implications of this allegory are painfully clear: though I suspect that Rockwell's background is more comfortable, the working - class origins of Anders, Rodriguez, and Tarantino (or at least what are perceived as his working - class origins) are central to their movies, and the myth of these filmmakers» ascendancy derives its power from the American dream.

That being said, if I do my job well, my hope is that I can leave DCPS as a district where students are achieving at high levels no matter their backgrounds, families are choosing DCPS schools because of the world - class education we provide, and parents and community members feel like they've contributed to DCPS» amazing successes.

In short, in the 1990s, in working class neighborhoods with leftist backgrounds, the cruising white Renault cars [used by plainclothes cops], disappearing people, unresolved assassinations, incidents like those at Gazi and 1 Mayıs neighborhoods in 1995 where shots were fired at residents resulting in deaths, led to a renewed blow on the rekindling hope for the future.

He says that pursuing a career in education, starting with TFA, is important to him because he wants to give students of all racial and socioeconomic backgrounds the same educational opportunity he had at Harvard — a sentiment echoed by many students from Merseth's class.

They looked at students with similar educational backgrounds, some of whom enrolled in remedial classes and some of whom did not.

Collaborative group work is not appropriate at all times, and is often misused or structured ineffectively, so teachers should be thoughtful about goals for the class, the nature of the content, and the background knowledge of their students.

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.

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.

Given that everyone has different learning needs at different times — we learn at different paces, have different aptitudes, and enter classes with different experiences and background knowledge — we need an education system that can customize so that each student can realize her fullest potential.

Indeed, it goes to the heart of the American promise of equal opportunity: No matter your background or family circumstance, you have a shot at a middle - class life if you work hard and get a good education.

Historically, public education has played a key role in growing the middle class and ensuring that all children, regardless of their backgrounds, have an opportunity to achieve at high levels.

Back at Sturgis — where 12 percent of students are from disadvantaged backgrounds and 11 percent have learning disabilities — students are considering the creation of the national bank from different perspectives in history class, analyzing E. B. White's essays in English class, developing environmental impact assessments in science class, and reflecting on how they know what they know in theory of knowledge class.

Pretend gun - free zones, where law - abiding adults (who pass a fingerprint - based background check and a safety training class) are still disarmed, are magnets for evildoers who know they will be able to murder at will with little threat of being fired upon.

Parents who provide learning support at home can improve their child's literacy and emotional development, regardless of their class or educational background.

At the elementary levels, we continue to be mostly white, mostly female, and mostly middle - class in background (Grant & Secada, 1990).

A Department for Education spokesperson said: «Free schools are at the heart of the government's commitment to deliver real social justice by ensuring more pupils from all backgrounds have access to a world class education.

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.

Students may be unintentionally penalized for such things as having a disability, being from a certain cultural background, or attending classes at a school with limited resources.

As a public charter school we have a wide diversity of students and many come to us with a weaker background in mathematics than is necessary to enter concurrent enrollment classes at the college where we are located.

CHSA believes that greater support for these models at the federal, state, and local levels will significantly improve the secondary and postsecondary outcomes of students, particularly those from low - income and middle - class backgrounds.

«By creating new schools where they are needed most and helping all great schools to grow, we can give parents greater choice in looking at schools that are right for their family — and give children of all backgrounds access to a world - class education.»

CHSA believes that greater support for these models at the federal, state, and local levels will significantly improve the secondary and post secondary outcomes of students, particularly those from low - income and middle - class backgrounds.