Sentences with phrase «class families tend»

Test - based systems are politically doomed because middle - and upper - middle - class families tend to prevail in education politics.

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Thus, financial support from family tends to reinforce existing class structure and contributes to income inequality.

When a city grows rich, its wealth tends to outpace its housing supply, forcing prices higher and making vast swaths of the city unaffordable for middle - class families.

That system seemed to undercut the democratic gains that were being made in law, politics, education «and family life; it tended rather toward a new feudalism, dominated by robber barons and served by a new class of.

«Children from large families tend to make poorer showings on intelligence tests and on educational measures, even when social class is controlled.»

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.

However, those families who do have the material resources associated with middle - class status tend to invest in their children's education at similar or higher levels than their white counterparts,» says Merolla.

But as the title suggests, Turner's recollections aren't about his unlikely but utterly affecting May - December romance; rather, he recounts how, at the end of her life, Grahame sought to reconnect with her then ex-lover, seeking refuge in his working - class home in Liverpool to be tended by his loving, unruly, often tartly amusing family.

Much prior research has focused on children from middle - to upper - class families, who in general tend to outpace those from low - income families in the rate at which their vocabulary size expands.

For middle - class and affluent children, this kind of constant monitoring, advising, and problem - solving tends to be baked into their lives, whether through aggressive helicopter parenting or simply having friends and family members who've been to college and are neither awed by the process nor intimidated by pitfalls.

Private schooling and upper middle class families do tend to lead to better educated students.

The first seeks to reduce the number of high - poverty schools, which tend to be segregated both by class and race, by dispersing students from poor families to schools with predominantly middle - class or affluent students.

One explanation for the difference in waitlists may be that middle - class parents tend to choose schools where there's already a critical mass of families like them.

However, while the most common forms of family engagement (such as encouraging parents to attend school events, serve as classroom volunteers, and participate on fund - raising committees) tend to line up well with middle - class child - rearing practices and family resources (Lareau, 2003), they can be less accessible to families who have recently arrived in the United States, or whose child - rearing practices differ from those of school leaders.

Empowered middle - class families already tend to view their relationships with educators as partnerships and actively participate in school decision - making contexts (Davidson, 2014).

Black middle class families in wealthy black neighborhoods tend to give their children whatever is within their means in order to guarantee their future middle class status.

Because white middle class families who represent a large portion of the housing market are reluctant to pursue homes in black neighborhoods, property values tend to fall if a neighborhood becomes majority black and remain low compared to white neighborhoods (Fletcher, 2015).

Current explanations of social class gaps in children's early academic skills tend to focus on non-cognitive skills that more advantaged children acquire in the family.

This class of car tends to be a multipurpose vehicle for a majority of Americans, a comfortable car for the daily commute that can also take the family to the relatives» on holidays.

People tend to get bored very quickly on small islands and they're forced to give up their family and access to world - class medical care.

(b) which exposes, or tends to expose, to hatred, ridicules, belittles or otherwise affronts the dignity of any person, any class of persons or a group of persons; because of his or their race, creed, religion, colour, sex, sexual orientation, family status, marital status, disability, age, nationality, ancestry, place of origin or receipt of public assistance.

Children in societies where extended families live together in traditional styles tend to display more prosocial - cooperative behavior than children in economically complex societies with class structures and occupational division of labour.13 Early socialization of responsibility is associated with the development of prosocial - cooperative behavior.

Even worse, American schools are not a great equalizer because those in low - income areas tend to have teachers without tenure, behavioral problems that slow down entire classes and more mobile families, he said.