Sentences with phrase «class gap»

When it comes to the most basic measure of parenting investment — time spent with children — a large class gap has emerged.

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.

He told Radio 4's PM programme it could close what he called the «obscene social class gap» that he said had dogged Britain's higher education system for 50 years.

We hope you will join us to discuss the social impact of rapidly expanding class gaps and the role that schools can play to ensure all of «our kids» have an equal opportunity to excel.

In recent decades, we have seen a growing class gap in time spent with parents, educational performance, and participation in school activities... low - income children need more time with caring adults, including mentors.

the Labour Party's «Acting Up» report highlights a widening class gap in the performing arts and suggests that stage, television or film roles are «increasingly dominated by a narrow set of people from well - off backgrounds».

In recent decades, we have seen a growing class gap in time spent with parents, educational performance, and participation in school activities... low - income children need more time with caring adults, including mentors.

«All the things we're doing in education, from Sure Start to higher education and through to adult skills, is about closing the social class gap,» he told the magazine.

There would also be an «active industrial policy», «private sector reform» and closing «the class gap in education».

An almost madcap comic pace battles with thundercloud - building drama... The social commentary can be earnest and bald, with the mythic overtones seemingly contrived to tumble O'Leary into the class gap on his arse.

The class gap caused by lack of Internet access; Andy Kaufman may be alive; Weinstein Co. wins MPAA appeal; «Carlito's Way» appreciation; Dunham and Kaling's brass tacks.

And these class gaps in college attendance and graduation have been growing.