Sentences with phrase «class kids»

A two year study of middle class kids in ten public middle schools should disturb families — even loving families — that yell at their children.

Even if we could double that proportion, there would still be a large majority of poor and working class kids needing another path to the middle class.

Most immigrant and lower middle class kids need this assistance in every high school.

I saw how much the deck is stacked against working class kids before we even started.

She was very engaging with the reception class kids.

He's a working - class kid whose father died young and who hasn't had too many advantages.

He's totally convincing as a working - class kid trying to survive his first year at a prestigious university and still maintain his old friends at home.

The basic theory is that middle - class kids enter adolescence with certain working models in their heads: what I can achieve; how to control impulses; how to work hard.

Despite all the talk of helping working class kids «escape» their circumstances, grammar schools will be used as another stick to beat them with.

Worse, she finds no persuasive evidence that going to school with poor kids does no behavioral or academic harm to middle class kids.

In her own words, Marissa grew up among «white upper class kids in shaved heads» talking about revolution.

Wes Anderson's feature debut, an affectionate shaggy dog story of middle class kids who plan an elaborate heist of a small bookstore with the help of the local «criminal mastermind» (James Caan), also marks the debut of actors Owen Wilson (who co-wrote the film with Anderson) and Luke Wilson.

As Paul Tough points out in his recent New York Times article, «Rich kids graduate; poor and working class kids don't» the graduation rates for students from underrepresented communities are significantly higher at small liberal arts institutions, where students are encouraged to question the dominant discourse and develop their own policy perspectives.

Cuomo likes to describe himself as a middle - class kid from Queens (another point of distinction with regard to Spitzer, born into a wealthy Manhattan family).

As for middle class kids getting great educations... way does ACT report 75 % of incoming college freshmen aren't prepared for college?

With foodservice spending leaping back to pre-recession levels combined with industry consultants» predictions of a dramatic increase in family dining visits this year, Boston's Restaurant & Sports Bar (Boston's) is announcing the launch of a best - in - class kids program to enhance its kid - friendly environment in the dining room and for guests at home.

And it looks as if their scores will be truly impressive — almost indistinguishable from those of middle - class kids living in better neighborhoods.

Millions of working class kids like her are similarly crippled every year by a lack of support at home and at school.

Also, school choice within the publicly funded school arena and private education (both religious and non-religious) often accentuate already existing disparities as affluent middle class kids opt out of local public schools in low income areas with «bad schools» by this measure.

Set in 1985, the movie follows a gauche, working - class kid named Brian (James McAvoy) during his freshman year at Bristol University.

The first is what Canada calls the Conveyor Belt — a system that reaches kids early and then moves them through a seamless series of programs that try to re-create the invisible cocoon of support that surrounds middle - class and upper - middle - class kids throughout their childhoods.

But Lauren also reveals how and why a middle - class kid found herself in such a line of work — and how she got out.»

1st Class Kids Travel Pillow

«This really emanated from an idea that I had... that access to college should be available to everyone regardless of whether a middle class kid able to drive or an inner city kid without transportation,» said Hein of the new satellite campus.

Lots of research talks about what happens in the first few years of a kid's life and how poor children don't get the support and input — things as simple as language or as complicated as an outlook on life, self - esteem, and how you interact with institutions — that middle - class kids tend to get.

From its start, the BASIS target audience has been middle - class and working - class kids because «they have a stinky education, too,» Michael Block said.

Are these non-academic attributes just «extras» — luxuries that schools serving poor or working class kids just can't afford?

«For middle class kids trained in a sense for delayed gratification, high school has been beaten into them.

The HCZ model is a systematic effort to emulate in low - income communities the buffering and guidance that middle class kids receive in stronger families or social networks.

They describe persistently low expectations of the largely white, working class kids attending the school.

Middle - class hippies and working - class kids faced off.

Given the same teachers, principal, building and school supplies, filling a school with upper middle class kids with involved parents will create a «good» school, while filling that same school with low income and minority kids with uneducated parents will probably create a «bad» school with low test scores, safety issues, and discipline problems.

Many of these individuals are white, middle - class kids who grew up in white - flight - created suburbia, but are choosing to return to the neighborhoods that their parents and grandparents left decades before.

On the other hand, I didn't have the luxuries that a lot of other middle class kids do.

The Raising World Class Kids (RWCK) course is designed to address this reality, often overlooked by other parenting programs, by melding two powerful, evidence - based curricula to provide families with the most effective parenting resource available.

A working - class kid from Essex, Brian arrives at Bristol University brimming with confidence and important life questions (among them: «I want to know why people actually like jazz») yet decidedly uncool.

«Much Ado About Nothing» / Chile (Director: Alejandro Fernández, Screenwriters: Alejandro Fernández, Jerónimo Rodríguez)-- An upper - class kid gets in trouble with the one percent.

When Osborne spoke about «shirkers» we knew he didn't mean the middle class kids living off their rich parents, he meant unemployed people on estates.

But Some Girls also undertakes the deepest challenge: it reveals how and why a middle - class kid like Lauren found herself in such a line of work — and how she got out.

I would rather see some middle class kids opt out of the system rather than continue the unsustainable business model which yeilds lousy food for all.

Working class kids need to see people like themselves succeeding, but as report after report has shown, the tops jobs in the UK are overwhelmingly filled by people from elite educational and socio - economic backgrounds.

The film, which was cited for the truth of its social realism, treated a couple of working class kids in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and their difficulties.

When recognition of that complexity shapes hiring, it opens transformative opportunities to people from groups underrepresented in top professions: ethnic minorities, stay - at - home parents, working - class kids, veterans.