Sentences with phrase «class kids tend»

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.

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Mommy stereotypes bug me, but they also tend to make me feel less alone when I'm sitting in my yoga pants that have never seen an actual yoga class, hiding in the bathroom from my kids, drinking a glass of wine and lamenting about my huge receipt from Target.

And of course it tended to perpetuate class divisions, as better - off kids with better - educated parents were much more apt to make it into (and want to enter) the grammar schools.

There are very good reasons to be skeptical of GT programs — the fact that their participants tend not to achieve any more academically or socially than non-GT students, the dilution of NON-GT education by pulling the brightest kids out of those classes, and the promotion of homogeneity in an increasingly heterogenous community are chief among them.

The kids who end up in such programs tend to get reduced schedules and smaller, lower - level classes, which are sold to their parents as more «appropriate» options better suited to their needs than regular classes.

They found that small group teaching was more effective than whole class instruction — that is, if one compares 30 minutes of small group teaching versus 30 minutes of whole class teaching, the kids in the small group tend to make larger learning gains.

Meanwhile, the moderates and conservatives working / middle class tend to have kids, and especially in flyover America, read, and have the money to buy books.

Kids who were engaged in school tended to participate in class and succeed academically.