Sentences with phrase «class peers often»

But if elementary - level teachers and administrators are able to move away from a narrow focus on basic skills and give our youngest disadvantaged kids some of the knowledge their middle - class peers often acquire at home, we can still give them a fighting chance.

Not exact matches

One of the amazing things about lateral learning is that you can often learn much more from your peers, role models, and even competitors than you can from any teacher, class, book, or lecture.

Once there, instead of building up their social capital, they continue to «concentrate very intensely on their work,... whereas often their upper or middle - class peers are involved in societies; they're networking; they're doing a whole range of things that actually support their career,» Reay says.

They were coming into class during morning recess just to blog and check their stats, and when they get a hit from somewhere interesting, they often shout out the news with excitement to their peers: «Someone from Australia visited my blog!»

We peer edit and conference to revise the papers, and depending on time, I'll often have students present their analysis to the class.

Issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation, and ability often complicate this question for adolescents, affecting their schoolwork and their relationships with teachers, family, and peers.

These range from achievement - related stress, often coming from parental pressures, to overcoming language and social class barriers, family problems, and peer group and personal social concerns.

Research suggests that low - income students in mixed - income schools — surrounded by peers who expect to go on to college, parents in the school community who regularly volunteer in class, and strong teachers — perform substantially better than comparable students in high - poverty schools that often lack those ingredients for success.

Our school atmosphere is friendly and the dress code and single gender classes eliminate much of the peer pressure middle school children often deal with.

, which is often used to try to explain why African - American and Latino students do not perform at the level of their middle - class white peers, ignores the issues plaguing all of our nation's schools.

This, in spite of the fact that the District decided to slash the offerings for those very children by eliminating all of the 27 elementary art, music and PE positions in the Lansing schools over a year ago, leaving the city's students with only 2 music, art and PE classes per semester, while their peers in neighboring school systems often receive these classes twice per week.

Keeping in mind that technicians are in a class by themselves, some of them often teased or ridiculed by their peers for the smallest thing.

Often, these classes utilize peer editing exercises.

Through an array of campy stereotypes that range from a suspicious housewife peering out a window to a Divine-esque drag queen, Gaignard interrogates her own intersectional identity as a biracial woman as well as the often murky, difficult terrain of race, class, and gender in contemporary culture.

McKibben is an example of what Nisbet calls a «knowledge journalist,» a special class of public intellectual who writes journalistically, but who unlike most of their journalistic peers specializes in the translation of complex subjects, often championing specific policy positions or causes.