Sentences with phrase «class schoolmates»

Desegregation efforts in the 1960s and 1970s did help middle class blacks gain greater access to society; but they, like their white middle class schoolmates, were already guaranteed some level of it.

Afforded the influence of bourgeois peers, they transcend the limits of the urban classroom — and they do so without systematic injury to their middle - class schoolmates; the poor win, and the rich don't lose.

Not exact matches

My schoolmates George Baffoe, and later Edmond Baidoe were the big brains I had to work hard to beat in class.

We can place each student in a classroom and school so we know about the demographic and educational characteristics of students» schoolmates as well as the size of their class.

It is a regression in which student achievement is explained by a combination of school inputs (resources such as funding per student, class size, teacher qualifications, etc.) and the characteristics of peers (percentage of schoolmates who are white and who are black, etc.), families (race, ethnicity, parents» education, number of siblings, etc.), and neighborhoods (the share of households who rent versus own, etc.).

No amount of strategic planning or performance evaluation or project - based curricula can succeed in a school where kids don't feel good about themselves, their class, or schoolmates, where their teachers just punch a timesheet rather than inspire in their students a hunger for intellectualism and learning, where parents feel disconnected or unwelcome.