Sentences with phrase «class suburb»

I grew up in a lower - middle - class suburb of a big city, where my father worked in consulting for most of my childhood.

Over the years more and more homeless have been coming, which shows there is a need even in an upper middle class suburb.

I am a teacher in a very poor school district, but I am a mom living in a middle class suburb.

«I grew up in Ilford [in Essex], and Ilford was a weird sort of town, it was a dormitory suburb but also a working class suburb of London.

Poor, young, black and with only a high school degree, he lived his whole life (1965 - 1998) in a working class suburb in Bessemer, Ala., and he died at 32 from AIDS - related pneumonia.

Eagles View is perched on the edge of the Kloof Gorge and Krantzkloof Nature Reserve located in Kloof, a leafy upper class suburb and small town situated in Durban and best known for its reserves and picturesque landscapes.

Speaking of race, writes Imani Perry in Race and Rioting: «Yesterday was the first time that I heard race or immigrant status mentioned on broadcast television with respect to the recent uprisings and protests occurring in poor and working class suburbs across France.

He grew up in Justice, Ill., a working - class suburb on the fringe of Chicago, in a household headed by his stepfather, an ironworker, and his mother, a traditional homemaker.

As Collier points out, in many cities the brighter and better - motivated black people have moved into white, middle - class suburbs so that there are far fewer role models in the black community.

A seven - year - old boy from a typical middle - class suburb dreams of growing up to become just like his idol Vincent Price in this playfully macabre, black - and - white short from director Tim Burton.

He also has been the research director of the Minority Student Achievement Network, a consortium of 21 school districts in diverse middle - to uppermiddle - class suburbs where achievement is generally solid, but not always for minority students.

In Saving Schools, I bring together insights from the work of a number of talented black scholars, who have tried to figure out why the black - white education gap was not closed by the well - integrated schools of Shaker Heights, Ohio, an upper - middle - class suburb close to Cleveland.

She teaches fourth grade at the Elizabeth M. Baker Elementary School in Great Neck, a middle - class suburb about 20 miles from New York City.

The edifice, a full - scale simulation of his childhood domicile in Detroit's working - class suburb Westland, stands as a (anti--RRB- monument to Kelley as well as to the contradictory, financially depressed city that it engages.

Powell grew up in Stratford, Connecticut, a mostly - white, upper middle class suburb of New York, where she was one of few African Americans in her high school.

I have been a teacher for many years and have noticed growing residualisation in government schools in the working - class suburb in which I live and have taught in.

Eagles View is perched on the edge of the Kloof Gorge and Krantzkloof Nature Reserve located in Kloof, a leafy upper class suburb and small town situated in Durban and best known for its reserves and picturesque lan...

On a recent Sunday morning, worshipers packed a Pentecostal church set up on the second floor of an apartment building in a working class suburb of Havana.

These simple columns carry the accumulated weight of over 3000 years of history from the Parthenon to faux Greek villas in middle - class suburbs across America.

For many, Lady Bird signified something meaningful and universal for those who grew up in white middle class suburbs and longed for culture anywhere, or to find some sort of foothold as an adult — it reminded me much more of The Graduate than it did The 400 Blows.

Binelli, a Rolling Stone writer who grew up in a working - class suburb of Detroit, returned to the Motor City in 2009 because of a feeling that something important was happening in his hometown.

The melting pot is boiling, fueled by affluence or the opportunity to get ahead, the steady movement to the middle - class suburbs, the ease and inexpensiveness of road and air travel, the readiness to relocate to other cities and states, the decline of religious institutional power, the increase in education, the steady rise in interfaith and interracial marriages, the decline of foreign languages, the fracturing of the extended family, and above all, the expansion of personal freedom.

99 Ranch Market looks for middle - and upper - class suburbs that have a sizeable Asian population, he says.

Traditionally, wrestling has always been big in middle - class suburbs and small towns, and in recent years, it has become even more concentrated in those areas.

... a happily married mother of two moves from small town America to the high — class suburbs and is faced with confronting the cutthroat world of competitive parenting.

Word of the controversy ricocheted around this tightly - knit, working - class suburb of 15,000 last week.

He grew up in a working class suburb of Dublin.

Born July 13, 1942, in Chicago and raised in a middle - class suburb, he had an average childhood.

Like a lot of girls born into the upper - middle - class suburb of Pasadena, CA, Sophia Bush caught a whiff of the Hollywood air just down the road and took an interest in acting at an early age.

It can be so much more interesting when there is something horribly insidious going on in the middle and upper class suburbs, rather than dark alleys and run down apartment blocks.

Here he's working in a middle - class suburb of New York, where Marlo and her husband, Drew (Ron Livingston, playing a very Ron Livingston character), are slightly overwhelmed by everything: they have two kids, one with emerging special needs, and a baby on the way, and their lives have devolved to rote routine.

Lynne Ramsay grew up in a working - class suburb of Glasgow in the mid 1970's, a milieu that she drew on for her debut feature Ratcatcher.

Soon after Amityville, we begin to cut back and forth between the Warrens» hardships at home — plagued by accusations of charlatanry and visions of evil spirits, both — and the beginnings of a new haunting across the Atlantic, in what looks like a working - class suburb of London.

Andrew Haigh's startlingly assured 2011 film Weekend chronicled the intense connection between two young gay men over the course of a few days in a working - class suburb of London.

After all, achievement - test scores and graduation rates in the middle - class suburb were already surpassing state averages.

Ellenbrook Independent Primary School, located in a working class suburb of Perth, was doing it tough until about six years ago, drastically underperforming in NAPLAN tests.

As a junior, I earned a place acting at The Drama Studio, a conservatory in Ealing, a working - class suburb of London.

A 1993 front - page New York Times story reported: «Gang membership grows in middle - class suburbs,» showing up in everything from larceny and vandalism in schools to «razors, bats, and bottles, and now to guns.»

Schools that most disadvantaged black children attend today are located in segregated neighborhoods far distant from middle - class suburbs.

West Columbia is a middle - class suburb of the state capital, Columbia, where Gov. Beasley and other state leaders preside.

• Risk also underestimated the large number of Americans, particularly in middle - class suburbs, who believe that their schools are basically sound and academically successful.

The chilly wind whips the yellow and brown leaves around the granite gravestones at St. Paul's Cemetery in this middle - class suburb of Baltimore.

Annandale High School opened its doors in 1954 in the still - segregated school system of Fairfax County, Virginia, a burgeoning middle - class suburb of Washington, D.C..

West Hartford, a district of 10,000 student and 16 schools in a mostly upper - middle - class suburb, has long attracted young parents with its reputation for stellar schools.