Sentences with phrase «class suburban parents»

In All Fall Down, Weiner tackles a growing epidemic in our society: middle - and upper - class suburban parents who abuse prescription medication to cope with their overworked and overstressed lifestyles.

Rick Hess fingers the reformers» social justice agenda, which is at odds with the interests of middle class suburban parents.

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As an adult I was pretty shocked to learn that many black parents (even middle - class suburban black parents) give their teenagers very explicit «how not to get shot by police during a traffic stop» instructions.

Many of the suburban, middle - class Chinese - American parents in her study had the means to buy their children academically enriching afterschool experiences — tutoring, test - preparation courses, or language classes — and to send them to high - performing, often private, schools.

But if the loudest and most active (read: white upper - middle - class suburban) parents think standardized tests are just an annual annoyance, if these parents and other activist voters choose to disbelieve the results in the fact - free era of modern political discourse, then accountability will be diluted down to the posting of test results and the annual finger wagging of the local news media.

Really bad if the pushback forces succeed in drawing in white, middle - class, suburban parents by convincing them that charters drain money from their high - functioning schools.

As researchers have documented (see «U.S. Students from Educated Families Lag in International Tests,» features, Fall 2014), even middle - class and suburban parents have reason to find fault with their schools.

Among the characteristics shared by urban schools include large class sizes, social and disciplinary problems, a large percentage of poor and minority children, and little involvement from parents compared to their suburban counterparts.

Philadelphia, like most urban school districts, spends a significant amount of money on things most suburban districts do not, such as increased security measures, school police, metal detectors, non-teaching hallway patrols, health services, detention centers, discipline schools, teen parenting centers, daycare, nurseries, and non-English-speaking classes.

«The proliferation of charters in Mecklenburg County served as grist for the political activism of suburban parents who threatened a middle - class exodus from CMS to the charter sector if new assignment boundaries did not honor their current neighborhood school assignments.