Sentences with phrase «class white parents»

It's that time of year again, when upper - middle class white parents get worked up about tests in school.

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Leave out white middle - class, subtract wealth, a privileged education and hovering parents, take away the luxury of worrying about performance instead of subsistence, and today's 20 - something suddenly doesn't much resemble the poster child for her brand anymore.

But, as Vale shows, this success and popularity rested on sustaining the projects as the home to a very narrow spectrum of the Boston poor, those deemed both deserving and respectable: two - parent, mostly white, single - earner, low - income, working - class families of good character in need of a temporary leg up — a stratum «below the bulk of blue - collar employees but above that of the unemployed, the irregularly employed, and the welfare - dependent.»

One might think that our white, upper - middle - class, nothing - but - the - best youngsters would respond positively to such concepts as «fairness» and «egalitarianism» — but apparently the best lesson we parents taught them was how to say No.

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Selective preschools, tracked classes, small schools within schools and enrichment programs are presented as open to all students but in reality are open only to the children of the most savvy parents — that is, to the children of rich white parents who possess the social and cultural capital to manipulate the institution to serve their needs.

It may sound silly, but I feel guilty because I was born in the United States of America to white, middle - class Christian parents, a fact that — through no merit of my own — has provided me with a more comfortable and privileged existence than most people in this world.

This raised a few eyebrows when my parents married back in the 60s in my father's white ultra middle - class... More

Kalsu was white and the only child of middle - class parents — city - bred, college - educated, married, a father, devoutly Catholic.

As part of her research, Brown interviewed 140 mostly white, middle - class mothers in the Minneapolis area about their cultural ideas of mothering, how they cope with their «life load,» and how they really parent.

Hmmm... I think by «American parenting», they might mean American upper - middle - class - and - probably - white - and urban - as - well, parenting.

We could say that this is a typical white, middle class concern — something that the author shares with a lot of worried middle class parents.

The sentiment is commendable, except that a voluntary scheme would see only the usual suspects attending — the kids who do Duke of Edinburgh, the white middle - class children whose parents are obsessed with how things look on their Ucas form.

«Only democrat not taking tons of money from the teachers union which is the largest single lobby to the democrats... if not for Cuomo, thousands of children of color and white middle class kids would have been forced out of the charter schools their parents fought hard to get their kids into,» she wrote.

Then the unions fed the paranoid «opt out» movement, with hundreds of thousands of parents (mostly middle - class Long Islanders) refusing to let their kids take the state exams that measure student achievement — and Cuomo waved the white flag on using exams as part of teacher evaluations.

The entire cast also deliver excellent performances; the always reliable Catherine Keener and Bradley Whitford capture the requisite creepiness as the white, middle - class parents and Alison Williams has an effective screen presence that, on many occasions, reminded me of a younger Jennifer Connelly.

Plot: Rose Armitage (Alison Williams) comes from a well - to - do, white, middle class family and goes upstate to visit her parent's for the weekend with her black boyfriend Chris (Daniel Kaluuya).

The return of many white, upper - middle - class, educated parents — and their young children — to city centers has caused some urban districts, like those in Philadelphia, Chicago, and Boston, to actively encourage these families to send their children to local district 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.

The reaction of the principal in a gentrifying neighborhood's school to the arrival of more - demanding parents largely determined whether the white, upper - middle - class families stayed at the school in spite of the yelling and other incidents, or left.

Many upper - middle - class parents are willing to have their children be «the first» white kids in a school and are comfortable with the idea of their child being a superminority.

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.

After interviewing more than 50 of these gentrifiers about their school - choice process, I concluded that it is the substantive differences in parenting styles between the white, upper - middle - class parents and the nonwhite, less - affluent parents that are hindering school integration, as these parenting styles directly affect school culture and expectations.

The teachers in predominantly poor, minority schools, who are reportedly mostly black and have adopted the more teacher - centered, authoritarian style of instruction that they view as appropriate for their students, are turning off white, upper - middle - class parents who want school climates similar to their own progressive homes, where problems are discussed.

The case was brought last month by the parents of three white preschoolers who were denied admission to next fall's kindergarten class at the Arlington Traditional School, a countywide magnet school serving about 300 students in grades K - 5.

But to capitalize on this opportunity, urban schools that currently serve a predominantly poor and minority population must find a way to attract and retain the gentrifiers — mostly white, upper - middle - class, highly educated parents.

It isn't clear what drove these principals to reject the white, upper - middle - class parents and their attempts to bring resources to the schools.

But if (white) parents discover that their children have been denied access to an AP class to ensure racial balancing, they will likely bring suit just like the parents from Seattle in Parents Inparents discover that their children have been denied access to an AP class to ensure racial balancing, they will likely bring suit just like the parents from Seattle in Parents Inparents from Seattle in Parents InParents Involved.

The report recommends that working with white working class pupils from an early age and engaging parents are key in ensuring all young people have the opportunity to participate in higher education.»

If children who are experiencing success in schools or for whom schools generally «work» (that is, white, middle - class, nondisabled children) don't participate in the assessment, their parents lose valuable information.

«When we have been successful in bringing parents into the school, they tended to be white, middle class parents who had done well when they were students in school,» Ehrich said.

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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.).

In two of the school districts he visited, white parents tended to be the ones most involved in the parent — teacher associations.They know, for example, about mathematics placement tests in fifth grade that dictated which classes students will take.

In the specific context of hiring decisions, it is common for people who are middle class, White, and formally educated to make decisions about who will teacher lower - income Brown and Black children without the feedback, solicited or otherwise, of parents and children in that same community.

Many of these individuals are white, middle - class kids who grew up in white - flight - created suburbia, but are choosing to return to the neighborhoods that their parents and grandparents left decades before.

The fact that both middle - class black and white males — kids from college - educated homes that should have strong moral values and be exposed to good parenting — are struggling in reading and other aspects of academics should give personable responsibility myth believers pause.

Paul Gibson, an alternate parent representative on the School Governance Council, said that information presented at council meetings suggests that the science labs were largely classes for white students.

New York was one of the first states to use Common Core - aligned tests, and as students» scores plummeted under the new tests, a small army of mostly white, middle - class parents in the city's suburbs began to loudly oppose the exams.

Placing positive value on parental activities that provide visibility as well as work that occurs from a «collective orientation» compounds the advantage of parents that participate in the PTO, and thus disproportionately benefits the white, middle class parent.

Labour's views are based on a reality that has long dissolved; free schools are no longer for white middle - class parents in areas where they are not wanted It's...

Essentially the school community placed greater value on the predominately white, middle class parent as provider over the minority parent, who commonly acted as a protector.

These new demographics have the potential to change the way parents engage with schools, as white middle class parents are more likely to be involved in parent organizations and take on leadership roles [xv].

These students are different from the ones who have historically made up the bulk of the student body: white, middle class, born of educated parents and generally free of the kinds of out - of - school challenges that can impede learning.

Opting out of state tests has made waves for the last couple of years as mostly White parents in mostly upper - middle class neighborhoods rallied students to opt - out of state tests.

The concerns of white middle - class parents drive the conversation, demonstrating a fear that higher standards will reveal weaknesses in their schools and knowledge gaps in their children.

However, parental involvement is often defined by the privileges of the white, middle - class parents who can afford to volunteer to be classroom parents, join the PTA and coordinate fundraisers.

Likewise, issues surrounding school discipline loom large, with middle - class standards of behavior and decorum recast as a form of cultural hegemony imposed by well - off, mainly white parents intent on remaining in control.

Over the previous decade, the school had shifted from a primarily white middle - class school to one with a substantial population of the children of Spanish - speaking immigrants; many of these parents were low - income workers.

The people advocating the loudest for gifted - education programs are typically middle - class white and Asian parents seeking to maximize advantages for their kids and others like them — which renders the whole project suspect for many advocates of the disadvantaged.