Sentences with phrase «educate middle class children»
As a government advisor said to me recently: «Ofsted tells you which schools educate middle class children adequately.»
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Otherwise competent journalistic reports on research findings about male homosexuality, such as Peter and Barbara Wyden's Growing Up Straight (Stein & Day, 1968), confound the picture for the public by appealing to the fears of middle - class parents; further, they profess (without foundation) to show that parents can educate their children away from the possibility of becoming homosexual.
Kalsu was white and the only child of middle - class parents — city - bred, college - educated, married, a father, devoutly Catholic.
On an individual level, if you are well - educated, middle - class parents (the children who make the biggest gains from early childhood education are those from deprived backgrounds) and use quality daycare (if you use it), you are probably not going to influence your child's outcomes all that much whatever you do.
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 vouchers would not, in Illich's view, offer poor children those benefits that truly set middle - class children apart: the conversation of educated people, books in the home, travel.
«But parents in the neighborhood who were middle - class parents and were educated people banded together and decided, «Well, if we all send our child to the local public school, it will get better.»
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.
And it is a matter that contrasts sharply with educating, more so than training, elite - and middle - class children rooted in their parents» values of «curiosity, happiness, consideration, and... self - control» and «self - direction.»
Senator Mikulski said, «As we look at how best to support jobs and opportunity to help middle class families get ahead and not just get by, we must look at how best to educate the children who will make up tomorrow's workforce.
As for cultural diversity, research has shown that schools that do the best job of educating low - income students tend to favor a traditional curriculum, strict discipline, and a paternalistic environment, whereas typical middle - class schools tend to be less structured and more child - centric.
Brinig: As we discuss in our book, the loss of Catholic schools is a «triple whammy» for our cities: When Catholic schools close, (1) poor kids lose schools with a track record of educating disadvantaged children at a time when they need them more desperately than ever; (2) poor neighborhoods that are already overwhelmed by disorder and crime lose critical and stabilizing community institutions — institutions that our research suggests suppress crime and disorder; and, (3) middle - class families must look elsewhere for educational options for their kids, leading many to migrate to suburbs with high - performing public schools.
High - quality tutoring can meet each student at his or her individual level, 22 a level of differentiation that is impossible for even the most dedicated of teachers to provide.23 Essentially, every student with an educated, engaged parent has access to one - on - one tutoring at home, which is perhaps one of the reasons why homework compounds the advantages enjoyed by middle - class children.24 For students who, for a variety of reasons, may not have access to that kind of academic assistance at home, receiving more tailored instruction from their schools can help to level the playing field and close achievement gaps.25
He was the younger of two children in an educated middle - class family and was encouraged in his intellectual and artistic pursuits by his parents for the majority of his childhood.