Sentences with phrase «from white working class»

In fact, with the possible exception of minority boys from the Caribbean, schools whose student population had shifted from white working class to minority were usually schools with high gain scores.

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Cornell's mother suffered from heart disease through much of her life, and the two of them lived very modestly off her disability check in working - class White - stone, Queens.

Obama cited statistics released the same day in the White House's new report from his Council of Economic Advisers which show that conflicts likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on retirement savings as well as $ 17 billion of losses every year for working and middle - class families.

A provocative new report from Sentier Research gives us insight into what might be the key factor in the Trump phenomenon: A secular decline in the financial well - being of white working class males and what we can infer as the resulting anger directed at the political powers that be.

Second, Santorum's rhetorical strategy was built around winning over white working - class Democrats from the mid-1970s and it isn't the 1970s anymore.

One of the themes that emerges from Shattered (a chronicle of the Clinton campaign) is that the Clinton operation didn't want to make a strong play for working - class white voters in swing states.

We both hail from white, working class communities.

Naturally, they preferred easy - to - control children from white middle - or working - class backgrounds.

We've all heard that Donald Trump has strong support from working class white males.

But the problem fans mostly come from the same mostly working class white and Italian - American South Philadelphia neighborhoods as the cops themselves.

And yes, it's also true that many of us (at least those of us who are white and middle - class) are a bit self - absorbed or extremely focused on our careers (we're the «third waver» feminists, and many of us from Day One saw our lives as defined by our work.

I would be Alf Tupper from The Tough of the Track - he is a working class hero who ate fi sh and chips on the way to the White City where he took on and beat the world.

In Britain the shift from a northern - based industrial economy, with a manual, unionised working class, to a consumer - orientated, white - collar service economy increasingly concentrated in the south east of England might very well have occurred whoever was prime minister.

«Also the kind of voters he appeals to — white, working - class, many Catholic voters, not college educated — are just the voters Mitt Romney must have to try to pull the election away from Barack Obama.

As I wrote before the election, speaking with Americans gave me the impression that voter turnout could put Trump in the White House; it seemed that an increase in white, working class Republican votes together with a decrease in Democrat voters from parts of President Obama's support base could tip the result Trump'sWhite House; it seemed that an increase in white, working class Republican votes together with a decrease in Democrat voters from parts of President Obama's support base could tip the result Trump'swhite, working class Republican votes together with a decrease in Democrat voters from parts of President Obama's support base could tip the result Trump's way.

During his three terms as governor, the former minor league baseball player from Queens championed the working class, reproached Ronald Reagan and flirted — repeatedly — with a run for the White House.

The recent book Revolt on the Right (co-written by Robert Ford) showed that Ukip draw their support from a very clear demographic: the «left - behind» electorate of older, working - class white voters with few educational qualifications.

I play that back and think, «I'm a woman, I'm not white, I'm from an urban area, I'm from the North, I'm working class - I kind of fit the bill.

White men from the working class are not — by a long stretch — ubiquitous in the elite.

Speaking from the Midlands, where the Tories became the biggest party in Walsall and made gains in Dudley, Jess Phillips, the MP for Birmingham Yardley, said the party has to address issues of concern for white working - class voters in industrial areas who appear to have switched from Ukip to the Tories.

They are exploiting alienation from Westminster politics, particularly among the white working class.

Like Sandberg's breakout work, which has been criticized for minimizing the barriers women in the workforce face — especially women of races, classes and sexualities that differ from its wealthy, white, cis author — the tips provided do seem to be geared towards «employable,» educated women.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

Born into rural poverty and servitude, Gaines manages, through diligent work and an ingratiating manner towards white folk, to move from a small - town inn to a high - class hotel in Washington, DC, where he comes to the notice of a White House staff recruwhite folk, to move from a small - town inn to a high - class hotel in Washington, DC, where he comes to the notice of a White House staff recruWhite House staff recruiter.

The way she holds a spoon as she eats cereal with such white - knuckled intensity you'd think it was her last meal; the angle of her jaw when she steps onto the ice, facing judges she knows loathe the transparency of her working - class background; and the tender hurt in her eyes when she confronts a judge in the parking lot about her score, and learns that no matter her skill, her inability to live up to the proper, soft standard for women in figure skating would bar her from the adoration she yearned for.

Joel Edgerton stars in this quiet, restrained real - life drama from director Jeff Nichols as Richard Loving, an ordinary working - class white man who found himself at the centre of a legal storm when he married his African American wife, Mildred (Ruth Negga), in 1950s Virginia.

People from rich households are more likely to reach the most prestigious institutions, white working - class boys rarely make it to higher education and there is a big black attainment gap.

Bangladeshi, Indian, black African and Pakistani pupils from poorer homes were also found to perform «well above» the national average, while white working class boys achieve the lowest grades at GCSE of any main ethnic group.

Today's research tells us two new things: that underrepresentation is significantly higher for white and black working class children than it is for those from Chinese and other Asian communities.

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.»

Report from King's College London examines why so few white working class boys go on to higher education and how this can be addressed.

One tweet read: «70 % of white working class boys from grammars go to uni vs 54 % from comprehensives.

Chinese pupils from disadvantaged homes are almost three times as likely as white working class pupils to get five good GCSEs, according to new analysis published by the Sutton Trust today.

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That's far from conclusive, precisely because few choice programs have been designed for — or located in — the kinds of white working - class communities that Charles Murray dubbed «Fishtown.»

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.

The government statistics watchdog has criticised a tweet from the Department for Education that claimed «white working class boys» performed better in grammar schools than in comprehensives.

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.

«Today's research tells us two new things: that under - representation is significantly higher for white and black working class children than it is for those from Chinese and other Asian communities.

It will hit home for readers from blue collar working - class families, white collar executive types and no - collar millennials, as all readers will enjoy learning and experiencing this iconic facet of American life.

My Aunty Eleanor just got a nearly new white Mercedes - Benz CL - Class CL63 AMG just by working from a home pc.

The Adventures of a Photographer comprises works from the last twelve years: dreamlike landscapes, cityscapes and industrial nightscapes saturated with intense colour along with carefully executed black and white images of people and interiors such as her renowned portraits of Indian upper - middle - class families and her latest project File Room.

The pair became friends — both came from working - class Yorkshire families - and paying by standing order, Hirst bought scores of Hoylands that fizz and seduce on Newport Street's vast white walls.

Born into a white working - class Afrikaans family at the height of apartheid, Geers ran away from home at 15 and later changed his name and date of birth, rejecting his roots and reclaiming his identity.

Recycling Warhol's car crash paintings from the Pop artist's «Death and Disaster» series, which in turn were appropriated from photographs of fatal accidents in newspapers, Turk swaps Warhol's American car with a white van, a symbol of a certain British white working class, now dying its own kind of slow death as the demand for blue - collar labor begins to diminish.

«So this is the second show [at David Zwirner London]-- and I've always been fascinated by Britain for several reasons, for example it is one of the last «class societies» — although I don't know how long it will still go on — but I once tackled that subject in a small show, the first white cube show that I did called «Spelndid Isolation», and one of the portraits in that show was also based on Henry Draper [American doctor, amateur astronomer, and pioneer of astrophotography]-- these three works in front of you [portraits: «William Robertson», 2014, «John Robison», 2014, and «John Playfair», 2014] are derived from the paintings in the professors room at University of Edinburgh.

Examples from the exhibition include: William Moore McCulloch, who worked tirelessly for equal rights at the risk of political suicide and was recognized by President Kennedy for his important influence in passing the Civil Rights Act; Edward Brooke, one of the first Republicans to call on President Nixon to resign in light of the Watergate scandal; Mose Wright, who in 1955 testified at the trial of the men who brutally abducted, tortured, and murdered his great nephew, Emmett Till, for allegedly whistling at a white woman; and Lois Jenson, a Minnesota miner who, in 1988, filed Lois E. Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co. and won the first class - action sexual harassment lawsuit in the United States.

Findings include the following: «Women, people from working - class backgrounds, and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) workers all face significant exclusions from an industry which is over-represented by upper middle - class white men.

Black, Jewish and indigenous white working - class pugilists moved in the same circles as the European elite; and ladies of noble birth rubbed shoulders with the young women from the other side of the social divide; each seeking fame or the means to a living and a secure future.

This, by the way, stands in direct contrast to the American term «middle class», which in English terms would cover a broad spread of society from working families through white collar and some professionals.