Sentences with phrase «lower middle class background»

The other major «Raj» nostalgia of the 1980s was the television serialisation The Jewel in the Crown, in which the villain — Ronald Merrick — was depicted as a sadistic deviant who happened to come from a lower middle class background, was a grammar school boy and a closet homosexual as well.

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Arbitrary lower - class background (despite now being the epitome of middle - class)?

Those in opposition to free community college argue that beneficiaries end up coming from upper - middle class backgrounds rather than low - income households.

In a separate study Dr Mairead Dunne, lecturer in education at Sussex, led a project that analysed grouping practices in 168 primary and secondary schools and found that working - class pupils are more likely to be placed in lower sets than middle - class pupils who have the same test results, and that pupils from middle - class backgrounds more likely to be assigned to higher sets, irrespective of their prior attainment.

CHSA believes that greater support for these models at the federal, state, and local levels will significantly improve the secondary and postsecondary outcomes of students, particularly those from low - income and middle - class backgrounds.

CHSA believes that greater support for these models at the federal, state, and local levels will significantly improve the secondary and post secondary outcomes of students, particularly those from low - income and middle - class backgrounds.

CHSA advocates for greater support for these models at the federal, state, and local levels to significantly improve the secondary and post secondary outcomes of students, particularly those from low - income and middle - class backgrounds.

Families in these backgrounds also form social networks that are limited to similar black lower - middle class or working class families.

This study examined the role of socioeconomic status (SES) and the quality of the home environment of seventy - seven Chilean majority and Mapuche minority families from low and lower - middle - class backgrounds in explaining individual differences in vocabulary acquisition of their three - and - a-half-year-old children.

Variation in the backgrounds of families may result in lower reliability and validity of measures developed using samples of English - speaking, middle - class, white, and two - parent families.