Sentences with phrase «lower middle class kids»

Most immigrant and lower middle class kids need this assistance in every high school.

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Addressing the high cost of diapers for low - income families can help to take one more burden off those families as they strive to reach the middle class, and give the next generation the great start in life that all kids deserve.

When the reich wing blowhard teacher - haters are all laid off from their jobs due to the contraction of the economy, the loss off the middle class consumer base and record small business failures, when their kids have to move in with them through their 20s and 30s because their only career paths go through low - wage positions at MacDonald's and Wal - Mart, and when all the good teachers find jobs in Europe, Asia and places like Dubai, maybe they'll be satisfied.

The lower - class kids do better on standardized tests and come up close to the middle - class kids, and all the kids do better on things like intellectual self - confidence, creativity, problem - solving, teamwork, collaboration, tolerance, empathy.

She is one of the poorest kids in a student body drawn mostly from the upper - middle class but finds friendship with an overweight girl even lower than her on the economic ladder.

Nearly every subgroup — ethnic minorities, rich kids, poor kids, middle class kids, top students, average students, low - ranked students — held steady or improved during those years.

These are the kids whose fathers may be incarcerated, whose mothers may be working long hours at low - wage jobs, who live in troubled neighborhoods with little to occupy them in their free time, and whose parents lack the connections and knowledge needed to put them on a path to the middle class.

College might catapult prepared low - income kids into the middle class in one fell swoop, but using high - quality career and technical education to give low - income youngsters who are not ready for college a foothold on the ladder to success is a victory as well.

For states, that means closing gaps in achievement and making sure English - language learners and special education and low - income students have the same access to education as middle - class and upper - class college - bound kids.

There are myriad recommendations in the book, which Mike boils down into three major themes: First, balance our fixation on college completion with renewed attention to career and technical education; next prioritize the needs of «strivers» — the low - income students who are working hardest to make it to the middle class; finally, encourage all students to follow the «success sequence» — including delaying parenthood — as the surest means of avoiding pitfalls that push kids off the path to upward mobility.

Piney Branch Elementary serves an incredibly diverse group of 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders, from the children of übereducated white and black middle - class families, to poor immigrant children from Latin America, Ethiopia, and Eritrea, to low - income African American kids.

Given the same teachers, principal, building and school supplies, filling a school with upper middle class kids with involved parents will create a «good» school, while filling that same school with low income and minority kids with uneducated parents will probably create a «bad» school with low test scores, safety issues, and discipline problems.

The consequence for children whose parents can't afford $ 40,000 - a-year tuitions — lower and middle class kids — is of course terrible.

«Voucher programs largely help low - income middle - class kids — these are the kids that most need access» to quality education, Michelle Tigani, the communications director at the Center for Education Reform, previously told Business Insider.

«Voucher programs largely help low income middle class kids; these are the kids that most need access,» to quality education, she said.

And to what extend should charters focus exclusively on poor kids and low achievers versus serving a more diverse population, including gifted students and middle - class kids with specialized curricula?

«Charters want to reach kids of the greatest needs, but one of the best things you can do for low - income kids is give them the chance to go to middle - class schools,» he said.

The school districts in the country making the most progress with low - income students, places such as Tampa, Charlotte and Long Beach, have middle - class kids in the mix.

The Obama Administration's decision to allow states to implement supposedly «ambitious» yet «achievable» proficiency targets — usually with lower proficiency rates for poor and minority kids than for middle - class and white counterparts — allow districts and schools to do little to help those kids succeed.

He was wary of the idea that KIPP's aim was to instill in its students «middle - class values,» as though well - off kids had some depth of character that low - income students lacked.

Even though the benefit - cost ratio is about the same for preschool for both middle - class and low - income kids, a universal preschool program would still significantly redistribute income.

These estimated earnings effects, for both middle class and low - income kids, are that for each dollar invested in pre-K, the present value of future earnings for those kids increases by about $ 5.

This is a very favorable benefit - cost ratio for investing in both low - income and middle - class kids.

But time — along with the fact that half of all fourth - graders on free - and reduced - cost lunch in suburban schools are functionally illiterate — has proven that integration on its own doesn't deal with the systemic problems of low - quality teaching, shoddy curricula, lackluster leadership, and cultures of low expectations (especially for poor and minority kids) that plagues American public education even when those kids are put into suburban middle - class schools.

The average low - performing teacher in math in a Florida school serving mostly - middle class kids is just two - hundredths of a standard deviation better than an equally laggard peer in school serving poor kids, according to a 2010 study from the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research.

School choice is really a vehicle for the «less well off» (i.e. lower and middle classes) to get a better education for their kids.

all we want to do is lower our morgage payments so we do nt loose what we have its a mobile that sits on 14 acres i have acredit score of 501 my husband has a score of 580 and know one will help ya i maybe middle class who both of us work to support our kids and try to ive them a good life but if your not wealth and do nt hve a perfect credit score noone wants to help.

I am a low middle class blue collar worker, and i don't my kids to have to do some jobs i have done just to earn a paycheck.