Sentences with phrase «many middle class schools»

He is the author of four books: Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race and Democracy (Columbia University Press, 2007); All Together Now: Creating Middle Class Schools through Public School Choice (Brookings Institution Press, 2001); The Remedy: Class, Race, and Affirmative Action (Basic Books, 1996); and Broken Contract: A Memoir of Harvard Law School (Hill & Wang / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992.)

In many middle class schools classes that now require two teachers can be combined into a class only requiring one teacher.

Low - income students given a chance to attend middle class schools are as much as two years ahead of low - income students stuck in high - poverty schools on the National Assessment of Educational Progress in math.

Not as Good as You Think: The Myth of the Middle Class School is a documentary that shatters the myth that «good» schools located in «nice» neighborhoods are shielded from the education crisis that pervades schools in poor, urban areas.

I know of one middle class school system where the second tier system is run by an individual with experience as a correctional officer.

From a social perspective, having a device to text with is getting close to being essential in Canadian middle class schools.

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On the other hand, members of the middle class take jobs they don't enjoy «because they need the money, and they've been trained in school and conditioned by society to live in a linear thinking world that equates earning money with physical or mental effort.»

Years ago, he met a middle school student on a class tour through DC who was struggling with his stutter, and wrote him a letter: «You can beat it just like I did.

While some elementary and middle schools have started implementing coding classes, Fisher Price introduced a $ 50 toy this year to targeted towards a much younger demographic: preschoolers.

There was no better way to become a popular kid in school or to accomplish middle - class family peace and happiness than an afternoon at McDonald's.

Growing up in a middle - class family in Manhattan, Powers had the opportunity to attend Hunter College High School, a prestigious public school that counts Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan and Hamilton's Lin - Manuel Miranda as among its illustrious aSchool, a prestigious public school that counts Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan and Hamilton's Lin - Manuel Miranda as among its illustrious aschool that counts Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan and Hamilton's Lin - Manuel Miranda as among its illustrious alumni.

Detroit's property values fell, tax revenue dropped, police couldn't control a growing murder rate, and many middle - class blacks fled the city for safer suburbs with better schools.

I'm 13, live in an upper middle - class family, have good grades in school, and wan't to start planning out my future now.

I came from a middle class family and attended The College of William & Mary, a top state school with no rich uncle to help get me started.

So after real estate imploded and bottomed out, I bought a nice house in an upper middle class neighborhood with great schools.

At Westglades Middle School in 2013, he'd been cited numerous times for disrupting class, unruly behavior, insulting or profane language, profanity toward staff, disobedience and other rules violations, the records show.

Disciplinary reports obtained by the Herald show that at Westglades Middle School, which he attended in 2013, he'd been cited numerous times for disrupting class, unruly behavior, insulting or profane language, profanity toward staff, disobedience and other rules violations.

Guerra, Cruz's middle school classmate, would occasionally run into Cruz between classes at Stoneman Douglas and at the Dollar Tree, where Cruz worked as a cashier.

Ashley, a former middle school teacher, was introduced to Pure Barre by her friends who were always raving about how fun class was and how incredible the results were.

Cruz's school disciplinary record shows he was reprimanded many times since middle school for incidents that included bad language and disrupting class.

Both were middle class products of the English public school system and elite universities; both were journalist - adventurers, disillusioned socialists, contrarians, and iconoclasts.

Parochial schools are supported by church funds in addition to tuition, not tax dollars, providing in many areas a reasonable alternative for working class and middle class parishioners and removing these millions of students from the public education system paid for by taxpayers.

Recent polls consistently show that African - Americans, especially poorer, inner - city people and those with school - age children favor vouchers more than do middle - class whites.

So children like Pineapple are already one to three years behind middle - class children when they enter public school.

Creationism was born when a bunch of rednecks failed middle school science class, scratched their heads and went «Wait a minute, this don't make no sense!

Frank Riessman, The Culturally Deprived Child [New York: Harper, 1962]-RRB- This is why middle - class talk therapies are inadequate and why the poor may not do well in middle - class - oriented school systems which emphasize verbal skills, abstract reasoning, and knowledge for knowledge's sake.

But critics have accused faith schools of simply selecting the brightest children from the more middle - class, affluent families, which may be skewing their results.

George Gerbner «s research at the Annenberg School of Communication in Philadelphia tells us that in the TV world two - thirds to three - fourths of the important characters are male, American, middle class, unmarried, and in the prime of life — and they are the people who run the world.

He argues some well - off, middle - class families are «faking their faith» to get their kids into the best schools:

The position of the Diocese at Westminster appears to be based on the fear that a State School is becoming elitist and restricting its intake of pupils to a narrow middle class range.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

When you get to middle school you will learn that in your science class.

This contempt extends to even middle - class life in the public schools and so forth.

Meta - analyses also indicate that young people of low socioeconomic status benefit more from attending these schools than do students from the middle and upper classes.

When Shane was speaking of Psalm 139 and the «not so nice» part in the middle, I thought of my friend, M, who last week shared that one thing she doesn't like about church is that she has to go home on Sunday and correct the things her children have been mistaught in Sunday School class.

The Sunday School was started to provide Christian nurture and knowledge of the Bible for poor children who lacked the advantages of middle - class family life.

Ron Haskins of the Economic Mobility Project puts it this way: «If young people do three things — graduate from high school, get a job, and get married and wait until they're 21 before having a baby — they have an almost 75 percent chance of making it into the middle class.»

I remember taking comparative religion classes in school... albeit I did go to a catholic school and part of it was to show the differences, and I had the first such class whe I was in «middle school» 7th grade.

The principal effort in this area was the Sunday School Movement, founded in 1918 by Habib Jirjal, an educated layman of the middle class, who decided that the political and religious movements then current in Egypt did not serve Coptic interests.

After we finished the last pages of The Diary of Anne Frank in middle school, Mrs. Kelly informed the class that Anne and her sister died of typhus in a prison camp, thanks to Adolf Hitler.

My gay child has a strong father, a two parent household, a upper middle class income, both college graduates, went to church, had a supportive family life, engaged in sports, school activities and I think someone needs to teach you about what the real Jesus would have done.

The schools are good there, they said, which is true, and also a euphemism for an incalculable range of social and cultural benefits that flow from being raised in the upper middle class.

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When I attend weddings, I'm not provided with the opportunity to talk about the really exciting ways that God's moving and using me — through my Master's degree classes, or the research project I'm wading through writing, or the middle school and high school girls Sunday school class I'm privileged to teach, or the fun trips I'm taking and the new people I'm meeting.

In some cases, such as followers of Meher Baba, this has meant a return to school and the resumption of a normal middle - class career pattern.

As the oldest child in a stable middle class family, Luther endured a childhood of strict discipline at home, school and church that left him with a sense of inferiority, and emerged into university life at a time of great intellectual ferment that challenged the entire educational system as well as the corruptions of a politically powerful church.

O'Malley has been writing, not about college professors or committed adult Christians (or about those, like myself, who are faithful readers of First Things), but about teenagers» American high school students, primarily those from middle «class and affluent families, who are the objects of Catholic «catechesis.»

Middle School and High School classes would focus on training and equipping young people on how offenders think and act.

Thank you for this recipe — I made it for my middle daughter whose class was having king cake at school, and it was delicious and easy to make too!

This is a delicious treat that me and my class at Claremont Middle school are making for a party!