Sentences with phrase «middle class bias»

Experience suggests that there is both a male as well as middle class bias to the background of these litigants.

Not exact matches

Studies have also shown that most of the common intelligence tests have a social class bias; the vocabulary and thought patterns used in them generally follow a middle class pattern, thus putting the socially and economically more privileged in a preferential position.

As a white, Western, middle - class woman, I enjoy some privileges that others do not, and I am often blinded by my own cultural assumptions and biases.

Only one black was among the 37 university presidents who framed the legislation, and representatives of predominantly black schools were incensed by the weight given to the standardized tests, which have been widely and persuasively attacked as culturally biased in favor of white, middle - class youngsters.

It is not «biased» to tell women that as a low risk, middle class white woman, if they opt to have their full term, singleton baby at home with a CPM, using MANA's own statistics, their baby is almost 5 times more likely to die than if they give birth in the hospital.

The group's members — ranging from the NAACP to developer heavyweights including the Durst Organization, RXR Realty and Related Companies — filed a lawsuit in state Supreme Court claiming NYC's property tax system is racially biased and tipped in favor of affluent homeowners at the expense of working - and middle - class residents.

A coalition of landlords and organizations is suing the city under the banner of Tax Equity Now NY in a class - action suit that claims the city's property tax system is racially biased and favors the rich over the working - and middle - class.

Many tests are the product of middle - class, middle - brow, middle - aged, middle Americans and may not be appropriate for people from other groups, leading to the charge that personality tests are biased in favour of the white, middle - class males.

While criticisms against Anderson are often levelled against his upper middle - class bias and his man - child protagonists, his ninth feature Isle of Dogs has awakened a familiar debate over the responsibility of representation and cultural appropriation which has engulfed discussions of the film since its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year.

Given that a majority of teachers hail from a middle class European - American background, the biggest obstacle to successful culturally responsive instruction for most educators is disposing of their own cultural biases and learning about the backgrounds of the students that they will be teaching.

These tests are known to be culturally and linguistically biased in favour of English speaking, middle / upper class students of North American background.

However, in big cities where the economic recovery has been strongest, property values have soared — supercharged by rock - bottom mortgage rates and biases in Dodd - Frank regulations that push banks toward lending to the upper - middle class and wealthy.

A segment of the Board of Trustees, many of whom resigned going back to 2008, the last bunch of which has resigned in June 2015, had an ideological bias against giving merit scholarships to children of the middle class, a bias that conveniently covered up their own failures of duties as trustees.

There has long been a bias towards white middle class recruits etc, and frankly it is not going to go away.