Sentences with phrase «middle class communities»

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It has been suggested that cultural ideals for thinness that exist in White middle and upper - middle class communities are in direct conflict with the normal increases in body fat that occur during puberty.

The other solution to integrating our schools is much more difficult, in that the backlash from white middle class communities could end political careers within and beyond our school system.

Too many schools serving middle class communities will continue to evade scrutiny, and to be held accountable, for coasting.

And in many middle - and upper - middle class communities, according to psychologist Richard Weissbourd, today's most «potent ingredient» is «achievement pressure» — the pressure to excel across academic subjects and a wide range of extracurriculars, culminating in the stress of putting together an impeccable college admissions package.

In the 2000s and ever since, prescription opioids and backyard - cooked methamphetamine's are devastating lives and families amongst rural, white, working and middle class communities.

I grew up in a middle class community where the men and women survived WW2 and through hard work bought their first home and raised a family.

While Harlem is one of the most reliable bases for Democratic votes in Manhattan, it's also a very traditional middle class community.

«I think we can turn Northern Manhattan into a middle class community,» he predicted.

This comment just in from Philip Jones, in response to the endlessly popular post, 21 Things That Will Become Obsolete in Education by 2020: «I teach social studies in a middle class community in southern Indiana.

«The data suggests that — despite what is arguably the most remarkable decade of academic progress of any school system in history — we haven't really seen much change in demand from middle class community to enroll their children in public schools,» Kleban said.

The data were collected from 506 (50 % female) middle school students from a predominately white, upper middle class community.

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As a former activist, she believes that it's hard to reach lower - income communities if you have a staff that's upper middle class.

John is the founder and general manager of #FotoNet, an internet café that provides IT services, internet access, and computer training to low - income and middle - class communities in the Dominican Republic.

To my mind, the boys - in - the - girls» - room message dramatizes something middle - class communities sense, which is that the entire LGBT project and allied movements undermine social norms for boys and girls and try to put in their place unworkable gender ideologies.

At the end of the day, the Elderly, the Middle Class, the Poor, the Hispanics, the Latinos, and the Gay and Lesbian Community understand one thing very clearly, the Republicans are interested in regaining power in Washington, and they will walk over anyone who gets in their way.

Women, men, children, unemployed people, excluded and oppressed people, workers, landless peasants, communities suffering from racism, impoverished city dwellers, indigenous peoples, students, intellectuals, migrants, small business people, outcasts, declining middle classes - citizens - are asserting their dignity, demanding respect for their human rights and natural heritages, and practising solidarity.

Those who choose this approach must beware lest they end up as self - centered and self - righteous communities of upper middle class people playing at being poor, preoccupied with their own problems and contributing little or nothing to helping others or to resolving the world's problems.

The booming neighbourhood attracted more middle - class families and became one of the biggest Christian communities in Iraq.

I'm sure that Muslim communities in places like NY find Dearborn Muslims to be pretty moderate and middle class.

This brief article will be my last on the subject — at least unless or until one word of gratitude for an unprecedented share of life's blessings, along with a promise to hold themselves to a standard worthy of respect, issues from the community of America's middle - class women.

As a result, when electoral politics enlarged the political community of India by bringing the groups other than the middle class into it, it produced popular leaders more inclined to the unrenewed traditions.

The tragedy of all this is compounded by the fact that most community mental health facilities are oriented to middle - class goals, vocabularies, patterns of problem solving and models of healing.

They will not be with you in Heaven of course, for Heaven is a Gated Community that is off - limits to middle - class losers, but they are useful in a democracy where the majority rules instead of Your Holy Upper Cclass losers, but they are useful in a democracy where the majority rules instead of Your Holy Upper ClassClass.

They had been at least minor movers and shakers in their communities, people who felt some responsibility for what went on around them largely because of a match between the moral teachings they grew up on in church and the possibilities inherent in their middle - class social roles.

A congregation of moderate size located in an upper - middle - class bedroom community in New England, Wiltshire offered the scholars a chance to demonstrate the range of insight that could be gained through the use of their specific disciplines in the service of congregational analysis.

To be sure, the Christian community to whom Paul wrote was not exactly the upper class of this metropolis; in all likelihood, its members were mostly what we would today call lower middle class.

But it's hard to cook up community from scratch in middle - class North America.

In consequence the new middle class has cultural clout enormously larger than one might expect from its relatively modest numbers and financial resources (the latter are considerable, but still modest when compared to the economic might of the business community).

Liberation theologians committed themselves from the beginning to «listening» to the poor and to organizing them (along with students, lawyers, journalists, and others of the middle class) in comunidades de base, or base communities.

Over a hundred new members, drawn from the community's transient, upwardly mobile, middle - class executives, joined the church each year.

The primary residents of these communities were middle class families where Mom stayed home and Dad commuted to work.

White middle - class folk especially value community for the personal nurture it promises us, while we ignore its challenge of political and economic justice.

That dynamism is not the dominant pattern in middle - class black churches is a virtually undisputed fact, empirically verifiable by any unbiased investigator in most communities where middle - class blacks practice religion.

The trouble with this diagnosis is that ever since Reconstruction black middle - class churches have neither intended nor pretended to be anything other than socialization centers, where charitable activities crowded out prophetic witness and community spirit (as the significant exceptions make perfectly clear).

10 It appears that there is a two-fold disintegration in the middle class: (1) custom disintegrates in the pursuit of individual ends, and (2) the general ideal disintegrates in its particularization, again by its application of a «finite» section of the community.

It examined its membership, too, and proudly reported — as the minutes note — «We are Protestant and Catholic, clergy and laity, black, white, Hispanic, poor and middle - class, old and young, and all residents of the community.»

But it has not yet opened itself up to the disturbing countertrends in the lower - class black community that not only conflict with bourgeois male and female stereotypes but also are alienated from middle - class values and the Christian identity as well.

Historic churches and individual historic leaders must adapt to the new reality of the religious field in Latin America: a market situation in which institutional loyalties are precarious, middle - class denominationalism is in decline and the Protestant community is overwhelmingly Pentecostal.

What Geoff says, and as I write in book, is that over the last 20, 25 years in the United States, there's been this big revolution in what we think in middle - class communities about parenting, that there's just this emphasis on the zero - to - three years that didn't used to exist before, and that information didn't really penetrate communities like Harlem.

Tough shows even the most naïve reader how difficult it is to grapple with the question of how to take an entire community of mostly disadvantaged children and mostly undereducated parents without financial resources and transform them — or at least the children as they grow — into fully functioning members of the middle class.

Public schools serve all students in a community: rich, poor, middle class, of various ethnicities, ability levels, health concerns, family backgrounds and more.

We are working with people from the community to provide safe, enriching, and engaging environments for children so they can develop just like their middle - class peers.

The researchers set out to look at the relationship between homework load and student well - being in the upper middle class advantaged communities (where median household income is more than $ 90,000, and 93 percent of students go to college) because it is there that homework is largely accepted as having value.

Paamonim is an organization, operating mainly in the national religious community, that helps middle class families manage their budgets and pay off debts.

«As an Assemblyman, Todd has proven that he will do whatever it takes to stand up for his community and fought to lower taxes for middle - class families.

The Republican budget cuts housing assistance, food stamps, heating projects, community development funds — all at the expense of the middle class and working families — while they cut taxes for the wealthiest Americans.

«On the strength of his record of delivering tax relief to middle - class families and small businesses, securing investments to create jobs in our community, and fighting to clean up Albany and give New Yorkers the government they deserve.

«Todd is a true public servant who grew up here in Nassau County and knows the issues that matter most to our communities, from helping Superstorm Sandy victims rebuild to holding the line on taxes for middle - class families.

The State Senate has turned its back on middle class values and the issues that matter most to our communities, and I look forward to advocating for investments in infrastructure, an increase in the minimum wage and much needed government reforms to clean up Albany.