Sentences with phrase «middle class community»

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.

Your services enlighten me on how to properly vet great homes in middle class communities below $ 30 / $ 50k....

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

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton has said majority - minority Bronx has «the biggest problem» with the drug, but heroin has impacted many white and middle class communities like the one the governor visited today.

Tracking is more prevalent in suburban middle class communities and in schools serving white and Asian students and less prevalent in urban schools and schools serving predominantly black, Hispanic, or disadvantaged populations.

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

The stereotypical and demeaning undertone that American citizens who live in what's identified as lower or middle class communities still exists in education.

Poor neighborhoods are poor in large part because there are no good jobs for the folks who live there — cf William Julius Wilson — and no services that middle class communities take for granted.

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

«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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Construction and healthcare are the largest industries within Rosedale, a middle class community.

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.