Sentences with phrase «middle class expectations»

It was also noted that the choice system was developed on «middle class expectations, but applied to a system comprised primarily of working class and poor families of color,» (Pérez, 2011).

It was also noted that the choice system was developed on «middle class expectations, but applied to a system comprised primarily of working class and poor families of color,»

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Meanwhile, Hong Kong's Cheng Yu - tung has spent $ 570 million on five luxe properties — part of what some industry experts hypothesize will become a trend among wealthy Asians in expectation of the continent's middle class embracing global travel.

Vicky, 38, was never homeless, but her customary middle - class lifestyle and expectations vanished when she and her husband divorced.

The answer, of course, has been that poor people must be raised from poverty and that the expectations of middle class people for the good things of life must be met.

So when middle - class women in mid-20th-century America felt restricted and stressed by society's expectations, was it any wonder that the era of the problem that had no name became the era of the «mother's little helper»?

They worry that they won't be able to sustain a middle - class lifestyle or meet middle - class expectations for their children's education or their own retirement years.

requires as its first premise great wealth and even greater expectations — conditions that for the American educated middle class came to be ever more taken for granted as the postwar years wore on.

As the middle class continues to grow in emerging markets, their drinking expectations change and they want a good cup of coffee, Senior Vice President and General Manager, International Division Brian Wisniewski says.

It's dangerous to view the expectations of less - privileged single moms through the myopic expectations of the middle class.

In addition, middle - class mothers reported being torn between their desire to spend quality time with their children and the expectation that they needed to provide the children with a home - cooked meal.

Middle - and upper - middle class people, as a result, express high expectations for their marriages, centering on self - fulfillment, deeply engaged parenting by both parents, and psycho - emotional awarMiddle - and upper - middle class people, as a result, express high expectations for their marriages, centering on self - fulfillment, deeply engaged parenting by both parents, and psycho - emotional awarmiddle class people, as a result, express high expectations for their marriages, centering on self - fulfillment, deeply engaged parenting by both parents, and psycho - emotional awareness.

Due to the cultural expectations for a «respectable» mourner, middle - and upper - class Victorian women felt obligated to wear an uncomfortable, unhealthy piece of clothing, such that the death of a loved one could cause a woman to risk her own health.

The film's infinitely more interesting questions do not have to do with John's expedition to emotional health, but its occasional observations regarding gendered expectations and desires, particularly within the confines of middle class «happy endings.»

However, any such expectations were confounded by Winterbottom's creation of a work that challenged generic norms and tested the boundaries of the content deemed acceptable for the middle - aged middle class audiences that are the genre's mainstay.

As one of a few minority boys in his class, his mother was astonished that even black middle class families must find ways to navigate around the low expectations some may have of their students.

Still, this blend of devoted all - around instructors, rigorous expectations, and a paternalistic education culture was not confined to upper - middle - class kids in elite prep schools.

After interviewing more than 50 of these gentrifiers about their school - choice process, I concluded that it is the substantive differences in parenting styles between the white, upper - middle - class parents and the nonwhite, less - affluent parents that are hindering school integration, as these parenting styles directly affect school culture and expectations.

There are sets of expectations, habits, modes of behavior that middle class people take for granted, which are conducive to learning.

Unfair Expectations: A Pilot Study of Middle School Students» Comparisons of Gifted and Regular Classes.

They wanted their children to be high achievers, but had a much lower expectation than middle - class families that they would be able to «achieve their goals».

Above all, weakening the disciplinary expectations that prevail in middle - class schools threatens to compromise the quality of schools through its negative effects on teachers.

The hope is that students will learn new behaviors that are more in keeping with middle - and upper - class expectations and that will foster and enhance their academic progress and success.

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.

For parents — especially black, Latino, and Asian families who are joining the middle class for the first time and moving into suburbia — the importance of knowing how schools actually handle students worst - served by American public education (including low expectations) is critical to doing all they can to keep their youngsters out of the economic and social abyss.

Posey - Maddox would cite this disparity in funding as one of the ways in which white middle - class and upper - class parent involvement and fundraising in «recreate new patterns of inequality within schools» (92 - 3) because they create new norms and expectations that are exclusive of low - income and minority parents.

All of the main drivers of what could improve matters for the middle class are outside the power of any individual government, so plan your own situation accordingly and adjust your economic expectations down.

Going against the expectations of her middle - class Berlin upbringing at the beginning of the 20th century, Anni Albers, born Annelise Elsa Frieda Fleischmann, instead enrolled at the influential Bauhaus art school in 1922.

She also began to feel constrained by the expectations of a middle class domestic life.