Sentences with phrase «middle class gift»

She comes an upper - middle class gift thanks to Marlo's wealthy douchebag brother Craig (played with perfect upper class snobbery by Mark Duplass) as a «night nanny.»

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Three cohorts of men and women (268 socially advantaged Harvard men born about 1920, 456 socially disadvantaged inner - city men born about 1930, and 90 middle - class, intellectually gifted women born about 1910) have been followed continuously for six to eight decades.

Others exhibit an old Pentecostal style, including the wailing and crying that often accompany manifestations of the gifts in these settings (and that more sedate groups find embarrassing) Still others have assumed the style of middle - class charismatic churches that openly demonstrate some of the gifts without some of the older - style expressions.

She went into middle school being placed in all gifted classes.

It is about further entrenching middle class privilege which, ultimately, leaves clever but poor children more likely to be stuck with a second - best option, while their less bright but well - tutored peers are gifted a better education.

One of those who will cast a vote insists it's a gift for the very wealthy, while a Western New York Republican in the House says the data shows middle class families will enjoy tax relief.

Few have crafted stronger drama out of family conflict than A Separation director Asghar Farhadi, who apparently developed his gift for plumbing the crevices of middle - class Iranian life as early as 2006.

Sixth - grade teacher Diane Gilbert was curious about introducing Shakespeare to her gifted and talented class at Kelly Mill Middle School in Blythewood, South Carolina.

And to what extend should charters focus exclusively on poor kids and low achievers versus serving a more diverse population, including gifted students and middle - class kids with specialized curricula?

Excel would not be in the position it is today, with three best - in - class middle schools and a new high school, without the support of our hundreds of donors who make gifts of all sizes.

This private school choice is somewhat ironic, given that New York Public School officials originally established gifted and talented programs to help keep more white and middle - class families in public schools.

I grew up in an upper - middle class neighbourhood where the needs of the gifted weren't understood and my own school experiences were horrible.

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

(James J. Barta and Michael G. Allen); «Ideas and Programs To Assist in the Untracking of American Schools» (Howard D. Hill); «Providing Equity for All: Meeting the Needs of High - Ability Students» (Sally M. Reis); «Promoting Gifted Behavior in an Untracked Middle School Setting» (Thomas O. Erb et al.); «Untracking Your Middle School: Nine Tentative Steps toward Long - Term Success» (Paul S. George); «In the Meantime: Using a Dialectical Approach To Raise Levels of Intellectual Stimulation and Inquiry in Low - Track Classes» (Barbara G. Blackwell); «Synthesis of Research on Cooperative Learning» (Robert E. Slavin); «Incorporating Cooperation: Its Effects on Instruction» (Harbison Pool et al.); «Improving All Students» Achievement: Teaching Cognitive and Metacognitive Thinking Strategies» (Robert W. Warkentin and Dorothy A. Battle); «Integrating Diverse Learning Styles» (Dan W. Rea); «Reintegrating Schools for Success: Untracking across the United States» (Anne Wheelock); «Creatinga Nontraditional School in a Traditional Community» (Nancy B. Norton and Charlotte A. Jones); «Ungrouping Our Way: A Teacher's Story» (Daphrene Kathryn Sheppard); «Educating All Our Students: Success in Serving At - Risk Youth» (Edward B. Strauser and John J. Hobe); «Technology Education: A New Application of the Principles of Untracking at the Secondary Level» (N. Creighton Alexander); «Tracking and Research - Based Decisions: A Georgia School System's Dilemma» (Jane A. Page and Fred M. Page, Jr.); and «A Call to Action: The Time Has Come To Move beyond Tracking» (Harbison Pool and Jane A. Page).

Among 12 questions considered are the following: (1) Aren't some of the principles of middle level education, cooperative learning and whole class instruction in reading harmful from the standpoint of providing appropriate programs to gifted students?

Oakes (1992) noted, «Many elementary and middle schools have taken the position that well - designed heterogeneous classes can meet the needs of most intellectually gifted students.

In fact, gifted children, gifted people, occur in all sectors of the population, and occur more often in the larger middle and lower class sectors, than the supposedly privileged upper class described in The Bell Curve.

Middle school students are now grouped for core classes, and have a gifted education teacher teaching enriched, accelerated core content 8 hours per week.

While only some of Meredith's students want to join the academy debate team — which Meredith and Cammon principal Tamika Green proudly boast beat out several all - gifted debate teams from the district's more affluent middle schools — all of her students seemed excited about the class's projects.

Test results are also used to place students in programs such as honors classes in the middle and high schools, summer school, gifted and talented offerings and English language classes.

Therefore, if you're in an upper middle class (or higher) school, you will find that a larger percentage of the student body is gifted than you would find in a lower class school.

Special - progress classes were even more racially and academically segregated from other students than their contemporary version, «gifted and talented» programs that retain middle - class parents in the public - school system by separating their children from most low - income and minority - group peers.

The provincial teachers's association / union had managed to negotiate the disappearance / non-existence of giftedness, because it was unfair to other less able students, a result of the 1960s / 1970s policy of radical education «motifs» in the universities that were very much in vogue, especially the idea that gifted kids were simply the result of middle - class hot - house parenting.

There may be watered down gifted programs in the middle school while in the high schools there are honor classes.

The people advocating the loudest for gifted - education programs are typically middle - class white and Asian parents seeking to maximize advantages for their kids and others like them — which renders the whole project suspect for many advocates of the disadvantaged.

As a former eighth grade English teacher, he saw first - hand that many gifted students who hadn't been reclassified as proficient English speakers before middle school were sidetracked into remedial classes where they soon became bored, frustrated, and at higher risk of dropping out.

From the so - called gifted - and - talented programs that end up doing little to improve student achievement (and actually do more damage to all kids by continuing the rationing of education at the heart of the education crisis), to the evidence that suburban districts are hardly the bastions of high - quality education they proclaim themselves to be (and often, serve middle class white children as badly as those from poor and minority households), it is clear that the educational neglect and malpractice endemic within the nation's super-clusters of failure and mediocrity isn't just a problem for other people's children.

Raised in a middle - class, well - educated family in New Hampshire, Smiley became a superb college student, an engaging conversationalist, a gifted woodworker and a generous and loyal friend.

«It's pitched as a program for the middle class but in reality it's an expensive tax gift for the rich.»