Sentences with phrase «middle class graduates»

David Miliband has been applauded by sections of the liberal press — most notably Martin Kettle in The Guardian — essentially for acknowledging the bleeding obvious; that the parties of the European Left are losing three main groups of voters; working class voters in insecure jobs who are fearful of migrant labour; middle income voters, who are scared of losing their standard of living, and younger middle class graduates who are alienated by the compromises of power.

Basically the concern is that there are too many white middle class graduates who don't represent the community as a whole.

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What's more: «Income levels will match the middle - class college graduates that work 50 hours a week and do overtime until they die,» he says.

While he graduated in the middle of his class, Abdullah's extracurricular activities meant his CV could put any honour's student's to shame.

«This center will create great middle - class jobs for Canadians, new opportunities for recent university graduates, and further position Canada as a global hub for innovation,» the blog quoted Trudeau as saying.

With the cancellation of the health care levy (which it should be pointed out was graduated and not a flat amount like the old premium), and the NDP tax increases kicking in at 130K and not 100K like the Prentice budget, the NDP has made sure the upper middle class (and some of the upper class) are paying less taxes than under Prentice's budget.

i am christian, but i'm also a college graduate and upper middle class and all the worldly things i have cause me to fail to be the person God wants me to be sometimes.

My own experience in teaching religion and theology to middle - and upper - middle - class undergraduates and graduate students in America for the past decade or so certainly suggests that this way of thinking about religion fits neatly with a strong tendency toward the kind of knee - jerk relativism that is also widespread among those in the same social strata.

I learned that the congregation is all white, largely middle class, politically conservative, and has few college graduates.

Ron Haskins of the Economic Mobility Project puts it this way: «If young people do three things — graduate from high school, get a job, and get married and wait until they're 21 before having a baby — they have an almost 75 percent chance of making it into the middle class.»

The best friends that capitalism has in this country today are the antitrust laws, the graduated income tax, the inheritance taxes, the social security program, and all the other legislation that has tempered the capitalist system, spread the wealth, provided for adequate public services, and created the great middle class that makes the American economy strong.

My gay child has a strong father, a two parent household, a upper middle class income, both college graduates, went to church, had a supportive family life, engaged in sports, school activities and I think someone needs to teach you about what the real Jesus would have done.

They are also more likely to be graduates (47 per cent), Guardian readers (28 per cent), and only the Conservatives are more likely to have supporters who see themselves as middle class.

At the same time middle class earners, who make from $ 40,000 to $ 300,000 a year, will see their tax brackets lowered slightly, at a graduate rate.

These are children of school teachers, nurses, administrative grade civil service jobs and high level technicians — jobs which did not require a degree 20 to 30 years ago but which are now regarded as graduate or middle class jobs.

He stated: «The worrying truth is that Momentum is actually a middle - class movement exploiting the alienation now felt by university graduates, the public sector, remainers and metropolitan voters.

The occasion for my visit was a reunion of Global Tech's first class of eighth - graders, who were now, four years after their middle - school commencement, graduating from high school.

But although having a middle class background makes it more likely that someone had gone to university, Dr Reeves's findings showed that they were no more likely to take part in arts after graduating than were working class students.

Graduate students visit science classes in high schools and middle schools in the Greater Boston area with a view to demystifying chemistry through hands - on experiments.

This is a 90's inspired collection and I spent my 90's in middle school and high school pretty much, so I appreciate the theme (I graduated class of 2000) Let's take a look!

The subject — a disastrous honeymoon on the Dorset coast in 1962 — can only be explained by digging into the backgrounds of Florence (Saoirse Ronan), a bright, rebellious violinist from upper - middle - class parents (Samuel West, Emily Watson), and Edward (Billy Howle), an earnest history graduate snootily regarded by his in - laws as a country bumpkin.

Born in the age of abundance, repulsed by middle - class comfort and complacency, the 22 - year - old Emory graduate staged a personal revolt.

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For many, Lady Bird signified something meaningful and universal for those who grew up in white middle class suburbs and longed for culture anywhere, or to find some sort of foothold as an adult — it reminded me much more of The Graduate than it did The 400 Blows.

Andrew Weiss was walking in the halls of his Miami middle school among hundreds of preteens rushing to class when Harvard Graduate School of Education dean Kathleen McCartney called to let him know he was an Urban Scholar Fellow.

Bennet Copes With Death, Roof Woes Just two weeks into the school year, Bennet Middle School staff and students found themselves mourning the brutal death of a recent graduate, and shifting students and classes after another section of ceiling collapsed.

How to Raise More Grateful Children (Wall Street Journal) «In some communities, specifically among the white middle and upper - middle class, there's good reason to believe that kids are less grateful than in the past,» says psychologist Richard Weissbourd, faculty director of the Making Caring Common initiative at Harvard's Graduate School of Education.

Donaldson says that TFA is often looked at like a «volunteer experience for upper, middle - class college graduates at the expense of working class children.»

The scholarship was available to students from low - and middle - income families who finished in the top 10 percent of their graduating classes and enrolled at a college in Washington State.

Needham High School's seniors, mostly from upper - middle - class families, were graduating without knowing the parts of speech or parts of a sentence.

First, the technological changes and globalization that have fueled inequality have also increased the skills required for good jobs — which means that schools need to teach higher - level skills if their graduates are to secure jobs that pay middle - class wages.

Such leaders should say to themselves: I know I don't have direct leverage after these kids graduate, but am I doing everything I can during the four or eight or twelve years when I do have some influence to prepare them for the leap into adulthood and — let us hope — the middle class?

Over time, KIPP might learn what, exactly, it takes to make their graduates as successful as their middle - class peers.

Just two weeks into the school year, Bennet Middle School staff and students found themselves mourning the brutal death of a recent graduate, and shifting students and classes after another section of ceiling collapsed.

Third, I'd throw in student loan — forgiveness plans, which are likely to disproportionately benefit upper - middle - class families who borrow heavily to attend graduate school.

I was observing a class called Designing Assessments at the new Relay Graduate School of Education when a student asked if it was OK to rework questions from a teachers» guide to fit the English lesson she was teaching in a Brooklyn middle school that week.

Mr Fleck said that while independent schools had been successful in getting pupils into «middle - class professions accessed through Russell Group universities», the opportunities available to graduates in those areas was decreasing.

Once both of its 5 - 8 middle schools are ready to graduate a class, Valor plans to start a high school.

Brooks and Reginald Wright Jr., 20, of Gary, are on track to be part of Gary Middle College's first graduating class on June 10.

Beyond the degree Leschly's goal is 75 % graduates obtaining middle class employment with starting salary of at least $ 35,000 with benefits.

For a bill that the G.O.P. is trying to market as a «boon» to the middle class, the House bill does not just tax graduate student tuition waivers, but also it takes aim at tuition benefits for higher education employees and their children.

According to O'Farrell High School Principal Brian Rainey, the school started as a middle school and has added a high school grade level each year — next school year will be the first year that O'Farrell will have a graduating senior class.

The upper and middle class parents know their public schools are good — many of them graduated from schools just like them.

Broadly speaking, the idea is that if more kids graduate from high school, and achieve higher scores on standardized tests, then more young people are likely to go to college, and, in turn, land jobs that can secure them spots in the middle class.

Just 32 percent of Carmel's high school graduates in 2011 on free lunch programs (and 20 percent of those on reduced - lunch programs) took an Advanced Placement exam, versus 55.3 percent of middle class peers did so; a mere 26.5 percent of Hamilton Southeastern's high school graduates on free lunch (and 32 percent of reduced - lunch graduates) took AP exams, versus 73.5 percent of middle - class peers.

«Helicopter parents» may be the single biggest cause of the downfall of middle - class schools — we know the pathology leading to problems in urban areas, but to see the middle - class graduating without the knowledge necessary even to vote wisely is a sin.

Just 15.6 percent of Westfield - Washington's graduates on free lunch (along with half of reduced - lunch peers) took an AP exam, versus 61.7 percent of middle class peers.

While the federal No Child Left Behind law «shined a spotlight» on the needs of the most disadvantaged students, says Petrilli, «let's not overlook their slightly less disadvantaged peers — the boys and girls who come from low - income but perhaps not as dysfunctional homes and who aspire to graduate from college and enter the middle class.»

It is a fascinating story — first, of how an upper - middle - class Smith graduate ended up in prison in the first place (it was for a 10 - year - old money laundering crime), and then, how she fared in the federal correctional facility in Danbury, Connecticut.

Mildred Jarrett began in art classes at age 15, and continued her education at The University of Tennessee, Middle Tennessee State University and Volunteer State Community College, then graduated with an associate of fine arts from Watkins College of Art and Design.