Sentences with phrase «middle class is taught»

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By 1919, the self - taught pioneer with an eighth - grade education was producing more than half the cars in the U.S.. By lowering the cost of the automobile — eventually to $ 350 — he made cars part of the fabric of middle class America.

If you were raised middle - class or poor, chances are that you were not taught the fundamentals of finance.

Much of what Ramsey teaches is sound, helpful advice, particularly for middle - class Americans struggling with mounting credit card bills.

One might think that our white, upper - middle - class, nothing - but - the - best youngsters would respond positively to such concepts as «fairness» and «egalitarianism» — but apparently the best lesson we parents taught them was how to say No.

The first classes in pastoral psychology were taught in those more progressive and liberal seminaries where both the professors and the students espoused middle - class attitudes and values.

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.

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.

The entire Middle Ages, when religion ruled the modern world, is taught in history classes.

At that time waves of new immigrants were arriving in the cities of North America, and etiquette books emerged which taught these newcomers, who would become middle class citizens, how to avoid misbehaving in public.

series St. Joseph Church History Dover's Calligraphy A to Z, because I'm hoping that this is how you improve handwriting in a middle - schooler Henle Latin 1, for a class our priest teaches at church Literature «Across the Curriculum,» as they say: Henri Fabre's Book of Insects King Solomon's Ring, by Konrad Lorenz Sun Slower, Sun Faster: Meriol Trevor Red Hugh, Prince of Donegal: Robert L. Reilly Come Rack!

When I attend weddings, I'm not provided with the opportunity to talk about the really exciting ways that God's moving and using me — through my Master's degree classes, or the research project I'm wading through writing, or the middle school and high school girls Sunday school class I'm privileged to teach, or the fun trips I'm taking and the new people I'm meeting.

Syrian chef and author, Jennifer Abadi is teaching a 2 part vegetarian class focusing on the flavor packed regions of the Near and Middle East.

Larry Bird chose my high school to do his student teaching after the ISU Sycamores run to the NCAA championship game and several of us from orchestra kids got to shoot around with him at what would have been our fourth hour orchestra class which was delayed half an hour for one semester while the teacher had younger students from the new middle school built together with the high.

Often people are better at explaining one on one because you can learn exactly what the other person does or does not understand instead of teaching to the top / middle / bottom of the class.

I come from a great middle class family who taught me about honesty, affection, laughter and the overall importance of being good to others and yourself.

she volleys back, reconfirming all we've been taught about middle class French attitudes towards marital affairs.

After taking an EEE class on culturally reflective instruction, Randy Grove, a white middle school technology teacher, was motivated to substitute more culturally relevant images in a lesson he'd taught for years on forms of shelter.

Some of the most successful anti-poverty initiatives, like the Harlem Children's Zone or the KIPP schools, are designed around the premise that children raised in concentrated poverty need to be taught middle class norms.

Without grouping, teachers are doomed to homogenised classes where, according to research, they are more likely to teach to the middle.

The power of middle - and upper - middle - class families to exercise control over how and what their children are taught is one example.

Without grouping ~ some argue ~ teachers are forced to teach in the middle to the whole class.

Suppose you knew there was something you could teach kids that, if it were learned and followed, would give them a 98 percent chance of breaking out of poverty and into the middle class.

Providing students with opportunities to teach each other — as this middle school student does in his science class — is one of many assessment techniques used at New York City's School of the Future.

The latter may be influenced by students» homes and neighborhoods and may give teachers in middle - class suburban communities an advantage over those teaching in less advantaged communities.

Knowing that the teachers who were going to teach the supplemental classes were the most qualified to develop the curriculum, the middle school coordinator advocated for the school to give the teachers the time, resources, and a place to work together.

Teachers have reduced time to teach, are forced to teach many remedial courses, and generally seek to leave; middle - class parents of all races do the same.

If I were still teaching in a middle school language arts classroom, I would definitely have a LibraryThing account for my class as a place for students to discuss the books they're reading.

Probably the most thought - provoking portion of Professor Wax's essay is her discussion of how both models — no - excuses and income mixing — «assume that, to succeed in school and in life, poor children need to be taught bourgeois, middle - class values — and socialized away from their culture of birth.»

I could see how many «one - size - fits - all» programs there were, and worried that these would result in teachers teaching to the middle of the class - not stretching children, and also leaving other behind.

When Shoemaker was teaching middle school science and social studies classes, her students wanted to know why gadgets use different kinds of batteries, so she created what she thought would be a quick - and - easy project: She put together an Excel spreadsheet of battery data and asked students to create a graphic that visually represented the information.

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.

Savoie has been a twelve - year math mentor at the middle school level and has taught Junior Achievement to third grade classes.

And in suburban schools nearly a third of lower income and nearly two - thirds of middle class White students are taught to read proficiently.

Even middle class Black students are denied a meaningful education in the state's urban schools: Just 12 percent of them are taught to read at grade level in eighth grade.

Given that a majority of teachers hail from a middle class European - American background, the biggest obstacle to successful culturally responsive instruction for most educators is disposing of their own cultural biases and learning about the backgrounds of the students that they will be teaching.

In Teaching Middle School Social Studies III, Ali Brown — director of history achievement for the Achievement First schools — asked her class to write an «essential question» that would frame a unit they were soon to teach on the American Revolution.

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.

Examples of the schools students can «choose» include: a Milwaukee school that accepted $ 2.3 million of taxpayer funded vouchers but abruptly closed in the middle of the school year; a school in Florida where classes were held in public parks once the school was declared unfit by the fire marshall; or hundreds of schools that teach creationism in science classrooms.

Chadwick said the increase in poverty and the erosion of the middle class, particularly since the 2008 recession, are making it harder to teach reading.

Poor children were, predictably, much more likely than middle - class or affluent children to be taught by unqualified teachers.

Neither middle class or poor parents should have fewer or no choices in the array of schools whose teaching and curricula are critical to the futures of their children and communities, than in restaurants to which they should never have to go.

Most of his experience is at the middle school level, but he has also taught demonstration classes at the elementary and senior high school level.

In the middle schools, the 60 6th, 57 7th, and 59 8th grade teachers were all math specialists and implemented the intervention in each mathematics classes that they taught.

Basing teacher evaluations on student test growth, he added, voicing a widespread concern, is «absolutely absurd,» and «gives those teaching in middle class neighborhoods a huge, huge advantage.»

Teaching, at least in major cities, is also a profession in which minorities are heavily represented; when reformers argue that we need to take down teachers unions to give more opportunity to minority youth, the argument veers perilously close to «We need to destroy the black middle class in order to save it.»

Black teachers had always been a bulwark of the middle class — by taking away the opportunity to teach in their community, you remove a proven route out of poverty.

Just as these teachers would be entering their peak years of effectiveness, all too frequently they are leaving the teaching profession, or more infrequently, leaving Wisconsin to teach in other states where teachers are not bashed 24/7 and still have the opportunity to earn compensation that keeps them in the middle class.

I am a Media Specialist in a middle school that due to class sizes and mis - managed districting has to teach three regular classes a day + continue to care for the media center + handle when classes visit the media center DURING my class + all the day to day technology stuff... [More]

I have a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from The John's Hopkins School of Medicine, am Nationally Board Certified in mathematics, and teach math to mainly 7th grade students in a middle class neighborhood.

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