Sentences with phrase «middle class reads»

«The middle class reads novels, tabloids, and entertainment magazines.»

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But, one thing you feel in Reading is that there are these middle class and working class white folks who feel very angry and are pointing to the Latino population for all their woes.

I gathered data for both groups regarding their careers / employment, the percentage born to wealth, poverty or the middle - class, spending habits, academic performance, education, perceptions of wealth / poverty, various health data, inherited money data, gambling habits, home ownership, car ownership, reading habits, relationship management, savings habits, self - improvement habits, time management habits, beliefs, vacation habits, volunteering habits, networking habits, voting habits and work - related data.

Any real estate agent who wants to work with upper middle class or... Continue reading >

The Finance Minister and Prime Minister seem to think that middle - class Canadians, or for that matter Canadians in general, actually read these documents.

I read these posts and can't help but think that most of you are very optimistic about the future of America and middle - class Americans.

But another reading seems equally plausible — that many sought to shore up their status as part of the «responsible middle - class» by underscoring the discrepancy between their own «fit» families and those of the underclass.

Continue reading «Meditation of a Middle - Aged, (Upper) Middle - Class, White, Liberal, Protestant Parent»

In its present manifestation, voluntary simplicity is a middle - class movement of well - educated people «who like to think and read, who look thoughtfully at every aspect of their lives and consider the consequences of their decisions.»

It's also a way of educating the middle class about the viewpoints of the poor, since middle - class folks buy these newspapers and like to read reviews.

Baptist, suburban, middle - class parish that bored me silly as soon as I was able to read and write.

According to a Bankers Life and Casualty Company survey, 70 % of middle - class boomers fear they won't have enough cash to last... [Read more...]

«If you've ever read Jonathan Kozol's work, Tough brings a similar ethnographic, journalistic, and humane, middle - class re-awakening to challenges we do not all share.

Similarly, in prior TLT posts you can read all about how my daughter, now in middle school, was last year regularly handed 12 oz cans of Coke and full - sized packages of gummi bears for good performance in a language class, and how my son was given a jumbo sized Hershey bar for winning a school lottery.

Parents who do have the time to read tend to be middle class and speak English.

«Tedisco helps donor get out of jail... but says «no» help for middle class,» read some of the ads, displaying the image of Murphy's opponent, Republican Jim Tedisco.

State senators in favor of this bill made a three - pronged argument: property taxes have become too burdensome for middle - class... (read more)

Continue reading «Max Chambers: To win, Cameron must make a game - changing offer to the young middle - classes»»

Superintendent Christopher Brown told his school board recently that the district would have to cut 62 full - and part - time positions, drop a year of middle school art and eliminate its seventh - grade reading program and high school Latin classes, among many other reductions.

A new mandate that will require New York public middle and high schools to implement sex education classes providing graphic details and descriptions of various sexual acts... Continue reading →

«Building on the innovative legacy of the New Deal, this report describes a far - reaching, two-fold agenda to tame the growth of wealth among the top one percent and establish rules and institutions that ensure security and opportunity for the middle class,» reads the document, which calls for the federal government to adopt several recommendations, including childcare subsidies and universal pre-K.

In Both the 92 and 2010 elections, there were bigger swings towards us from the middle class than the working class, for different reasons, maybe those who came to us in 92 were Ex SDP, voting for us after it's collapse, and the working class, were sticking too the Tories in Essex, as they hadn't lost so much under the recession, and weren't losing their jobs in the city, the way the middle class were, and read the Suns twaddle about labour saying they'd put the basic rate of tax, when we said we weren't going too.

«I read (Nick Clegg's interview) in the Guardian that we were going to look at middle class child benefit.

The state senator, whose turf covers not Maspeth but neighborhoods like Bayside and Whitestone, read a scripted speech that sounded like a laundry list of middle - class outer borough complaints against the present administration: from de Blasio's «narrow - minded anti-motorist» Vision Zero program, to his opposition to bringing the city into line with the rest of the state's two percent property tax cap, to his allegedly insufficient support for co-ops and small senior centers, to the influence of high - power political consultants at City Hall, to the lack of public transit options in the deepest reaches of the city (which the state controls), to his purported failure to shield small businesses from rent hikes, to — yes — his scrapped plans to convert the Holiday Inn into a homeless shelter.

Middle school students in a reading improvement class liked using e-readers for a variety or reasons, and felt their reading improved as a result.

For two months, 199 middle - schoolers in a reading improvement class in Texas had 15 to 25 minutes every day when they were free to read on the Kindle.

- Living in the middle - class area was associated with a 69 percent increased risk for nearsightedness, even after adjusting for other risk factors, such as time spent reading, outdoor activity and whether the student's parents wore glasses.

There's a lot of things I'm obsessed with at the moment: An afternoon green smoothie followed by an energizing yoga class Everything fall and everything pumpkin Wine - colored lipstick Reading creepy thrillers (I'm in the middle of this one right now and I can't put it down) Afternoon naps on Sundays Making apple cider vinegar and homemade candles (tutorials...

It could be because they are mostly cherry - picked group of citizens, middle - class to upper - middle - class, involved in sculpting, painting, dancing, yoga, reading, and taking long walks along the leafy roads in and about San Luis Obispo.

But star Amy Adams» role calls on her to spend a lot of time staring thoughtfully in the distance after reading a passage from her ex's tome, all while Ford piles on mean - spirited observations about the heroine's crumbling upper - middle - class lifestyle.

He has a kinship in this way with Deep Red's Marcus (a pianist), a man in a pursuit coded as feminine, and there's the intimation early on that the central tension of the film will again be a race between a masculine means of detection (effected (affected) by a woman, Rose, who reads a book about the Mothers as prologue to the film) and a feminine means of intuition (swooning Mark's maybe - encounter with the beautiful Mater Lachrymarum — the mother of tears — in the middle of a music class).

After reading the poem «My Mother Pieced Quilts,» a middle school girl might lead the class in celebrating the life of a family of migrant workers and the mother who makes their story a work of art by piecing together remnants from their past into quilts.

I'm in the middle of reading to my seventh - grade class the book Maniac Magee, by Jerry Spinelli.

Now I was supposed to be the person saying, «Don't shout out answers in the middle of class,» or «don't try to make your friend laugh when he is reading something aloud,» or «no, you may not go to the bathroom — again.»

At KIPP, a middle school founded by two former Teach for America members, one recent class entered with passing rates of 35 and 33 percent on state math and reading tests.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

For middle school students, there's the interactive reading resource «Reading Planet» that would certainly be useful inreading resource «Reading Planet» that would certainly be useful inReading Planet» that would certainly be useful in class.

But if the loudest and most active (read: white upper - middle - class suburban) parents think standardized tests are just an annual annoyance, if these parents and other activist voters choose to disbelieve the results in the fact - free era of modern political discourse, then accountability will be diluted down to the posting of test results and the annual finger wagging of the local news media.

Each summer most youth lose about two months» worth of math skills, while low - income students also lose morethan two months in reading achievement despite the fact that their middle - class peers make slight gains over the summer break.

Students at King Middle School in Portland, Maine are Skyping with authors of the books they read in English or history classes, and students in the technology education class learn about the design process through a YouTube video of engineers from IDEO who spent a week redesigning a shopping cart.

This lesson helped my middle ability year 9 class to consider their observation skills in exploring a 5 mark mood and atmosphere style question from the WJEC fiction reading paper.

Any one of these books — which run the genre gamut from history to biography to poetry — would make a worthy read - aloud this month (or any month) in an elementary, middle, or high school class.

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.

My former middle school students often return to tell me how much they loved the novels we read as a class and how no other teacher since has awakened in them a similar passion for reading.

Kaitlyn Watson, a middle school English language arts teacher in North Carolina, has students build their own vocabulary lists from the context of their reading instead of generating whole - class lists for them, and then «they break down context clues and work toward their own applications of the words.»

On the other end are middle - class children whose teachers read them elaborate stories and encourage playful re — enactments and whose parents have been pointing out letters and reading them books since the year they were born.

«If you've ever read Jonathan Kozol's work, Tough brings a similar ethnographic, journalistic, and humane, middle - class re-awakening to challenges we do not all share.

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.