Sentences with phrase «middle class schools»

In many middle class schools classes that now require two teachers can be combined into a class only requiring one teacher.

At the charter elementary school my kids attended, we considered our mostly white, middle class school community to be «like minded».

He is the author of four books: Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race and Democracy (Columbia University Press, 2007); All Together Now: Creating Middle Class Schools through Public School Choice (Brookings Institution Press, 2001); The Remedy: Class, Race, and Affirmative Action (Basic Books, 1996); and Broken Contract: A Memoir of Harvard Law School (Hill & Wang / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992.)

My hunch is that once absolute test score levels surpass a certain floor (as they tend to in middle class schools), families just care a lot about other factors.

Upper - middle class schools provide kids with peers who plan to go to college, while high poverty schools have four times the concentration of students with academic, attention, and behavioral problems than their wealthier counterparts.

Low - income students given a chance to attend middle class schools are as much as two years ahead of low - income students stuck in high - poverty schools on the National Assessment of Educational Progress in math.

From a social perspective, having a device to text with is getting close to being essential in Canadian middle class schools.

Sooner or later they will want to turn your middle class school into one, and my guess is you will pay for it, and you will have no say into how it is run.

Not as Good as You Think: The Myth of the Middle Class School is a documentary that shatters the myth that «good» schools located in «nice» neighborhoods are shielded from the education crisis that pervades schools in poor, urban areas.