Sentences with phrase «more middle class children»

Exams and interviews to test children's aptitude would measure intelligence and gauge potential — doing whatever possible to avoid the sorts of tests that reward either extensive coaching or the confidence and eloquence that more middle class children are more likely to receive from their parents.

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«At the time, people looked at our plan for more generous and means - tested child benefits, tax increases for the rich and tax cuts for the middle class as a bit of a curiosity,» he said, according to a copy of his remarks.

By contrast to the so called middle - class tax cut which favours the more affluent, the CCB will have a positive impact upon the lamentably high rate of child poverty in Canada (which stood at 16.5 % in 2013), and will promote greater income equality among families with children.

But middle class families could feel more of a pinch if their children have portfolios generating significant income — from, say, an inherited individual retirement account.

People continue to have babies — Chinese couples even more so now that the one - child policy has been lifted — and the global middle class is swelling rapidly.

Recent polls consistently show that African - Americans, especially poorer, inner - city people and those with school - age children favor vouchers more than do middle - class whites.

When I was young, middle class parents wished for their children a more comfortable and successful life, but one in continuity with the broad middle class consensus.

Ask yourself, what middle - class parent in America today supposes that her authority over the crucial details of her child's life is nothing more than a revocable delegation from New Mexico or the feds?

But critics have accused faith schools of simply selecting the brightest children from the more middle - class, affluent families, which may be skewing their results.

Poor people on average consume the same level of vitamins, minerals, and protein as do middle - class folk, and poor children actually eat more meat and protein than do their middle - class peers.

Short, concrete, and reassuring talks with young children, more detailed talks with middle age children focusing on their concerns and questions, and digging deep with interested teenagers around issues of values, inequality, and class divisions.

There are good political and social reasons behind making pre-K available to everyone, including the benefits to all children of socioeconomic integration and the fact that middle - class voters are more likely to be invested in programs that aren't narrowly targeted at the poor.

It seems to me that a lot of the excitement around noncognitive skills comes from middle class and upper - middle class parents who want to know how their children can be as successful as possible in an ever more competitive world.

The average middle - class family spends more than $ 225,000 in the first 18 years of a child's life.

Heron's 1994 study of middle class English children found children who never slept in their parents bed tended to be harder to control, less happy, exhibited a greater number of tantrums and were more fearful than children who always slept in their parents bed.

Heckman, a Nobel laureate, argues that ability gaps between middle - class and low - income children open up early in life, and that the skills they need to close that gap have more to do with personal traits than with knowledge acquisition.

Children of middle - class and two - parent families were more likely to be affected negatively than those from working - class or single - parent families, according to the research.

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.

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I think the rich people need to pay more taxes than the middle class,» added Batista, who works at a children's program at P.S. 115.

As evidence of peer influence, she also notes that siblings grow up to be very different adults; that adopted children are more like their biological parents than their adopted parents in terms of such traits as criminality; and that adolescents from poor neighborhoods are more likely to be delinquents than adolescents from middle - class neighborhoods, whereas being from a broken home has no effect on delinquency.

Studies at Rice and Columbia Universities reported eye - opening findings about how many more words children who grow up in middle and upper - class homes hear on a daily basis as compared to lower - income children.

Young children are far more likely to experience attention and hyperactivity problems if their mother develops diabetes during pregnancy and they are born into a poor or lower - middle - class household, a new study suggests.

Ms. Doyle Melton is attractive and slender, lives in an upper middle class neighborhood, has a husband (although they are now separated), three good - looking children and more - than - adequate finances.

Middle - class parents are more adept than low - income families at navigating the social networks that link their children to school opportunities.

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.

Several factors affect poor children's academic performances, and more money doesn't always close the gap between their test scores and the scores of their white, middle class counterparts, Neill told Education World.

The danger is that preschool will become a new middle - class entitlement, displacing the more intensive (and extensive) efforts needed to shrink the achievement gap among severely disadvantaged children.

Red light - designed for the more able children in the class / group Yellow light - designed for the middle group in the class Green light - designed for the less able children in the class / group Once the class or group have completed the loop card activity once, why not time them to see if they can complete the «loop» in a faster time.

Upper - middle - class parents have the means to spend two to three times more time with their preschool children than less affluent parents.

I believe that whether one wants a less polarized environment, or a skilled workforce and more middle - class jobs, or pluralism and democracy, or diversity and tolerance, or just for children to thrive and be joyful, the answer always starts with a powerful, purposeful public education.

Either this discordant plan is a front for public school expansionism, bent on adding another grade or two to its current thirteen, and adding the staff (and dues - paying union members) that would accompany such growth, or it's a cynical calculation: only by appealing to the middle - class desire for taxpayers to underwrite the routine child - care needs of working parents will any movement occur on the pre-K front, and the heck with the truly disadvantaged youngsters who need more than that strategy will yield.

A large number of black middle - class families also reside in low - income neighborhoods, and as a result, their children are more likely to attend low - income schools compared to white, middle - class families.46

Nothing was done to remove the child from normal classes and the child was simply passed on to the middle school where I am sure the child created more mayhem.

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

More importantly, these writers have essentially embraced the Poverty and Personal Responsibility myths that education traditionalists have held so dear, declaring that helping children of the poor — especially those from single - family households — move into the middle class is almost impossible.

Unfortunately this has not proven to be the case, but that argument did make vouchers more acceptable so that now they are expanding beyond inner - city, low - income students to children of middle class and upper income families.

The Brashier Middle College Parent Portal allows parents to monitor their child's grades, attendance records, class registration, and more.

In the U.S., where 87 % of white students attend a majority white school, many middle - class and affluent urbanites grapple with what Mike Petrilli calls the Diverse Schools Dilemma: Should I send my child to a local public school that offers racial, cultural, and economic diversity or to a more homogenous — but perhaps higher - performing — school?

«When low - performing students are concentrated in the same schools, it is more difficult to raise their achievement than when these children are integrated into the middle - class population,» Rothstein writes.

All I know is that the primary schools where I live are now more like sweat shops and crammers while middle class parents are saddened to see less smiles on the faces of their children and see a weary resigntaion about school

Among other factors, some middle - class parents have some reluctance to enroll their child in a more diverse setting, despite the research.

Richard Rothstein of the Economic Policy Institute lists dozens of reasons why this is so, from the more frequent illness and stress poor students suffer, to the fact that they don't hear the large vocabularies that middle - class children hear at home.

Yes, sacrificing the have - nots by taking more educational dollars from already struggling public school Districts and sending them to upper class / upper middle class families who want to send their children to private schools.

Children of poverty move more often than middle - class 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.

Not only are black and Hispanic children more likely to grow up in poor families, but middle - class black and Hispanic children are also much more likely than poor white children to live in neighborhoods and attend schools with high concentrations of poor students.

And it is a matter that contrasts sharply with educating, more so than training, elite - and middle - class children rooted in their parents» values of «curiosity, happiness, consideration, and... self - control» and «self - direction.»

The parents who mailed in all those applications believe that the new Wayne school will have a more motivated staff than most city schools (300 teachers applied for 14 jobs), that it will benefit from its association with the university, that it will be a magnet for philanthropy (before opening it had attracted $ 575,000 in corporate donations), that it will be smaller (city middle schools have 600 to 1,000 students) and have smaller classes (25 students versus 35 for city middle schools), and that it will demand more from their children.

Another new study by Sussex researchers shows that children are being placed in ability groups according to social class, with pupils from middle - class backgrounds more likely to be assigned to higher sets, irrespective of their prior attainment.