Sentences with phrase «of middle class background»

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Stereotyped for appealing to a niche of upper middle class men, golf is a sport that engages a diversity of backgrounds.

Completed Access to Information Request - Finance - Briefing notes, Background Material on the Economic and Financial Situation of the Canadian Middle Class, Budget 2013 Boot Camp

The vices of the middle - aged and the middle class of middle America have been scored repeatedly, while the suburbanite is routinely pictured as one who cowardly flees from the tumult of the inner city to enjoy his affluence in the privacy of his background with its green grass and ubiquitous charcoal grill.

The Beach Boys were a pretty good model of what thoroughly middle class folk with no blues or country apprenticeship possibilities can aspire to do, working to keep a rhythm n» blues feel while trying to work something fresh out of elements (barbershop, surf instros) that reflected their backgrounds.

Public schools serve all students in a community: rich, poor, middle class, of various ethnicities, ability levels, health concerns, family backgrounds and more.

The other major «Raj» nostalgia of the 1980s was the television serialisation The Jewel in the Crown, in which the villain — Ronald Merrick — was depicted as a sadistic deviant who happened to come from a lower middle class background, was a grammar school boy and a closet homosexual as well.

Naomi Andrews, who has worked for Shea - Porter for more than a decade and managed two of her past campaigns, became the ninth Democrat to join the September 11 primary ballot, touting her middle - class background and experience working with Shea - Porter.

The scheme's critics argued that Specialist Schools encouraged segregation in education, insofar as the middle class parents who were long best placed to ensure favourable outcomes from school admissions regimes of grammar schools would continue to be able to get their children into the better schools, at the expense of those from poorer and socially excluded backgrounds.

The quartet - a middle - of - the - road folk band with a big, predominantly middle class following - have attracted attention for their privileged backgrounds.

A lot has been made of his middle class and «privileged» background by many commentators and opponents, but more significant was he came from an activist Labour family and his brother Piers is cut from the same cloth.

I did, but only one of those was from my close friendship group - and she just happened to be the only one from a middle class background.

«What will matter most to Americans of all backgrounds boils down to this: the President is fighting every day to provide economic security for the middle class and to make the economy more fair, while the Republicans want to double down on policies that led to the challenges we face,» campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said in an e-mail.

«Washington could use a breath of fresh air, and Hirsh has the talent, background, and common sense approach to be a strong advocate for our local, middle class families and rise above the gridlock to get things done for South Jersey.»

Students who have signed up fall between the range of 21 - 27 years old, mostly coming from upper and middle class backgrounds.

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.

The movie surely owes something to Polanski, Cronenberg, et al., in its use of an apparently placid, upper - middle - class setting as the background for perverse horrors, but De Van's fearless, high - wire performance is uniquely its own.

They come from different socioeconomic backgrounds, however, with Florence's family representing the upper middle class that looks down on people of Edward's more humble status.

The setting is today's Russian middle class of spacious, well - furnished apartments, elegant restaurants with jazz purring in the background and the selfie vacuousness of contemporary materialism.

Arbitrary lower - class background (despite now being the epitome of middle - class)?

Mason: Students, especially those in middle and high school, might resist teachers» attempts to «teach» texts steeped in popular culture, especially across the boundaries of race, class, language background, and privilege.

The reality is that most of us were well - behaved students from a middle class background who found learning interesting enough that we pursued it for a lifelong career.

As for grammar schools, there is the stigma that these institutions are reserved for the children of the wealthy and middle class, with statistics that reflect that children from working class backgrounds are far less likely to obtain a place.

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.

Indeed, it goes to the heart of the American promise of equal opportunity: No matter your background or family circumstance, you have a shot at a middle - class life if you work hard and get a good education.

She said the strict rules are needed because most of her students do not have the advantage of middle - class backgrounds.

These tests are known to be culturally and linguistically biased in favour of English speaking, middle / upper class students of North American background.

Because the purpose of Title 1 is to provide additional support for children from poor and minority backgrounds, any use of the subsidies for general school operations (including for kids from the middle class) is a violation of federal law.

Historically, public education has played a key role in growing the middle class and ensuring that all children, regardless of their backgrounds, have an opportunity to achieve at high levels.

In addition to racial diversity, ABC also has increased its assistance for students of varying economic backgrounds, helping not only students who have significant financial constraints, but also middle - class students.

Now, a year later, another charter group is looking to break new ground here by tailoring a school for all economic backgrounds, including middle and upper class — and this time, there are no signs of a looming fight.

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.

In a separate study Dr Mairead Dunne, lecturer in education at Sussex, led a project that analysed grouping practices in 168 primary and secondary schools and found that working - class pupils are more likely to be placed in lower sets than middle - class pupils who have the same test results, and that pupils from middle - class backgrounds more likely to be assigned to higher sets, irrespective of their prior attainment.

From where they sit, simply requiring kids of different backgrounds to attend the same schools, either by using and zoned schooling rules, or through supposedly more choice - oriented magnet schools (which restrict choice by setting quotas on what kind of kids can attend, often to the advantage of middle class families) Wil lead to higher levels of student achievement and foster greater understanding among each other.

«There is a big disconnect between perceptions of high school quality and the reality of college preparation, and that stems even to those who come from middle - class and affluent backgrounds.»

CHSA believes that greater support for these models at the federal, state, and local levels will significantly improve the secondary and postsecondary outcomes of students, particularly those from low - income and middle - class backgrounds.

As with black and Latino families from the middle class, poor families of all backgrounds move into suburbia thinking that traditional district schools in those communities will do better in providing their kids with high - quality teaching and curricula than the big city districts they fled.

CHSA believes that greater support for these models at the federal, state, and local levels will significantly improve the secondary and post secondary outcomes of students, particularly those from low - income and middle - class backgrounds.

CHSA advocates for greater support for these models at the federal, state, and local levels to significantly improve the secondary and post secondary outcomes of students, particularly those from low - income and middle - class backgrounds.

One out of every five suburban fourth grade young men from middle - class backgrounds were reading Below Basic in 2011, according to Dropout Nation «s analysis of NAEP data, just three points better than levels of illiteracy four years earlier; big - city districts brought down the levels of illiteracy for their middle class students by four percentage points in that same period, with nearly as many students from those backgrounds struggling with reading.

According to a Fraser Institute analysis, the increase in pension premiums, spread out over several years, «will more than wipe out the benefits» of the Trudeau government's key tax talking point, the famous middle - class income - tax cut that Finance Minister Bill Morneau keeps referring to as background justification for tightening tax rules for private corporations and small - businesses.

You could argue that the group was actually truly representative of the «industry» as the very nature of travel blogging means that the younger end of travel blogging especially is over represented by people from white, middle class backgrounds because people who aren't from that background simply can't afford to take time out to travel... despite what some blogs might say.

Space prohibits a full account of Hope Ranch's outdoor living background, shared by middle class families as well as the affluent.

He has often appropriated the language of the Occupy movement to suggest that Cooper students, who largely come from working and middle - class backgrounds, are the 1 percent.

Jef Geys (b. 1934), essentially coming from a middle - class background and regional context, can be seen as an annalist of the changing context around his work.

Most of the Founding Fathers came from that background as members of the middle - class.

They are a disgrace & have been infiltrated & infected by left - wing neo-socialist intellectuals, usually from privilaged middle - class well educated backgrounds, like the rest of the Jonathan Porrits of this world!

«Being white, male, straight, and of impeccably middle - class background, I could not realistically claim to be a victim of anything.»

Experience suggests that there is both a male as well as middle class bias to the background of these litigants.

In Western culture (and in my white, Protestant, middle - class background), most of us do not have explicit conversations about death and dying1.

Dr. Frank Furedi, Sociology professor at the University of Canterbury, said the study made sense as chore sharing took place more among couples from middle class professional backgrounds, where divorce rates are known to be high.