Sentences with phrase «of middle class success»

If he played by the rules, they said, he could enjoy everyone else's version of middle class success.

Not exact matches

The rich habits study is really a five - year study of 233 millionaires, 128 poor people, and what I found out was that wealth, success, being in the middle class, being poor, is all about your habits.

«We have also experienced success in several new markets, including celebrating our first shipment of live lobster to the up - and - coming Brazilian market; expanding our value - added product reach to Australia; rolling - out a line of retail products targeting the emerging middle - class in China; and introducing Propeller Clams, a new clam species, to the sushi - hungry Asian market.»

This profound alienation of the ghetto poor from mainstream American life has continued to grow worse in the years since the triumphs of the civil rights movement, even as the success of that movement has provided the basis for an impressive expansion of economic and political power for the black middle class.

I admit to espousing a definite idea of Western, upper - middle - class sophistication and elegance, which I associate with material success.

Young people who, as adults, merely retain the same level of upper - middle - class success that their parents have can regard themselves as standing still or coasting on the momentum acquired by their forebears.

All the studies of middle - class marriages show that companionship, the hallmark of the egalitarian marriage, is one of the most important ingredients for a successful marriage, especially for the wife, no matter what criterion or index is used to measure success.

Robert D. Yaro of the Regional Plan Association in New York City observes that inner cities are in trouble in part because of the country's success in creating an African - American and Latino middle class.

All too often, their character is implicitly diminished in efforts to account for their situation in the first place: they represent the opposite of character traits thought to be the basis of middle - class success and security.

This evaluation explains many of the political successes of the new middle class, whose values and views continue to represent

Treasury Wines, which also sells the Wolf Blass brand, is a major driver of the export success to China as it targets the growing middle class in that country.

Remember if you aren't at the head of the class when it comes to the development of young talent, which means eyes on the ground everywhere, a vast array of connections with soccer associations throughout Europe and beyond and a manager willing to properly train and play said blue chippers, (like the 90s Arsenal or clubs like the modern day Monaco and Dortmund) you need to spend to win... anything in between is highly problematic... failure to make the necessary changes leaves you in the proverbial «no man's land» and that is currently where we reside... it's difficult to get out of this rut... just ask either of the Milan teams... next step after that is being known as a «seller», which could be us already if and when Sanchez leaves... there are only two teams that have worn this moniker in recent times and had some decent success and that is Athletico Madrid and Dortmond, which only occurred when they both brought in new, charismatic leaders in Simmone & Klopp... the odds that Wenger could conjure up the magic to repeat the performances of a bygone era are incredibly low, so why prolong the agony... he's not willing to create the hierarchy necessary to go the youth route and he's unwilling to put his team's potential success ahead of his job security by laying it on the line with Moustache, so it's time to place all your chips in the middle or go gently into that good night

«Working collaboratively with the Broome County Promise Zone, those interested in serving as mentors will be matched with children in schools that are part of CCPA's University - assisted community school effort, which aims to level the playing field for students from low - income families who lack some of the supports for academic success from which children from middle - class families benefit,» Bronstein said.

State senators in favor of this bill made a three - pronged argument: property taxes have become too burdensome for middle - class homeowners; the property tax caps for municipalities outside the city have been — according to Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan — «a tremendous success,» as well as a job creator; and that the city had benefitted so much from uncapped property tax collections that the mayor shouldn't be surprised about the governor's proposal to shift Medicaid cost to the city.

«From tuition - free college for the middle class to the nation's boldest infrastructure agenda, our administration has an unprecedented record of success in fighting for greater social and economic opportunities for all,» Cuomo said.

And, at the same time at a rally on Tuesday in New York City with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Cuomo touted his own record of success on issues he says are aimed at the middle class, such as reducing property taxes and providing free tuition at public colleges and universities.

At a state Assembly hearing on receivership, held, ironically, just after my visit, experienced educators and sociologists also testified that it takes more than a year or two to break the cycle of poverty and truly help students climb the ladder of success out of poverty and into the middle class.

«New York knows that our progressive principles of acceptance and diversity are not the enemy of our middle class and we know that the middle class success is not the enemy of our progressive beliefs,» Cuomo said.

«There is a recent and powerful belief that America's diversity, openness and acceptance is in conflict with the success of America's middle class working families,» Cuomo said referencing the mood that many believe helped lead to Donald Trump's election.

«New York knows that our progressive principles of acceptance and diversity are not the enemy of our middle class and we know that the middle class success is not the enemy of our progressive beliefs,» Cuomo said during his speech at One World Trade Center.

«New York knows that our progressive principles of acceptance and diversity are not the enemy of our middle class and we know that the middle - class success is not the enemy of our progressive beliefs,» he said.

«Royals» took the teenage angst of middle class ambition for high class success into a pop phenomenon.

This is one family's story of success against the odds, of navigating the journey from working - class to middle - class status.

There are myriad recommendations in the book, which Mike boils down into three major themes: First, balance our fixation on college completion with renewed attention to career and technical education; next prioritize the needs of «strivers» — the low - income students who are working hardest to make it to the middle class; finally, encourage all students to follow the «success sequence» — including delaying parenthood — as the surest means of avoiding pitfalls that push kids off the path to upward mobility.

Brooklyn's Community Roots has been approved to expand into middle school this fall and considers its new lottery priority a success: roughly 600 families applied for a kindergarten class of 50.

To strengthen the middle class, to give children a path out of poverty, to give all children the tools they need to succeed — that is why we're so committed to the success of the Common Core State Standards.

(James J. Barta and Michael G. Allen); «Ideas and Programs To Assist in the Untracking of American Schools» (Howard D. Hill); «Providing Equity for All: Meeting the Needs of High - Ability Students» (Sally M. Reis); «Promoting Gifted Behavior in an Untracked Middle School Setting» (Thomas O. Erb et al.); «Untracking Your Middle School: Nine Tentative Steps toward Long - Term Success» (Paul S. George); «In the Meantime: Using a Dialectical Approach To Raise Levels of Intellectual Stimulation and Inquiry in Low - Track Classes» (Barbara G. Blackwell); «Synthesis of Research on Cooperative Learning» (Robert E. Slavin); «Incorporating Cooperation: Its Effects on Instruction» (Harbison Pool et al.); «Improving All Students» Achievement: Teaching Cognitive and Metacognitive Thinking Strategies» (Robert W. Warkentin and Dorothy A. Battle); «Integrating Diverse Learning Styles» (Dan W. Rea); «Reintegrating Schools for Success: Untracking across the United States» (Anne Wheelock); «Creatinga Nontraditional School in a Traditional Community» (Nancy B. Norton and Charlotte A. Jones); «Ungrouping Our Way: A Teacher's Story» (Daphrene Kathryn Sheppard); «Educating All Our Students: Success in Serving At - Risk Youth» (Edward B. Strauser and John J. Hobe); «Technology Education: A New Application of the Principles of Untracking at the Secondary Level» (N. Creighton Alexander); «Tracking and Research - Based Decisions: A Georgia School System's Dilemma» (Jane A. Page and Fred M. Page, Jr.); and «A Call to Action: The Time Has Come To Move beyond Tracking» (Harbison Pool and Jane A. Page).

Advocates point to successes, such as the Montgomery County, Maryland, school district, which claims measurable, albeit modest, academic improvements, at least in the short term, in reading and math for low - income elementary - school students sent to predominantly middle - class schools through a program of dispersed low - income housing.

One of Class Warfare's stars, a charter school assistant principal named Jessica Reid, unexpectedly quits her job at Eva Moskowitz's Harlem Success Academy in the middle of the school year; the charter chain's rigorous demands pushed the 28 - year - old Reid, a dedicated and charismatic educator, to the brink of a nervous breakdown and divorce.

To diversify their campuses, these colleges eagerly seek out well - prepared minority students (not just minority students from the middle and upper - middle class who went to suburban or private schools, but urban minority students truly in need of a boost) and are willing to take dramatic steps to ensure their success on their campuses.

Partly, Woodward says, that's because of the Latin: Throwing kids into Latin class in the middle of the year is not a path to success.

The lack of wealth puts the black middle class as whole in a precarious position where a job loss, natural disaster, or medical emergency can make a family downwardly mobile, and thus, many black middle class families put a large emphasis on ensuring the future success of their children.

Children from black families in white suburbs are also set up for further success because they learn cultural characteristics of the white upper and middle classes, which are typically favored in American society.

While we were clear that schools have not contributed to this violence, and are a success story for multicultural Britain, some participants spoke of «British Values» displays that could serve as UKIP recruitment campaigns — centred on the flag, the Queen, white, middle class and English stereotypes.

from a business stanpoind this could prove to be super success in markets like India & rest of the South east asia where experience holds second position compared to price since these markets are hugely dominated by middle class who want to put their hands on the latest gadgets and have no issues with ads since their lives are already surrounded by all forms of advertising.

It's been said that the key to success in the upper middle class is education, which opens the doors to higher - earning jobs and a higher standard of living.

13) The thirteenth tenet of The New Buy - and - Hold is that it is not possible for any middle - class investor to take a purely long - term perspective on his or her investing success.

FAIRFIELD PORTER»28 lived and painted the breezy, cheerful life of American upper middle - class success.

All set around a swimming pool, the quintessential gateway into middle class, Fischl claws at the veneer of decorum, respectability and success to expose a society saturated with consumer goods but devoid of humanity.

Buoyed by the success of the model marriage education programs with middle - class families, and following the lead of former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating, who was determined to end his state's embarrassing status as the nation's divorce capital, practitioners of marital education programs have begun applying and adapting these models to the needs of low - income couples.