Sentences with phrase «predominantly in middle class»

Many middle and high school students (predominantly in middle class and affluent schools) are assigned four to eight hours of homework a night.

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As members of the predominantly white, middle - class, law - abiding majority, we condone their ritual deaths in order to affirm our own «humanity» and identification with the existing social order.

Only one black was among the 37 university presidents who framed the legislation, and representatives of predominantly black schools were incensed by the weight given to the standardized tests, which have been widely and persuasively attacked as culturally biased in favor of white, middle - class youngsters.

Research in the United States, Canada, Europe, and other developed countries, among predominantly middle - class populations, provides strong evidence that human milk feeding decreases the incidence and / or severity of diarrhea,1 - 5 lower respiratory infection,6 - 9 otitis media,3,10 - 14bacteremia, 15,16 bacterial meningitis, 15,17 botulism, 18 urinary tract infection, 19 and necrotizing enterocolitis.20, 21 There are a number of studies that show a possible protective effect of human milk feeding against sudden infant death syndrome,22 - 24insulin - dependent diabetes mellitus,25 - 27 Crohn's disease, 28,29 ulcerative colitis, 29 lymphoma, 30,31 allergic diseases,32 - 34 and other chronic digestive diseases.35 - 37 Breastfeeding has also been related to possible enhancement of cognitive development.38, 39

I have since discovered that Insufficient Milk Syndrome is a predominantly Western phenomenon (in middle - class Swedish women, Sjölin, Hofvander, Hillervik, 1977; low - income European - American, African - American and Hispanic women in the United States, McCan, Baydar, & Williams, 2007).

Mr. Weiner cast himself as being in the vanguard for the middle class and as a native son of predominantly white neighborhoods outside Manhattan.

The teachers in predominantly poor, minority schools, who are reportedly mostly black and have adopted the more teacher - centered, authoritarian style of instruction that they view as appropriate for their students, are turning off white, upper - middle - class parents who want school climates similar to their own progressive homes, where problems are discussed.

They show the contrasts we would expect between a high school in an urban and predominantly black school district, and one in a suburban, predominantly white, and middle - class county.

The author, a high school language arts teacher, describes her move to a high - needs urban school after 13 years teaching in predominantly middle - class suburban schools.

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.

In addition, urban districts with students most likely to benefit from class integration serve predominantly poor and minority students, with middle - and upper - class families in short supply or opting for private educatioIn addition, urban districts with students most likely to benefit from class integration serve predominantly poor and minority students, with middle - and upper - class families in short supply or opting for private educatioin short supply or opting for private education.

It is impossible for Michelle Rhee, or anyone else for that matter, to eliminate the achievement gap because it is completely impossible to make DC's lower class students (mostly Blacks and Hispanics) with IQs predominantly in the 75 to 105 range perform as well as DC's middle and upper class students (mostly Whites and Asians) with IQs predominantly in the 105 to 135 range.

In urban areas, low - income white students are more likely to be integrated into middle - class neighborhoods and are less likely to attend school predominantly with other disadvantaged students.

District C is located in a predominantly white, lower - middle - class, suburban community and was the largest of the four, serving more than 10,000 students.

District C is located in a predominantly white, lower - middle - class, suburban community and was the largest of the four participating districts, serving more than 10,000 students.

However, with this new round, the C - Class is sporting a new grille that is predominantly chrome with three horizontal slats that are intersected by one right in the middle.

It discovered that no matter how much they paid in tuition, successful applicants came predominantly from middle - class and upper - middle - class neighbourhoods, with only a smattering of household incomes trailing off into the $ 250,000 range.

This contrasts with the view that interest in parenting programmes is predominantly a phenomenon of middle class parents who do not have children with behaviour problems.

These homes were predominantly capes and ranches, modest in size, but built to house a growing middle - class as the 20th century became the American century.