Sentences with phrase «size of the middle class»

What should excite investors the most is the growing size of the middle class in China and India.

Good data on the exact size of the middle class are hard to come by, but it remains small across most parts of the continent.

«In countries such as the Philippines and Indonesia, we are seeing a huge increase in the size of the middle class and their buying power,» says Todd Winterhalt.

All of these figures indicate why there has been a decline in the proportional size of the middle class.

Not exact matches

In October 2015, the investment bank reported that, for the first time, the size of China's middle class had exceeded that of America's middle class, 109 million to 92 million.

He gave the example of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who he would argue has less power today than five years ago because of economic turmoil caused by sanctions and a middle class of an unprecedented size and aspirations.

China's middle class is already around the size of the entire population of Canada and U.S. combined and expected to double by 2020.

-- When changes in the composition of families are taken into account — including fewer adults per household as family sizes decrease — the real after - tax income of middle - class families increased 30 per cent from 1976 to 2010 — on par with other income groups, but still lower than the top earners

China should be attractive to small U.S. companies, due to the market's size, rising consumption in the country and an increasing fondness for American products among China's young and growing middle class of over 300 million consumers.

The truth from the ground, based on the extensive footwork due diligence I conduct plus emails from readers around the country reporting similar observations, is that the inventory of home listings of soaring (the published inventory reports by design have 2 - 3 month lag), prices are dropping quickly, the time it takes to sell a home is increasing significantly and, most important, the potential pool of middle class home buyers no longer have an income level that will support the size of mortgage it takes to «buy» a home.

To accommodate the requests, Brady would have to find new tax revenue elsewhere, possibly by shrinking the size of provisions in the bill aimed at benefiting middle - and working - class households.

A congregation of moderate size located in an upper - middle - class bedroom community in New England, Wiltshire offered the scholars a chance to demonstrate the range of insight that could be gained through the use of their specific disciplines in the service of congregational analysis.

Similarly, in prior TLT posts you can read all about how my daughter, now in middle school, was last year regularly handed 12 oz cans of Coke and full - sized packages of gummi bears for good performance in a language class, and how my son was given a jumbo sized Hershey bar for winning a school lottery.

He's also in favor of free tuition to CUNY colleges for low - and middle - income students, smaller class sizes in the city's public schools, and desegregation of the school system, which he noted is the «third most segregated in the nation.»

I am eager to begin collaborating with local families, businesses and elected officials to take action on my other legislative priorities for 2013, including creating jobs, reducing the size and cost of state government (e.g.) consolidation of the Thruway Authority within the Department of Transportation, regulatory reform and making the 2011 middle - class tax cut permanent.

And they compared the sizes of these structures with those of 12 - year - old children who were raised in middle - class families and had not been abused.

The pint - sized world, smack dab in the middle of the Arizona desert, presents an opportunity for the lower middle - class couple from Omaha to be millionaires in the miniature world, since you can stretch a dollar farther when your house is the size of Barbie's Malibu dream home.

Creating wall - sized portraits of locals as they travel from town to town, the two inquisitive, kindred - spirit directors peer into the day - to - day life of rural and working - class France, the camera listening and learning as old and middle - aged villagers remember how coal miners used to bathe and eat back in the day or goat - cheese makers give their differing opinions on the subject of dehorning.

Some high - performing nations boast middle or high school class sizes of 40 to 50 students.

We can rule out even a minimal relationship between class size and TIMSS scores in the middle grades in six school systems: those of Flemish Belgium, Canada, Japan, Portugal, Singapore, and Slovenia.

These results cast doubt on the desirability of class - size reduction in the middle grades as a reform strategy in many countries.

The Education Next research article «Stuck in the Middle,» featured in the Fall 2010 issue of Education Next, finds that the steep drop - off in middle - school students» academic achievement may be linked to the larger number of students in each grade level but can not be explained by differences in per - pupil spending or class size, which were similar in middle and K - 8 scMiddle,» featured in the Fall 2010 issue of Education Next, finds that the steep drop - off in middle - school students» academic achievement may be linked to the larger number of students in each grade level but can not be explained by differences in per - pupil spending or class size, which were similar in middle and K - 8 scmiddle - school students» academic achievement may be linked to the larger number of students in each grade level but can not be explained by differences in per - pupil spending or class size, which were similar in middle and K - 8 scmiddle and K - 8 schools.

This set of REVIEW QUBES is designed for middle school life science and can be used by groups of any size, from pairs of students all the way up to an entire class divided into teams.

Contrast this with the local school where class sizes are notoriously large and there has been a «white flight» of middle class students out of this school to private schools in the last few years.

I could see how many «one - size - fits - all» programs there were, and worried that these would result in teachers teaching to the middle of the class - not stretching children, and also leaving other behind.

Researchers Martin West and Ludger Woessmann have pointed out that several nations that perform impressively on international assessments, including South Korea, Hong Kong, and Japan, boast average middle - school class sizes of more than 35 students per teacher.

The Class Size Matters advocacy group has also compiled data showing that about 40 percent of elementary and middle schools in the Renewal program — and nearly all of the high schools — have some classes with 30 or more students in them.

As a further point of comparison I provide results from a study [xvii] of Project STAR that examined the impact on middle school test scores of exposure to class size reduction in the early grades.

Excel would not be in the position it is today, with three best - in - class middle schools and a new high school, without the support of our hundreds of donors who make gifts of all sizes.

«The elimination of state requirements specific to class size will best ensure that each student with disabilities is placed in the least restrictive environment (LRE), as directed by his or her Individualized Education Program (IEP), and has access to the broad array of coursework available to his or her nondisabled peers, particularly in the middle grades and high school.»

The policy allows special and elective class sizes of 40 in middle and high schools, This is too big.

As contract negotiations plod along between LA Unified and the teachers union, UTLA, the issue of class size reduction has taken on a new urgency for Superintendent Ramon Cortines, who plans to shrink the number of students in middle school and high school classrooms by the end of the year.

In middle and high schools, when students spend every other day in a digital / homework lab, teachers can teach 50 percent more students, for more pay, without increasing class sizes, and gain 5 to 15 hours of planning time weekly.

* UPDATED As contract negotiations plod along between LA Unified and the teachers union, UTLA, the issue of class size reduction has taken on a new urgency for Superintendent Ramon Cortines, who plans to shrink the number of students in middle school and high school classrooms by the end of the year.

The main shortcoming of this study, besides its small size, is that the students in these teachers» classrooms were mostly from middle - class households in six New England states and New York.

Deborah Wiltz, president of the Middle School Principals» Organization, and principal at Byrd Middle School of Sun Valley called for more middle school counselors and smaller class Middle School Principals» Organization, and principal at Byrd Middle School of Sun Valley called for more middle school counselors and smaller class Middle School of Sun Valley called for more middle school counselors and smaller class middle school counselors and smaller class sizes.

Baltimore City teachers say they look forward to the middle grades summer school program because of small class size, consistent discipline and time to show they care.

In this paper we investigate the effects of class size on the achievements of a sample of college students enrolled at a middle - sized Italian public university.

Rhee has repeatedly claimed that the problem facing American education is not a lack of money, despite the fact that in Connecticut, at least, the lack of sufficient resources means urban students face larger class sizes, fewer options and middle - income and working families end up paying unfairly high local property taxes.

To facilitate the achievement of our program goals, we have limited class size to 20 students, and provide our teachers opportunities for weekly planning and collaboration, in addition to classes in the following areas during designated professional development sessions: International Primary Curriculum (IPC) and International Middle Years Curriculum (IMYC); Student assessments and interventions based on Dr. Stanley Greenspan's developmental model of education; Arts integration; and Common Core English Language Arts and Mathematics standards - based instruction.

Oakland teachers Danielle Justesen, Miya Partido and Kei Swensen, from left, demonstrate in the middle of Broadway at 51st Street in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, after the school district reduced a salary offer and rejected a request for lower class sizes during contract talks.

Murphy had originally proposed upping average elementary school class sizes by one student each, with average increases of.75 pupils in each middle school class and.5 students in high school classes.

Grades Pre-K3 and UPK (UPK Site #: MACU); K to 8; After - school Program; Middles States Accredited; Follows New York State Curriculum and Archdiocese of New York Guidelines; Financial assistance available; Religious instruction; Enrichment program includes: Studio Art, Physical Education, and Music programs; Fully equipped library and computer facilities; SmartBoard technology; Rooftop Playground; Small class size

Dawn: Do you truly believe that you can build a professional teacher corps based on the principle that once you get a few years under your belt and start earning a middle - class salary that you will be in immediate danger of being laid off because that will allow the hiring of more new and inexperienced teachers to lower class size?

Do you truly believe that you can build a professional teacher corps based on the principle that once you get a few years under your belt and start earning a middle - class salary that you will be in immediate danger of being laid off because that will allow the hiring of more new and inexperienced teachers to lower class size?

But another charter middle school that accepts new students at all grades, E.L. Haynes, maintained a class size of 101 between 6th and 8th grade for the same period.

The proposal includes the addition of about five teaching positions, primarily to help manage class size at the elementary and middle school levels.

Although the existing literature provided a basis of information, more work on the sociology of middle class black families needs to be done, especially as this demographic increases in size and importance in the future.

In the luxury full - size SUV market, the 2015 Cadillac Escalade fits in the middle of the surprisingly wide price range, which includes SUVs like the $ 63,545 Infiniti QX80, the $ 63,925 Mercedes - Benz GL - Class, along with higher - priced models like the $ 83,540 Lexus LX570 and the $ 84,195 Land Rover Range Rover.

The trunk size seems to be in the middle of its class as I threw a set of golf clubs back there and though they wouldn't fit perpendicularly, they fit on an angle without folding the seats down.