Not exact matches
«Accordingly, policymakers and citizens alike would benefit from having an alternative, or at least complementary, bottom -
line metric that measures the level and rate
of improvement in shared
socioeconomic progress.»
It is a Sliding Doors tale
of a couple
of life events that lifted Vance and propelled him to cross
socioeconomic lines that are increasingly harder to pierce in the United States.
There are more positive reactions to the changes described in this article, with an interesting / troubling analysis
of how reactions follow
socioeconomic lines.
Gay fathers tend to be economically well - off, one means by which their children may garner social advantages relative to other children, while additional research has shown that children
of gay fathers did not report differences in sex - typed behaviour compared with parents
of other family configurations.58 A large literature shows that parents tend to transmit values to their children along
socioeconomic status
lines, with middle class parents typically imparting different values from parents in lower
socioeconomic strata.59, 60 However, little
of this work has examined fathers in particular, as distinct from mothers.
I'm pleased to report that at our last Houston ISD Food Services Parent Advisory Committee meeting, our food services director told me that these panini bars and other meal «concept»
lines are now (with the exception
of four high schools) available to all Houston kids, regardless
of socioeconomic level.
Exceptions to this rule include Shakespeare in Delaware Park, whose founder, Saul Elkin, was on hand to extol what now seems to be the radical idea
of a free outdoor theater festival that draws 40,000 people from across all racial and
socioeconomic lines to see professional - level theater every summer.
Measures
of socioeconomic status included poverty - income ratio, a ratio
of self - reported income relative to the poverty
line, and attained education level.
Holland's cry seesaws from yelp to confirmation within tunes
of heartache and resilience, her songwriting poetic yet blue - collar and blending that invisible
socioeconomic line between genres.
They define equity, disadvantage and student needs along
socioeconomic lines; allocate resources to schools at least partially on the basis
of students» backgrounds; and design programs and interventions specifically for low
socioeconomic and Indigenous students.
In addition to supporting racial equality in schools, Brown gave rise to numerous social movements seeking educational equality for students across all
lines of difference, including gender and sexual orientation, religion, language, physical handicaps, immigration status, and
socioeconomic level.
He found kids fighting in the corridors, poor attendance, seven layers
of academic tracking that placed students in classes ranging from college bound to vocational to disregarded — mostly along racial and
socioeconomic lines — and a disheartened teaching staff.
Since minority students tend to come from lower income families, racial integration might be achieved indirectly by giving low - income families their choice
of school, whenever that would facilitate integration across
socioeconomic lines.
In fact, the Century Foundation's Rick Kahlenberg reads Putnam's book as an explicit endorsement
of experimenting with various ways
of integrating schools along
socioeconomic lines.
For example, the NJDOE officials could develop a
socioeconomic indicator basket made up
of free lunch eligibility at the school level, the percentage
of families living below the poverty
line, and the percentage
of lone parent households in the community.
These institutions promote social justice and inclusivity as virtues
of good character, and where public school attendance is determined by residence and highly segregated on
socioeconomic lines, Catholic schools, especially those that participate in school choice programs, are diverse in terms
of race, social class and even religion.
There were also gaps along
socioeconomic, disability and language
lines, though Wisconsin was one
of 30 states with no significant gender gap.
PCC's efforts are focused on policy and practice solutions to the ongoing crisis
of low college completion rates, persistent achievement gaps that exist along racial and
socioeconomic lines, and college affordability.
The
socioeconomic status
of these students varied, generally along military pay and grade
lines, ranging from senior noncommissioned officer to colonel.
The research cuts across
socioeconomic lines finding, «low income African American children whose families maintain high rates
of parent participation in elementary school are more likely to complete high school.»
But even if separate is not inherently unequal, it quite often results in inequalities, especially where separation occurs along
lines of socioeconomic status, race and political power.
And contrary to stereotypes, dogfighters are often the kinds
of people we interact with all the time, including lawyers, teachers, high school football coaches, nurses, veterinary technicians and judges, spanning all racial and
socioeconomic lines.