Sentences with phrase «successful upper middle class»

The successful upper middle class now lives at a distance from everyone else.

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It seems to me that a lot of the excitement around noncognitive skills comes from middle class and upper - middle class parents who want to know how their children can be as successful as possible in an ever more competitive world.

While parents of disadvantaged students do attempt to enroll their children in higher - scoring schools (when knowledgeable about the data)(Hastings, Justine, and Weinstein), middle and upper - class parents are often more successful because they are not confined by local governmental laws that block low - income students and their families from living near or attending these schools.

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.