Sentences with phrase «traditional economic background»

Similarly, Robert Reich has been on the side of US labor, but he also doesn't have a traditional economic background.

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And liberated from traditional school boundaries, Shanker and other early charter advocates suggested, charters could do a better job than the regular public schools of helping children of different racial, ethnic, economic, and religious backgrounds come together to learn from one another.

Writing in The Wall Street Journal, he quotes from Steven Brill's Class Warfare, which compares the teachers» contracts at Harlem Success Academy, a high - performing charter school in New York City, and a traditional public school that shares the same building and teaches kids from the same socio - economic background.

Climate scepticism appeared particularly common among older individuals from lower socio - economic backgrounds who are politically conservative and hold traditional values; while it is less common among younger individuals from higher socio - economic backgrounds who hold self - transcendence and environmental values.