Sentences with phrase «upper class peers»

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The middle - and upper - class male peer group is also a milieu for sexist development.

Thus, the rural and urban poor are much less likely to marry and stay married than their middle - and upper - class peers, therefore losing out on the social, economic, and moral benefits of marriage.

You know, kids enter kindergarten in Harlem behind their peers in middle - class and upper - middle - class neighborhoods in the city.

First, while it was once the case that working - class and poor Americans held more conservative views of divorce than their middle - and upper - class peers, this is no longer so.

Once there, instead of building up their social capital, they continue to «concentrate very intensely on their work,... whereas often their upper or middle - class peers are involved in societies; they're networking; they're doing a whole range of things that actually support their career,» Reay says.

There, Bill works as a math teacher at a fancy prep school, while Wes tries to fit in with his upper - class peers.

At a panel convened last week by the Public School Forum of N.C., a research and advocacy group in Raleigh, Tulbert was one of several principals at low - performing schools — many of them teeming with low - income children — who described how their children tend to arrive lagging behind their middle - class and upper - class peers.

The contrast in access to opportunity is stark for low - income children compared with their upper - middle - class peers.

Summer learning programs can also offer an important strategy in closing the achievement gap between low - income children and their middle - and upper - class peers.