Sentences with phrase «upper middle class child»

Eire also wrote a memoir from the point of view of a upper middle class child in Havana which supports Arenas's findings.

Not exact matches

Chang — who said upper - middle - class investors are buying smaller apartments for themselves or their children — said that his Beijing contacts expect investment to pick up now that the Communist Party's 19th Congress is in the rearview mirror.

It is not uncommon for middle - and upper - class Americans to seek out diverse neighborhoods and to worry aloud that their children are not encountering enough people from other races.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

At the other end of the spectrum, children in middle - to - upper - class families grow up knowing that college, work, and a strong family are all desirable and attainable.

My gay child has a strong father, a two parent household, a upper middle class income, both college graduates, went to church, had a supportive family life, engaged in sports, school activities and I think someone needs to teach you about what the real Jesus would have done.

What about other children — middle - class or upper - middle - class kids?

And while the Science authors found instruction to be basic and repetitive even in American schools with a mostly middle - class or upper - middle - class student population, they found that the situation was considerably worse in schools that enrolled a lot of low - income children.

What about mothers from the Philippines, Mexico, Guatemala and elsewhere who leave their children behind to raise the children of America's middle - and upper - classes; are they good mothers?

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.

So, the term «extended breastfeeding» assumes that the specific cultural and material conditions that middle - and upper - class contemporary Westerners experience — widespread misunderstanding and stigma surrounding women's breasts and children's biology; widespread availability of commercial formula; clean water to prepare it with; the time and space to wash, sterilize, and store bottles, and so forth — are «normal,» while literally everything that has ever existed outside of this limited cultural experience and relatively short, unique period in time is somehow abnormal.

This means offering entering Ph.D. s a normal upper - middle - class existence, that is, remuneration sufficient to purchase a house at age 32 (the national average), support 2.3 children from birth through college, and provide for a reasonable retirement income.

Studies at Rice and Columbia Universities reported eye - opening findings about how many more words children who grow up in middle and upper - class homes hear on a daily basis as compared to lower - income children.

Ms. Doyle Melton is attractive and slender, lives in an upper middle class neighborhood, has a husband (although they are now separated), three good - looking children and more - than - adequate finances.

It was affixed to those achievement - obsessed upper - middle class parents who cared so much about their children's comfortable excellence that they did everything they could to ensure it — like the kids» homework, mainly.

In «DC,» Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline play an upper - middle - class couple going through a sort of empty - next syndrome now that their children are grown up and have moved away.

«Black - ish» is about an upper - middle class black man struggling to raise his children with some sense of cultural identity despite constant contradictions and obstacles coming from his liberal wife, old - school father and his own assimilated, color - blind kids.

BLACK - ISH (formerly UNTITLED ANTHONY ANDERSON / KENYA BARRIS; single camera) PICKED UP TO SERIES STUDIO: ABC Studios TEAM: Kenya Barris (w, ep), Anthony Anderson (ep), Larry Wilmore (ep), Laurence Fishburne (ep), Helen Sugland (ep), Tom Russo (ep), Peter Principato (ep), Paul Young (ep), Brian Dobbins (ep), James Griffiths (d) LOGLINE: An upper - middle class black man struggles to raise his children with a sense of cultural identity despite constant contradictions and obstacles coming from his liberal wife, old - school father and his own assimilated, color - blind kids.

While criticisms against Anderson are often levelled against his upper middle - class bias and his man - child protagonists, his ninth feature Isle of Dogs has awakened a familiar debate over the responsibility of representation and cultural appropriation which has engulfed discussions of the film since its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year.

In the middle of the last decade, in urban communities across America, middle - class and upper - middle - class parents started sending their children to public schools again — schools that for decades had overwhelmingly served poor and (and overwhelmingly minority) populations.

The power of middle - and upper - middle - class families to exercise control over how and what their children are taught is one example.

How to Raise More Grateful Children (Wall Street Journal) «In some communities, specifically among the white middle and upper - middle class, there's good reason to believe that kids are less grateful than in the past,» says psychologist Richard Weissbourd, faculty director of the Making Caring Common initiative at Harvard's Graduate School of Education.

Teaneck, N.J. — The jailing of teachers seemed bizarre, out of place, in Teaneck, a liberal, upper - middle - class community of 40,000 where parents discuss where, not whether, their children will attend college.

The return of many white, upper - middle - class, educated parents — and their young children — to city centers has caused some urban districts, like those in Philadelphia, Chicago, and Boston, to actively encourage these families to send their children to local district schools.

Donaldson says that TFA is often looked at like a «volunteer experience for upper, middle - class college graduates at the expense of working class children.»

Much prior research has focused on children from middle - to upper - class families, who in general tend to outpace those from low - income families in the rate at which their vocabulary size expands.

Many upper - middle - class parents are willing to have their children be «the first» white kids in a school and are comfortable with the idea of their child being a superminority.

The cultural differences between the newcomers and the old - timers in gentrifying neighborhoods can be easily, though inadequately, summarized: white, upper - middle - class families prefer a progressive and discursive style of interaction with their children, both at home and in school, and lower - income, nonwhite families prefer a traditional or authoritarian style of interaction with their children in these same venues.

The upper and middle classes send their children to school with all the accouterments of the culture of power; children from other kinds of families operate within perfectly wonderful and viable cultures but not cultures that carry the codes or rules of power.

Such may be the case for children from middle - and upper - class homes, but for those whose families can't afford camp or other activities, summer is often a time of emptiness and tedium.

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.

Unfortunately this has not proven to be the case, but that argument did make vouchers more acceptable so that now they are expanding beyond inner - city, low - income students to children of middle class and upper income families.

It found 6 % admitted attending church services when they did not previously do so, to get their child into a church school - including 10 % of upper - middle - class families surveyed.

· 6 % admitted attending church services when they didn't previously so their child could go to a church school, including 10 % in the upper middle classes

· 2 % of parents admitted to buying a second home and using that address so that their children could gain access to a specific school, including 5 % of the upper middle classes

Yes, sacrificing the have - nots by taking more educational dollars from already struggling public school Districts and sending them to upper class / upper middle class families who want to send their children to private schools.

In fact, gifted children, gifted people, occur in all sectors of the population, and occur more often in the larger middle and lower class sectors, than the supposedly privileged upper class described in The Bell Curve.

Teachers KNOW that a child from a middle and upper middle class home has an extreme advantage over a child from a poor home.

We need to devise ways of responding and coping with the inequities the division of computer access will be between poor children and the middle and upper class children.

Wealthy and upper middle - class parents have the financial means to move to their preferred public school district or to send their children to a non-public school.

Response While many schools that adopt Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) models are low - performing and do serve significant numbers of children from low - income families, there are also many mid-to-high performing schools using CSR models that serve children from middle and upper class families.

In his brief remarks, the former president did not once mention expanding preschool — the education plank that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a potential 2016 presidential contender, has embraced with a campaign focused on the «word gap» between what poor children and middle - and upper - class children hear in their earliest years.

Wealthy and upper middle - class parents have the financial means to send their child to a school of their choice or move to a different district when their assigned public school fails to meet their child's needs.

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

Parents both signed up children in activities where they would be surrounded by mostly lower class black children and sought out other middle class to upper - middle class black families to have dinners and birthday parties with (Pugh, 2009).

Children from black families in white suburbs are also set up for further success because they learn cultural characteristics of the white upper and middle classes, which are typically favored in American society.

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.

And then you: This is nothing like the church group accordion that the upper - middle - class men played (in lederhosen) when I was a child at Strawberry Fest in Long Grove, Illinois, when polka was still as exotic as whiskey.

She would stubbornly pursue her own quiet «tentativeness» (as the poet and art critic John Ashbery once put it), just as she would soon marry a businessman, move out of bohemia, build a house overlooking the ocean near the Hamptons, raise a child and pursue a more conventional upper middle class lifestyle.

Exceptions to this generalization were that lower class parents were more likely to endorse spanking as a response to an unsafe behavior on the part of the child, and middle / upper class parents reported higher levels of reward for positive behavior (Horn et al, 2004).