Sentences with phrase «upper middle class community»

The data were collected from 506 (50 % female) middle school students from a predominately white, upper middle class community.

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As a former activist, she believes that it's hard to reach lower - income communities if you have a staff that's upper middle class.

Those who choose this approach must beware lest they end up as self - centered and self - righteous communities of upper middle class people playing at being poor, preoccupied with their own problems and contributing little or nothing to helping others or to resolving the world's problems.

A congregation of moderate size located in an upper - middle - class bedroom community in New England, Wiltshire offered the scholars a chance to demonstrate the range of insight that could be gained through the use of their specific disciplines in the service of congregational analysis.

To be sure, the Christian community to whom Paul wrote was not exactly the upper class of this metropolis; in all likelihood, its members were mostly what we would today call lower middle class.

The researchers set out to look at the relationship between homework load and student well - being in the upper middle class advantaged communities (where median household income is more than $ 90,000, and 93 percent of students go to college) because it is there that homework is largely accepted as having value.

«Working, middle and upper class communities should have the ability to enjoy this resource equally,» Rodriguez said at the meeting, according to AM New York.

Growing up in an upper - middle - class community in Munich, he was, he says, a «very, very, very bad kid.»

While socioeconomic status is a major contributor to the greater burden of heart disease and stroke in African Americans, the statement notes that among the growing middle - and upper - class African American community, health outcomes are still poorer in African Americans, even when their socioeconomic status is comparable to white Americans.

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.

And in many middle - and upper - middle class communities, according to psychologist Richard Weissbourd, today's most «potent ingredient» is «achievement pressure» — the pressure to excel across academic subjects and a wide range of extracurriculars, culminating in the stress of putting together an impeccable college admissions package.

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.

Decreasing excessive achievement pressure in middle - and upper - class communities.

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.

Even in upper - middle - class communities, not all parents want the same things for their kids.

Those in opposition to free community college argue that beneficiaries end up coming from upper - middle class backgrounds rather than low - income households.

The activity can be used in a variety of social studies lessons — from an exploration of the local community to a class on international studies — and in both the upper elementary grades and middle school.

For middle and upper class Americans, «summer vacation» frequently entails family vacations, camps and local enrichment programs (sports / arts / music) provided privately or by community - based organizations.

In support of the academic mission, the schools work constantly to inculcate decorum and refinement, according to the unspoken rules of deportment that characterize middle - and upper - class families, schools, and communities.

The community of Mount Prospect is described as an «upper middle class village» in the Cook County area of the Chicagoland suburbs.

Regarding the latter, Mourão's incorporation of quotidian items is more than an aesthetic decision; these elements offer social commentary and satirize living conditions in some of Brazil's urban centers, where upper - and middle - class families reside in gated neighborhoods, fenced off from the larger community.

I am referring here to a section of London's contemporary arts community comprising largely, but not exclusively, white middle - or upper - middle - class artists; a section unburdened by histories of oppression, suffused with privilege and the necessary leisure time available for seekership.

The tapestries, which were woven on a computerized loom, are the result of a tour of England Perry made last year for a three - part television documentary on taste, for which he embedded himself in a working - class industrial town, a middle - class housing estate, and an upper - class rural community.

Farmer's markets remain entrenched in middle and upper class communities.

It has been suggested that cultural ideals for thinness that exist in White middle and upper - middle class communities are in direct conflict with the normal increases in body fat that occur during puberty.

More comprehensive childhood adversity measures exist but may not reflect inner - city youth experiences, as these measures were designed from interviews with mostly white, middle to upper middle class youth from rural and suburban communities.29 — 36

(Swartz, 2012) Historically, the development of the DV shelter movement and community - based interventions emerged from predominantly Caucasian populations with an upper - middle class socioeconomic status.

In fact, Snyder's research revealed a pattern: Gated communities first appear in an area at the upper end and then «explode» at a variety of price points, including middle - class developments.