Sentences with phrase «upper middle class kids»

Given the same teachers, principal, building and school supplies, filling a school with upper middle class kids with involved parents will create a «good» school, while filling that same school with low income and minority kids with uneducated parents will probably create a «bad» school with low test scores, safety issues, and discipline problems.

«There are districts with every risk factor in the world that are seeing results much more exciting than schools taking upper middle class kids and not screwing them up,» Carr told Education World.

We still are talking about the majority, when the president of Harvard spoke on my campus last week, she was saying, there's still a big gap between kids of color and upper middle class white kids, that the majority of upper middle class kids, the top quarter, the majority get a college degree.

In excerpts from the interviews posted online, it sounds like the 23 - year - old is looking to make apologies and mend her ways.Growing up in New Jersey, Dupre says, she was a «happy» upper middle class kid.

Not exact matches

Kids well socialized by upper middle class parents are sensitive to these risks, and for the most part they keep their distance.

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

The first is what Canada calls the Conveyor Belt — a system that reaches kids early and then moves them through a seamless series of programs that try to re-create the invisible cocoon of support that surrounds middle - class and upper - middle - class kids throughout their childhoods.

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

I personally will never forget Denny Barrett, a middle or upper middle class father who is so food - ignorant that he feels he has no choice but to rely on fast food to feed his kids.

Most middle and upper - middle class people put their kids in Private Catholic schools though.

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

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.

She is one of the poorest kids in a student body drawn mostly from the upper - middle class but finds friendship with an overweight girl even lower than her on the economic ladder.

The muse for the character of Danny (played by Manchester by the Sea's Lucas Hedges), a skinny kid with a good singing voice from an upper - middle - class Irish Catholic family, was Gerwig's high school boyfriend, Connor Mickiewicz, who remembers making out with her in the McKinley Park rose garden, inspiring a key scene in the movie.

«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.

For states, that means closing gaps in achievement and making sure English - language learners and special education and low - income students have the same access to education as middle - class and upper - class college - bound kids.

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.

Those kids depend more than upper - middle - class youngsters on the public - education system.

This will diversify the qualifying population and not just favor upper - middle - class kids.

Still, this blend of devoted all - around instructors, rigorous expectations, and a paternalistic education culture was not confined to upper - middle - class kids in elite prep schools.

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

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.

Although there is some diversity represented in the film, the focus is on kids who are middle or upper middle class.

And those likeliest to be short - changed are poor kids and those without savvy, obsessive (and generally upper - middle class) parents.

In reality, however, this underrepresentation reflects the education system's own failure to identify such kids and counsel them into a sufficiency of classrooms, schools, and programs — a failure that inevitably advantages upper middle class youngsters with pushy, well - educated, well - connected parents.

The upper middle class is happy because they have extra money and their kids have an edge.

Those who grow up in poverty experience a very different upbringing from middle or upper class kids.

Smart kids from well - connected, upper - middle - class families more often than not will receive a solid education.

The man plies a middle - or upper - middle - class trade, and the woman works part - time or takes care of the kids.

Documentarians, reporters, and tastemakers to the middle - to - upper - class have done a pretty good job of shaming McDonald's over the years, for everything from its sheer unhealthiness to its support for factory farms to its brazen kid - targeting advertising.