Sentences with phrase «upper school classes»

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I'm 13, live in an upper middle - class family, have good grades in school, and wan't to start planning out my future now.

So after real estate imploded and bottomed out, I bought a nice house in an upper middle class neighborhood with great schools.

On the upper classes in the school I found they were just like protestants and catolics, fighting about who of them were right.

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.

Meta - analyses also indicate that young people of low socioeconomic status benefit more from attending these schools than do students from the middle and upper classes.

There they were in the illustrations to the antiquated children's biblical histories handed down from class to class in my parochial school; exotic, powerful female creatures with their veils and sandals and the bracelets they wore on their upper arms and ankles as well as on their wrists.

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.

The schools are good there, they said, which is true, and also a euphemism for an incalculable range of social and cultural benefits that flow from being raised in the upper middle class.

Charlie Himmelstein was 19, lived in an upper - middle class neighborhood in Brooklyn, a nursery school teacher and college dropout, when he lost in the novice division of the New York Golden Gloves.

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.

This Course is Recommended for We strongly recommend this course for all practicing class teachers, especially those who are slated to teach upper grade school science.

Michael D'Aleo left a career in engineering to become an upper grades class teacher before helping to found the high school at the Waldorf School of Saratoga Spschool at the Waldorf School of Saratoga SpSchool of Saratoga Springs.

The upper school will graduate its first class of seniors in June 2018.

Many schools in middle to upper - middle class neighborhoods have high enough F&R eligibility that they have to participate in NSLP.

The Waldorf School of Princeton is seeking class teachers for upper and lower grades positions, beginning July 2018.

Born in New York City to wealthy upper - middle class English parents, Johnson was educated at the European School of Brussels, Ashdown House School, and Eton College.

He branded David Cameron «the most facile, superficial prime minister there's ever been», Boris Johnson a «public school upper class twit» and Alex Salmond a «silly, pompous prat».

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

It's that time of year again, when upper - middle class white parents get worked up about tests in school.

UPPER WEST SIDE — Education leaders and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer are calling on the Department of Education to revise the construction timetable for the new Beacon High School in Hell's Kitchen, saying the proposed move - in dates a week before classes begin don't provide enough wiggle room.

My SO comes from upper middle class, went to private school,.

I have taught at schools on both ends of the spectrum, from at - risk to schools who serve mostly upper - middle class.

Blanchett is at her best with the characters who are erudite, middle or upper class: a CEO, a TV news reader, a primary - school teacher.

Santiago, Chile, 1973: Pedro Machuca is a poor boy of tribal descent, brought into an upper class private school during Chile's brief socialist era.

The tight - knit but tense atmosphere around the upper - middle - class Jacobs clan, however — parents Pat (Edie Falco) and Alan (John Turturro), adult daughter Dana (Slate) and still - at - home high schooler Ali (Abby Quinn)-- is emotionally timeless.

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

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.

Wearing elegant hats and looking regal in furs, Carol is an upper - class housewife, a composition in social restraint and prep school hauteur.

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.

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.

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.

Many elementary classes start each morning with a meeting that sets the stage for the learning that will occur during the day, but more and more middle schools are finding that this social experience is just, if not more, important in upper grades.

On a sunny day in April, the K - 8 school looks more like a country club nestled at the edge of a wilderness area and upper - middle - class residential neighborhood than a public school.

At these rapidly changing schools, mostly white, middle - and upper - middle - class families are pushing out poor or working - class «out of boundary» minority families.

Many of these new schools are focused on solving one of our society's most intractable problems: how to close the achievement gap between low - income minority students in our nation's inner cities and their white middle - and upper - class contemporaries in the suburbs.

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.

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.

This teacher guide for class meetings is a complete curriculum for upper elementary and middle school classrooms.

Obama's main education issue had become student loans and the rising cost of a university education, a topic far distant from school reform but one of great interest to present and future members of the upper middle class.

«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.

The webquest can be completed in one class period and is geared for upper elementary and middle school...

Paul Aldridge, upper school teacher at Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, created a freshman elective — based on an old speech class — in which students create substantive, cross-curricular proschool teacher at Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, created a freshman elective — based on an old speech class — in which students create substantive, cross-curricular proSchool in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, created a freshman elective — based on an old speech class — in which students create substantive, cross-curricular projects.

The reaction of the principal in a gentrifying neighborhood's school to the arrival of more - demanding parents largely determined whether the white, upper - middle - class families stayed at the school in spite of the yelling and other incidents, or left.

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.

In fact, the three upper classes have the option to leave school for lunch, and many do grab something from the fast - food outlets near Fenway Park (about a hundred yards away).

After interviewing more than 50 of these gentrifiers about their school - choice process, I concluded that it is the substantive differences in parenting styles between the white, upper - middle - class parents and the nonwhite, less - affluent parents that are hindering school integration, as these parenting styles directly affect school culture and expectations.

The teachers in predominantly poor, minority schools, who are reportedly mostly black and have adopted the more teacher - centered, authoritarian style of instruction that they view as appropriate for their students, are turning off white, upper - middle - class parents who want school climates similar to their own progressive homes, where problems are discussed.

Needham High School's seniors, mostly from upper - middle - class families, were graduating without knowing the parts of speech or parts of a sentence.

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.