Sentences with phrase «upward mobility as»

They believe in upward mobility as something achieved primarily by individuals striving within a free, meritocratic society that doesn't place barriers in front of people but also doesn't do them special favors.

The Victorian experience set the stage for continuing Protestant expectations of upward mobility as signs of God's grace.

Our vision of maturing in the Christian life implies that upward mobility as middle - class achievers ought to take second place to the project of becoming upwardly mobile in terms of maturing in faith.

Not exact matches

The difference here is that the best and the brightest go to the army more often than the lower classes, as opposed to in America where it's a way for upward mobility.

An attractive culture is one that has transparency, camaraderie, upward mobility and constant education as part of it.

«As Hispanic Catholics in the U.S achieve upward mobility, they may become a little more conservative on social justice and concern for the poor,» Dillon says, «but currently many of the issues that are especially important to Catholics in Latin America are also very important to Hispanic Catholics in the U.S.»

The author of II Samuel presented the project of building a temple for Yahweh as an extension of David's own upward mobility.

Of all the empirically available stratification systems, class allows for the highest degree of social mobility (upward as well as downward).

More recently, with the Punjab as the locus of one of the most successful areas of the «green revolution,» the sect has experienced upward mobility accompanied by a new burst of militant fundamentalism.

The church may be the better for this — it has often been a more vital institution when pastors from humble origins saw its relatively modest rewards as a route to upward social mobility.

The neighborhoods were seen as staging areas for upward and outward mobility.

In the book, she writes about her journey away from the upward mobility trend of modern American, and down into the grime of life where, as it turns out, life is beautiful and full of wonder, glory, and grace.

Two elements in discipleship that become obsolete are concentration on the historical Jesus as Messiah and the illusion of upward mobility which clouds the kingdom his Messiahship serves.

It was seen as a cynical means of upward social or economic mobility.

The Conservative assumption was that as the immigrant population died out, European - style Orthodoxy would slowly disappear, a victim of upward social and economic mobility, acculturation, and Americanization, and that Conservative Judaism would fill the resulting vacuum.

Syracuse would have had more upward mobility in a different quadrant of the bracket, but it had the misfortune of being placed in the same region as ACC competitor and No. 2 seed Duke.

As such, mobility is an important factor for upward social mobility for middle class Americans, where they can increase their earnings and their life standards...

As such, mobility is an important factor for upward social mobility for middle class Americans, where they can increase their earnings and their life standards by moving to higher - earning jobs in dynamic regions.

As an ardent supporter of charter schools and education as a means to create upward mobility, Lavine is prepared to make a meaningful change in SyracusAs an ardent supporter of charter schools and education as a means to create upward mobility, Lavine is prepared to make a meaningful change in Syracusas a means to create upward mobility, Lavine is prepared to make a meaningful change in Syracuse.

«I realized the connection and how important this could be in creating real upward mobility in people's lives by just removing barriers, and certainly I had enough of a treasure trove of barriers that were put before me as an African American woman and certainly African - American women that came before me,» she said.

«As an African - American I'm a big believer in upward mobility and that the government has a big role, a proactive role in advancing that upward mobility,» said Peebles.

Clinton's emergence this autumn as a strong Democratic candidate and a formidable contrast to a crowded Republican field afforded Cuomo the breathing room to bulk up his profile, both in New York and nationally, without any serious accusations of immediate upward mobility.

But in the Soviet version of upward mobility, the next generation of Communist Party functionaries had risen from the bottom of the proletariat, sons and daughters of the peasantry suddenly catapulted into the twentieth century, as Khrushchev himself conceded with remarkable candor.

As long as black workers continue to enter the public sector workforce, Laird said, it will continue to offer them type of upward mobility it long haAs long as black workers continue to enter the public sector workforce, Laird said, it will continue to offer them type of upward mobility it long haas black workers continue to enter the public sector workforce, Laird said, it will continue to offer them type of upward mobility it long has.

It's well known that economic growth or the desire to achieve it can drive language loss, he notes — dominant languages such as Mandarin Chinese and English are often required for upward mobility in education and business, and economic assistance often encourages recipients to speak dominant languages.

«Once we consider how important schools are to American ideas about economic opportunity and upward mobility, we can better understand why school settings are revealed in our research as focal points of violent responses to increased unemployment,» said Hagan, who also is a research professor at the American Bar Foundation.

Career mobility can be upward as well as sideways.

Even though inequality has lately come to the fore as a public issue, two widely held American beliefs persist — first, that the U.S. is largely a classless society and, second, that people shed or discard the vestiges of their social class roots when they achieve upward mobility.

These tales of upward mobility seem at odds with Mr. Pérez - Rey's choice to include a clip from the 1983 remake of «Scarface,» in which Al Pacino, playing a Marielito thug, introduces a machine gun as his «little friend.»

After hitting us with the raw facts of the crime, as well as a phone call in which he attempts to connect with the original prosecutor and is stone - walled by her cold refusal to talk, Ford goes back into his family's history to unveil a story of racism and optimism, of what hope and hardship and upward mobility meant to a working - class African - American family in the middle of the century.

When boiled down, the film feels like an indictment of class stricture, and even Haemi's choice of lover seems to double as a binary decision for cosy squalor or fast - tracked upward mobility.

At its best, this entertaining biopic looks past the headlines to deeper questions of class and upward mobility, as Harding faces off against not just the other skaters, but also judges and promoters who resent someone of her low - income upbringing dominating the sport.

Named as such for the box he wears, Eggs knows little of the world above, but must learn quickly when the machinations of an exterminator named Snatcher (voiced like a sewage - y river by Ben Kingsley) with upward mobility on his mind threaten the very lives of his adopted family of «monsters.»

At a time when the national conversation is focused on lagging upward mobility, it is no surprise that many educators point to poverty as the explanation for mediocre test scores among U.S. students compared to those of students in other countries.

There are myriad recommendations in the book, which Mike boils down into three major themes: First, balance our fixation on college completion with renewed attention to career and technical education; next prioritize the needs of «strivers» — the low - income students who are working hardest to make it to the middle class; finally, encourage all students to follow the «success sequence» — including delaying parenthood — as the surest means of avoiding pitfalls that push kids off the path to upward mobility.

They said things like, «I'm a workaholic, and I love it,» «I work seven days a week, twelve hours a day, and I'm never bored,» «I've had three jobs at a time since I was a teen,» «My family showed me work ethic,» and «As a kid, I was taught to believe in upward mobility.»

These differences also correlate with important long - run economic outcomes as documented in a new work by Chetty and co-authors, where they find suggestive evidence that «quality of schools — as judged by outputs rather than inputs — plays a role in upward mobility.»

As Clark notes, «for much of the early 20th century, Dayton was known for innovation, opportunity and upward mobility.»

As I write in my new book, Education for Upward Mobility, these strivers deserve to be top priorities too.

As he said in a speech in Buffalo, New York, on August 22, 2013, «higher education is still the best ticket to upward mobility in America.»

For starters, letting go of a misplaced nostalgia for the «good old days» of the «traditional» school, as well as the belief that American schools have always been engines of upward mobility.

Licensing laws now guard entry into hundreds of occupations, including jobs that offer upward mobility to those of modest means, such as cosmetologist, auctioneer, athletic trainer and landscape contractor.

Ours is a simple proposal: to use education — vastly improved and powerful education — as the principal vehicle for upward mobility.

She serves professionally as an expert witness for the California Assembly Higher Education Committee, California Senate Education Committee, for civil rights organizations on issues of access, equity and discrimination and for select committees on financial aid, workforce training, accreditation and programs in support of upward mobility and student success.

Furthermore, by supporting career pathways, schools and districts can mitigate one of the primary reasons for teacher attrition: a lack of upward mobility in the teaching profession.49 Mid-career teachers are especially interested in «hybrid teaching roles,» which provide teachers with leadership opportunities while allowing them to continue working with students part - time in the classroom.50 An added benefit of hybrid teaching roles is that they expand the responsibilities inherent to a teacher's career, enhancing how teachers are perceived as professionals and providing a rationale for higher teacher salaries.

In the beginning, Roger was pretty insufferable, with his obsession with upward mobility and appearances and, while I warmed to him throughout the book, I found myself wondering how someone so wonderful as Major Pettigrew would have an offspring like Roger.

Education can provide upward mobility and a comfortable life for your children, but at ten of thousands of dollars a year, your kids» tuition (as well as room and board, textbooks and all the other costs of college) is often one of the biggest expenses of your adult life.

From barbarous jabs swapped between friends, to quiet riverside reflections about inaccessible upward class mobility, to sheepishly confessed thoughts on God's real estate, Hockenberry and Benson have written a game which easily sits next to the likes of Oxenfree, Gone Home, and Kentucky Route Zero as a modern day classic.

Born in the city in 1927, he belongs to a remarkably self - creative generation, which has included such singular individuals as Frank O'Hara and Edwin Denby, whose urbane voices and visions became inextricably identified with the realigning echelons of post-war American upward mobility.

The phrase would be picked up almost 70 years later when American cigarette brands tried to engineer the same gender revolution in emerging markets in Asia and Africa, presenting cigarettes as symbols of freedom, upward mobility, and gender equality.