Sentences with phrase «white middle class families»

Keep in mind that much of Baumrind's original research was based on white middle class families.

Hence, many studies have also shown that Asian ethnic minority families who practice something similar to authoritarian parenting (a parenting style which scored poorly to mediocre in the studies of white middle class families) apparently result in children who excel both academically and socially.

And so, black middle class families are driven to black middle class suburbs and white middle class families are not (Lacy, 2007).

Because white middle class families who represent a large portion of the housing market are reluctant to pursue homes in black neighborhoods, property values tend to fall if a neighborhood becomes majority black and remain low compared to white neighborhoods (Fletcher, 2015).

In the late 1970s, 69 % of black middle class families (defined by occupation) had wives that were employed compared to only 51.6 % of white middle class families (Landry, 1978).

On one hand, there is the desire to cement their financial capability to be among white middle class families.

Making the case that choice allows for all families, poor or middle class, to meet the particular needs of their children can win support, especially from white middle class families who realize that how they are hurt by school zones and other Zip Code Education policies (and are also condescended by teachers and school leaders when they want more for their kids), but don't see any other way to avoid those problems beyond paying for private schools out their own pockets.

In modern times, the net median household wealth for a white middle class family was $ 141,900 in 2013 compared to only $ 11,000 for a black middle class family (Reeves, 2013).

Not exact matches

«The president is going to continue to look for partners on Capitol Hill, Democrats or Republicans, who are willing to work with him on policies that benefit middle - class families,» White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Tuesday.

Obama cited statistics released the same day in the White House's new report from his Council of Economic Advisers which show that conflicts likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on retirement savings as well as $ 17 billion of losses every year for working and middle - class families.

Conflicts of interest likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on the retirement savings of middle - class families, according to a recent report by the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).

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The common wisdom of church developers at the time was simple: where there is a pool of white, middle - class, home - owning families with children, mainline churches are likely to grow, no matter what their theological orientation.

The implicit old - line mark of a work of God is birth into a white middle - class Protestant family.

«Where there is a pool of white, middle - class, home - owning families - with - children on which to draw, mainline churches are likely to grow, no matter what their theological orientation.»

David was born into a white middle - class preacher's family.

From the outside looking in, this is a white, middle - class movement trying to educate other populations about what is good for them while ignoring the structural inequalities that make breastfeeding a pipe dream or a total impossibility for less privileged families.

When I met my husband, white and middle - class and from one of those Cleaver - like happy families, I knew I'd have to start keeping my Scrooge side in check.

The respondents were almost uniformly white children from middle - class families, so the results don't tell us much about the longevity of other groups.

She identifies as white European American and grew up in a middle class family in the hills of southern Michigan.

Opponents warn that it will drive poorer families from city centres, with some suggesting it would turn London into Paris, where the centre of the city is populated predominantly by white, middle - class families.

Debra Smith, head of the family and community advocacy committee of the Erie County Opiate Epidemic Task Force, acknowledges the opioid epidemic has become more of an issue for white, middle - class people.

However, those families who do have the material resources associated with middle - class status tend to invest in their children's education at similar or higher levels than their white counterparts,» says Merolla.

The researchers found that 37.5 percent of white students are from middle - class families, compared to 15.7 percent of blacks.

In the 2000s and ever since, prescription opioids and backyard - cooked methamphetamine's are devastating lives and families amongst rural, white, working and middle class communities.

It's just business, a private contract with a cash payoff (the family straddles middle class aspirations and working class nervousness and the money is too good to pass up), but it's beginning of the white lies, hidden truths and bad decisions that spiral out of the father's absence.

The Browns are a white middle - class family who live in a magnificent Victorian townhouse on a fictional street in west London called «Windsor Gardens».

Plot: Rose Armitage (Alison Williams) comes from a well - to - do, white, middle class family and goes upstate to visit her parent's for the weekend with her black boyfriend Chris (Daniel Kaluuya).

The film opens as the interracial couple are getting ready to travel up to her family home in a lily - white, upper - middle - class enclave.

And if takes him a white middle - class family living in an expensive home attempting to find The One while swearing like common folk to tackle such ambitious topics, then screw it, darling, there's no use crying over spilt champagne on the billiards table.

Moonrise Kingdom Year: 2012 Director: Wes Anderson At the time of making Moonrise Kingdom, after seven features, Wes Anderson became unmistakable: white, upper - middle - class dysfunctional families deadpan wry dialogue amid meticulous mise - en - scène to an eclectic soundtrack.

But I'm worried that such statements, when taken together, give the impression that education reform believes that the opinions of white or middle - class families should be viewed with skepticism or antipathy.

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.

In fact, district efforts to «recruit» middle - class white families can further marginalize existing low - income, minority students and families, and lead to further segregation if white and middle - class families cluster in the same schools.

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.

Should an urban district pander to white, middle - class families — at the expense of poor, minority families — in order to boost the achievement of all schools?

I'm white, I came from a middle - class family, I went to a public school.

Piney Branch Elementary serves an incredibly diverse group of 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders, from the children of übereducated white and black middle - class families, to poor immigrant children from Latin America, Ethiopia, and Eritrea, to low - income African American kids.

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.

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.

However, Moe does not point out that core constituents of the Republican party — middle - class and white families in suburbs — also disagree with their party elites on choice.

Thus, taking travel distance and local neighborhood demographics into account, a public school of choice that over represents white middle - class students based on the results of unconstrained lotteries might, instead, dispense offers of admission based on lotteries in which students from low - income families or families from neighborhoods in which blacks predominate have higher odds of selection.

Many factors have contributed to this steep decline: in the 1960s and 1970s, white middle - class families fled to the suburbs, taking with them tuition dollars and tithes and leaving behind poorer, primarily non-Catholic populations.

A large number of black middle - class families also reside in low - income neighborhoods, and as a result, their children are more likely to attend low - income schools compared to white, middle - class families.46

This private school choice is somewhat ironic, given that New York Public School officials originally established gifted and talented programs to help keep more white and middle - class families in public schools.

«In our nation's public schools today, most teachers are white, middle class, and female, while most of their students» families are people of color living in low - income neighborhoods.

The rules requiring waiver states to submit plans for providing poor and minority children with high - quality teachers was unworkable because it doesn't address the supply problem at the heart of the teacher quality issues facing American public education; the fact that state education departments would have to battle with teachers» union affiliates, suburban districts, and the middle - class white families those districts serve made the entire concept a non-starter.

In my neighborhood, charter schools marketed themselves to white, middle class families as a way to send their kids to school without «those kids».

According to the White House Fact Sheet on Obama's educational plan, children from low - income families are less likely to have access to pre-kindergarten programs, and middle - class families also struggle to afford private pre-school programs, yet these programs are critical to children's long - term school success.

He also warned that some faith schools were inadvertently using criteria that benefited white middle - class families.