Sentences with phrase «white working class»

He also drew attention to the plight of white working class boys, saying this group was being left behind.

We need a more concerted effort with white working class boys, in particular.

If there has to be positive discrimination then it should be for white working class women, unfortunately they are few and far between in local Labour parties these days.

But he believes that white working class children will soon be fighting against immigrants and he is concerned about the future of his children.

These tended to be predominantly white working class areas.

This report compares the retirement assets of top CEOs with those of all African - American, Latino, female - headed, and white working class households.

The schools most likely to have low attainment, low gain, and low closing - the - gap scores were schools with high percentages of white working class males.

A new report calculates the gap in retirement assets between the top 100 CEOs and all African - American, Latino, female - headed, and white working class households.

The analysis, published by the Sutton Trust, focusses on the attainment of pupils at aged 16 and found Chinese pupils from disadvantaged homes are almost three times as likely as white working class pupils to get five good GCSEs.

They warned a packed audience that Labour is in danger of turning its back on its traditional voters and the party has to do more to connect with white working class voters in historically Labour constituencies if it is to have any chance of winning power.

Chinese pupils from disadvantaged homes are almost three times as likely as white working class pupils to get five good GCSEs, according to new analysis published by the Sutton Trust today.

«And so it's far easier to win the Midwestern white working class vote when your opponent is private equity - personified Mitt Romney rather than a Jacksonian populist like Donald Trump.»

Chris Wood told MPs Ofsted was now urging schools to focus on white working class children, amid concerns they are getting a raw deal.

«Harnessing that same will to learn that we see in many ethnic minority groups in white working class communities should be a part of the solution to the low attainment of many boys and girls.

Attainment in UK schools among disadvantaged pupils varies dramatically between different ethnicities, with white working class boys achieving the lowest GCSE grades, according to new analysis.

Throughout western Europe social democratic parties have lost most of their traditional white working class base, mostly to right - wing populist parties or non-voting.

The report - Underachievement in Education by White Working Class Children - identifies this as a «real and persistent» problem.

'' [White working class people] would like the Labour leader and me to be cheering on the England rugby team... with a flag with a shirt and shorts drinking a beer like they're doing.

John Mann MP has said that Corbyn must answer the, «Bolsover question» of why there were huge swings against Labour in white working class seats and said that Labour simply can not ever win a majority unless their concerns are heeded.

Continue reading «Ali Miraj: It's perfectly rational for the ignored white working class to vote BNP»»

In light of this analysis, the Sutton Trust is calling for a renewed effort to close the attainment gap, recommending that: - Schools implement targeted improvement programmes for those students at particular risk of falling behind, including white working class children.

In fact, with the possible exception of minority boys from the Caribbean, schools whose student population had shifted from white working class to minority were usually schools with high gain scores.

Backbencher Jess Phillips said the party had to look at what had gone wrong in white working class areas in northern England, while Chuka Umunna called for an internal inquiry into the party's campaign, to look at why expected gains hadn't materialised.

The Labour left is now becoming more and more like Private Eye's swivel eyed Trotskyist Dave Spart hurling abuse at the mostly white working class Labour voters and calling them xenophobic racists amongst other things the latter being the most polite.

Third, white working class Americans — often former Reagan Democrats — are increasingly moving away from the Republican core message.

Angela Rayner's clumsy interview blamed a race and equality agenda for failing white working class boys - but it's government, not minorities, who are to blame

For some of Labour's core white working class supporters, a defence of an outward - looking Britain would be seen as precisely the metropolitan elitism Farage is so adept at criticising.

In recent weeks, John Mann and Simon Danczuk have expressed reservations over the new regime's ability to attract white working class voters in northern seats.

He would have taken a good percentage of the Wallace white working class vote, enough to beat Nixon.

This was at a time when Little Britain's Vicky Pollard and Catherine Tate's Lauren Cooper were on our screens - characters that, in 2006, a survey found that 70 % of TV industry professionals believed were an accurate reflection of white working class young people.

This takes us to what might prove the biggest problem of all: that four ex-wonks with limited life experience may not be the best people to divine what exactly it is that the fabled white working class is after.

A similar situation of course exists in the post-industrial white working class seats scattered across County Durham and South Yorkshire.

Report from King's College London examines why so few white working class boys go on to higher education and how this can be addressed.

Recommendations from the report include calling for parents to be part of the effort to increase white working class boys» participation in HE, as well as how encouragement should begin at primary school.

The government's pupil premium scheme, which gives more money to schools for each child on free school meals, should also be more focused on aiding white working class children, he added.

Representatives of Leicester City Council told MPs that there were parts of the city where «white working class culture is characterised by low aspirations and negative attitudes towards education».

A black painting by Frank Stella appears with scenes of white working class America by Charles Demuth, Elsie Driggs, Margaret Bourke - White, and Dorothea Lange because, among other reasons, Stella applied house paint.

Recycling Warhol's car crash paintings from the Pop artist's «Death and Disaster» series, which in turn were appropriated from photographs of fatal accidents in newspapers, Turk swaps Warhol's American car with a white van, a symbol of a certain British white working class, now dying its own kind of slow death as the demand for blue - collar labor begins to diminish.

Director of Widening Participation at King's College London Anne - Marie Canning said: «This important report is essential in helping schools and universities improve the progression rates for white working class pupils to higher education.

Elements primary, which plans to open in September 2015, will serve an area of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, with a «predominantly white working class community», where more than half the pupils will be expected to be eligible for free school meals.

Meanwhile, just 28 % of white working class boys who receive free school meals achieve five GCSEs at grade C or above.

But like most of upstate New York, it remains predominantly white working class and struggles with unemployment, drug addiction, population decline and various forms of rural, urban and exurban decay.

The report recommends that working with white working class pupils from an early age and engaging parents are key in ensuring all young people have the opportunity to participate in higher education.»

I wrote a piece, «Why it is perfectly rational for the ignored white working class to vote BNP», for this site back in July 2008, a year before the BNP's success in the European elections.

Schools implement targeted improvement programmes for those students at particular risk of falling behind, including white working class children.

Backbencher Jess Phillips said the party had to look at what had gone wrong in white working class areas in northern England while Chuka Umunna called for an election «post-mortem» to look at why expected gains hadn't materialised.