Sentences with phrase «white working class children»

A free school to open in Barnsley aims to raise the aspirations of white working class children - identified as the lowest - achieving group.

Mr Wood was giving evidence to the Commons education committee, which is investigating how to improve the performance of white working class children in primary and secondary schools.

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

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.

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.

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

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The New Yorker Book of Kids» Cartoons (2001) features only three cartoons with families of more than two children — one a family of fish, another of cats, and a third an obviously poor, white, working - class family.

Naturally, they preferred easy - to - control children from white middle - or working - class backgrounds.

Kelly Hogaboom: Cisgendered working - class white woman, wife and mother; two children, one husband, four cats (that's officially a «clowder» of cats), five laying hens.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

Though a child of the colonial civil servant caste, Denis is by sentiment and inclination one of the last viable working - class filmmakers in the white - collar west, and so it is only appropriate that her film should be capped off with an appearance by Depardieu, the hulking star of Maurice Pialat's Loulou (1980), that bruising film of interclass love.

Today's research tells us two new things: that underrepresentation is significantly higher for white and black working class children than it is for those from Chinese and other Asian communities.

When downwardly mobile white, working - class Americans hear us talking about education reform, it's a fair bet they don't think we're talking about them and their children.

We could have talked more about the J.D. Vance's of the world — the far too rare children of the white working class who make it to and through college, and what might be done to dramatically boost their numbers.

If children who are experiencing success in schools or for whom schools generally «work» (that is, white, middle - class, nondisabled children) don't participate in the assessment, their parents lose valuable information.

Created for mixed age SEN class of children with autism, roughly following Y3 white rose scheme of work.

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White working - class children need schools with incentives to attract high - quality teachers and longer days to allow pupils to do their homework, says a cross-party committee of MPs.

«Today's research tells us two new things: that under - representation is significantly higher for white and black working class children than it is for those from Chinese and other Asian communities.

There are also deeper cultural obstacles that many white working - class children have to contend with.

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