Sentences with phrase «with middle class children»

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Look a the progressive things we've coming forward with — the Canada Child Benefit, the middle - class tax cut, the investments in affordable housing, the investments in early learning.»

We made it clear we need to make significant investments in infrastructure and middle - class families, so we talked about reducing the tax rate for middle - class families and increasing the child tax benefit to deal with the rising costs and anxieties.

By contrast to the so called middle - class tax cut which favours the more affluent, the CCB will have a positive impact upon the lamentably high rate of child poverty in Canada (which stood at 16.5 % in 2013), and will promote greater income equality among families with children.

Some of those observations also apply to much of the working and middle - classes, and especially families with minor children.

Prosecutors argued that Darlie, described as a pampered and materialistic woman, with substantial debt, plummeting credit ratings, and little money in the bank, feared that her middle class lifestyle was about to end and killed two of her children to rid herself of a financial burden.

Recent polls consistently show that African - Americans, especially poorer, inner - city people and those with school - age children favor vouchers more than do middle - class whites.

When I was young, middle class parents wished for their children a more comfortable and successful life, but one in continuity with the broad middle class consensus.

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.

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.

«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.»

But they are also being sidelined, with an increasing notion, especially among the let's - be-fashionable middle classes, of announcing that «you can't impose religion on a child».

As the oldest child in a stable middle class family, Luther endured a childhood of strict discipline at home, school and church that left him with a sense of inferiority, and emerged into university life at a time of great intellectual ferment that challenged the entire educational system as well as the corruptions of a politically powerful church.

Students in schools populated mostly by middle - class - and - above children were about equally likely to find themselves in a classroom with engaged and interesting instruction (47 percent of students) as in one with basic, repetitive instruction (53 percent of students).

Short, concrete, and reassuring talks with young children, more detailed talks with middle age children focusing on their concerns and questions, and digging deep with interested teenagers around issues of values, inequality, and class divisions.

His conclusion: if you want poor kids to be able to compete with their middle - class peers, you need to change everything in their lives — their schools, their neighborhoods, even the child - rearing practices of their parents.

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.

I think it is important to point out that this isn't just an issue for middle class families who care deeply about their child's diet and are able to provide abundant healthy food choices but school menus have great impact on many, many poor children who, through no fault of their own and often with no agency to change the situation, end up being pawns in the lunch tray wars.

We are not about to burden «the middle class» with an 18 fold increased chance of you delivering a defective child due to your stupidity and narcisisim.

Tough shows even the most naïve reader how difficult it is to grapple with the question of how to take an entire community of mostly disadvantaged children and mostly undereducated parents without financial resources and transform them — or at least the children as they grow — into fully functioning members of the middle class.

We are working with people from the community to provide safe, enriching, and engaging environments for children so they can develop just like their middle - class peers.

Today, President Obama outlined his plan to make affordable, quality child care available to every working and middle - class family with young children.

In repeated RCTs with samples ranging from clinically referred middle - class preschoolers to low - income Head Start preschoolers at risk for psychosocial adjustment, significant improvements have repeatedly been found one to two years following the intervention in promoting children's prosocial adjustment and reducing children's problem behaviours.

Gay fathers tend to be economically well - off, one means by which their children may garner social advantages relative to other children, while additional research has shown that children of gay fathers did not report differences in sex - typed behaviour compared with parents of other family configurations.58 A large literature shows that parents tend to transmit values to their children along socioeconomic status lines, with middle class parents typically imparting different values from parents in lower socioeconomic strata.59, 60 However, little of this work has examined fathers in particular, as distinct from mothers.

Heckman, a Nobel laureate, argues that ability gaps between middle - class and low - income children open up early in life, and that the skills they need to close that gap have more to do with personal traits than with knowledge acquisition.

So, the term «extended breastfeeding» assumes that the specific cultural and material conditions that middle - and upper - class contemporary Westerners experience — widespread misunderstanding and stigma surrounding women's breasts and children's biology; widespread availability of commercial formula; clean water to prepare it with; the time and space to wash, sterilize, and store bottles, and so forth — are «normal,» while literally everything that has ever existed outside of this limited cultural experience and relatively short, unique period in time is somehow abnormal.

The sentiment is commendable, except that a voluntary scheme would see only the usual suspects attending — the kids who do Duke of Edinburgh, the white middle - class children whose parents are obsessed with how things look on their Ucas form.

Children from poor backgrounds and ordinary middle class backgrounds should have the same opportunity to receive an elite education too, assuming they can cope with the standards required.

It is about further entrenching middle class privilege which, ultimately, leaves clever but poor children more likely to be stuck with a second - best option, while their less bright but well - tutored peers are gifted a better education.

«Working collaboratively with the Broome County Promise Zone, those interested in serving as mentors will be matched with children in schools that are part of CCPA's University - assisted community school effort, which aims to level the playing field for students from low - income families who lack some of the supports for academic success from which children from middle - class families benefit,» Bronstein said.

«Labor Day is a day we celebrate the great American work ethic and those hardworking men and women who struggled to provide us with workers» rights and deliver us today's landmarks of middle class security, including the 40 - hour work week, child labor laws, pensions, a minimum wage, Social Security and Medicare.

There's also a tax cut package that includes the distribution of $ 350 rebate checks to middle class families with children, to be distributed shortly before elections, as well as small business tax cuts.

The tax breaks, targeted for businesses and the middle class, include a phase out of a surcharge on utilities, and the distribution of $ 350 dollar checks, starting next year to every family with children up to the age of 18.

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The final budget, approved by state lawmakers on March 29, also extends the millionaire's tax another three years; hikes the minimum wage from $ 7.25 to $ 9 over three years; and promises $ 350 rebate checks to most middle - class families with children in 2014.

He said he will seek to expand a child care tax credit for the middle class and create an aftercare program that will begin with 22,000 new slots.

In addition, middle - class mothers reported being torn between their desire to spend quality time with their children and the expectation that they needed to provide the children with a home - cooked meal.

And they compared the sizes of these structures with those of 12 - year - old children who were raised in middle - class families and had not been abused.

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.

So, when the Victorians get their hands on him, Newton becomes a middle class, respectable gentleman who loved children and had a dog who he played with.

In it, a middle class couple with a young son discover he was switched at birth and must decide whether to keep raising him or to swap for their biological child who's been raised by poor parents in a small town.

In the Greek countryside, a wealthy middle - class businessman lives with his wife and three children: a son and two daughters (Angeliki Papoulia and Mary Tsoni).

«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.

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.

A few years» experience with these programs generated a vigorous public reaction, mainly from middle - class parents anxious about the intellectual vacuity of the new programs and the implications for the future of their children.

Lessons differentiated for High Ability (HA), Middle (MA), Low (LA) and Special Educational Needs children (SEN) Plans come with resources in the form of Powerpoint and publisher so you can edit them to suit the children in your class.

When a new Japanese family arrived in the middle of the school year, the origami instructors worked with the principal to encourage these children to sign up for their after - school class, where they could show off Japanese culture as experts while experiencing the comfort of using their own language in a classroom setting.

The Harvard study is the first examination of child - care availability in middle class and low - income neighborhoods in Massachusetts, particularly those with high concentrations of welfare recipients and single mothers.

Lots of research talks about what happens in the first few years of a kid's life and how poor children don't get the support and input — things as simple as language or as complicated as an outlook on life, self - esteem, and how you interact with institutions — that middle - class kids tend to get.

And the students of Whitwell Middle School are now educators too: School classes from all over the country are coming to Whitwell to see The Children's Holocaust Memorial with their own eyes.

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.