Sentences with phrase «working class kids»

Despite all the talk of helping working class kids «escape» their circumstances, grammar schools will be used as another stick to beat them with.

Even if we could double that proportion, there would still be a large majority of poor and working class kids needing another path to the middle class.

I saw how much the deck is stacked against working class kids before we even started.

For a long time (and even now here and there), American Catholic education, even for working class kids in South Philly or South Boston, was a lot more than middle class.

The film, which was cited for the truth of its social realism, treated a couple of working class kids in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and their difficulties.

Millions of working class kids like her are similarly crippled every year by a lack of support at home and at school.

Are these non-academic attributes just «extras» — luxuries that schools serving poor or working class kids just can't afford?

They describe persistently low expectations of the largely white, working class kids attending the school.

As Paul Tough points out in his recent New York Times article, «Rich kids graduate; poor and working class kids don't» the graduation rates for students from underrepresented communities are significantly higher at small liberal arts institutions, where students are encouraged to question the dominant discourse and develop their own policy perspectives.

Instead, policy is still heavily influenced by nostalgia for the days when working class kids (actually, just males) could leave school at Year 10 and be apprenticed to a trade, middle class kids could leave school at Year 12 and get a nice safe job in a bank, and universities were the preserve of an elite, either smart enough to jump the hoops to get in or with parents rich enough to pay

Thought his stuff on access to culture for working class kids, regional arts (1/2)

If May really wants to help working class kids she should focus her attention on improving standards at all schools, not just the ones which educate a select few.

Working class kids need to see people like themselves succeeding, but as report after report has shown, the tops jobs in the UK are overwhelmingly filled by people from elite educational and socio - economic backgrounds.

Caddyshack is one of the most beloved comedies of all time, a classic snobs vs. slobs story of working class kids and the white collar buffoons who make them haul their golf bags in the hot summer sun.

An example: «We need to bring back the 11 - plus exam so that bright, working class kids can once again have a chance at social mobility.

For the working class kids, who are already told they're at the bottom of society, grammar schools would be another reminder that they are below everybody else.

«A college degree is necessary for any chance at economic mobility and the Excelsior scholarships will help ensure that 200,000 middle and working class kids have a shot at a higher education without the anchor of debt weighing them down,» Lever said.

As Annette Lareau pointed out in Unequal Childhoods, affluent kids are scheduled to the hilt, while poor and working class kids» spare time is largely self - organized.