According to an academic paper published recently, people born soon after the second world war were much more likely to move out of their parents' class than those born in later decades.
How generous of Hillary Clinton to help out middle-class parents crushed by college bills.
And that was after an email discussion among class parents that week about her allergies.
Most middle-class parents can't afford a few hundred bucks a week for a private preschool.
The son of working-class parents, Greene paid his way through Johns Hopkins by selling circus tickets over the phone.
The terms are necessary as a sop to middle-class parents concerned that their children are not being stretched enough.
Miss Werner was a woman of leisure, well-spoken, and had been given a good education by her middle-class parents.
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In short, poor children would lose out and hard-pressed middle-class parents would suffer more, while the rich would hardly notice.
Babies born to working-class mothers were twice as likely to die before their first birthday as those with middle-class parents.
Middle-class parents still move out of the city into the suburbs when their children reach school-age because they mistrust Chicago's public schools.
In fact, Mr Hague has middle-class parents, went to an ordinary state school and is claimed to prefer a pint of beer.
Suburban schools are generally better because middle-class parents effectively employ choice by deciding where to live and in having the means to consider alternatives.
In choosing to embrace the Journal's view, Romney may have sacrificed an opportunity to connect with cash-strapped middle class parents, including many independents and Democrats.
Any middle-class parents would like to see their children become professionals like doctors or engineers or accountants or IT specialists -- and not professional athletes.
In countries such as Britain and America a child's prospects depend more on its parents' social class than in egalitarian societies, according to OECD data.
Yet the mayor realises where the proof of the pudding lies: whether middle-class parents en masse will feel happy to send their children to inner-city schools.
But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition.
British middle-class parents are now looking with increasing interest at American universities, which they see as better, fairer and not much more expensive than the local option.
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Jack Harrington, an investment banker living in Nashville, was part of a group of mainly middle-class parents who gathered this year to research bringing charters to their communities.
The willingness of middle-class parents to put time and money into extra tuition for their children meant a fair test at age 11 was impossible to design, he said.
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The action takes place in Delhi, where a pair of middle-class parents (Lillete Dubey and Naseeruddin Shah) work themselves into a froth over the nuptials of their daughter (Vasundhara Das).
In publicising the "middle class parents on skiing holidays" issue, the department was just trying to make the point that it is not only dysfunctional families that are in the frame.
Middle-class parents cannot afford treats for their children.
David Willetts, the universities minister, argues that grammar schools entrench privilege because middle-class parents now prepare their children so well for the entrance exams that clever children who have not been coached do not pass.
Now, a growing chorus of middle-class parents say they're bringing that sensibility to family life, cutting back on all the music lessons, sports practices and summer camps and trying to enjoy life more by doing less.
Born in 1968 in the town of Hisar in the northern state of Haryana to middle-class parents, Mr Kejriwal graduated from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kharagpur with a degree in mechanical engineering.
Then came middle-class parents (S-CHIP).
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But as the charter movement expands, and more middle-class parents become disenchanted with local public schools, charter operators have pushed to open schools in middle-income and suburban communities, triggering battles in such places as New Jersey and New York similar to that seen in Nashville.
Proposed in January in a White Paper on higher education, the idea aroused a mixture of despair (from universities that think they already do everything possible to attract the miserably small number of qualified but underprivileged applicants available) and fury (from middle-class parents, who felt thrift and diligence were being penalised).
That is the unappetising prospect that Oxford is presenting to the worried, ambitious parents of the middle class.
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