On this night the class is making a cucumber salad, chicken satay with spicy peanut sauce and stir-fried beef with graprao basil.

VOA: special.2010.12.27

This writer is best known for his novels about the private lives of small-town, middle class Americans.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

In class on this day, with her baby son,is Natasha.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

He would try to explain it this way when students asked for a top grade just for studying hard in chemistry class: What if a baseball player came to spring training and worked harder than all the others, but still could not play well.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

He comes from an upper-middle class family. Neighbors in this town of 5,000 are saddened by the news.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

Class Valedictorian Melissa Diaz, whose mom also graduated from Hostos, had this to say about tonight's "local girl makes very very good" story.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

Johnson says this kind of inaccurate word choice is happening so often now that she devotes a section of her class to the problem.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

"She is,in fact,the American dream. Out of a housing project comes this women who ends up at the top of her class at Princeton .

VOA: standard.2009.05.31

And this is also where you have a major emerging middle-class market,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

"As you can say for this demonstration I think they should focus more - I mean truly focus - on what the working class or the labor unions really need."

VOA: standard.2009.03.09

And I think that every little bit makes a huge difference." While his class wrapped up, students for the next computer class, to be taught in Spanish,filed in, reflecting the diversity of this community, as well as its shared needs.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24