If you want to have power in this society you must master the three literacies this is a class about power,your power."

VOA: special.2009.04.27

"When a teacher comes into the class you have to stand up and greet the teacher.

VOA: special.2009.11.05

Critics say the national exam is biased, since it presumes a level of knowledge and cultural background that students from working class families may not have.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

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

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

"We have just come through what was one of the most difficult decades the middle class has ever faced a decade in which median income fell, and our economy lost about as many jobs as it gained,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.25