Think of technology, he tells audiences, and how it has thinned the ranks of travel agents, bank clerks and other middle-class gateway jobs.
Daniel S. Hamermesh, an economics professor at the University of Texas at Austin, said he still considered higher education, particularly at state universities, a bargain for the middle class and a gateway for social mobility.
As a student at a Catholic high school for girls in Ireland in the early 1970's, she was one of only three students in an advanced mathematics class, a traditional gateway to the profession.
In the 1960s, corporate interests envisioned that San Francisco would become a "world class" city and gateway to the Pacific with with workers commuting in via BART and the highways from the suburbs.
Houston Davis, the chief academic officer of the University System of Georgia, with 314,000 students, said that while the system would start with just a handful of Coursera courses next fall, he hoped a full menu of general education courses — the gateway classes usually taken in a student's first two years — would eventually be available online through Coursera, for sharing by all the campuses.
It's more "second class substitute" than "modern gateway" say the Conservatives.
In case it is not set the framework uses the deployment class to determine the gateway placement.
Mr. Pataki, standing with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, former Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who championed the station project, and Rudy Umscheid, vice president of facilities for the post office, called the new station "a world-class, 21st-century landmark gateway to New York".
Van Nuys today is a working-class neighborhood, an affordable gateway for immigrants coming to work in L.A. and an area with an established culture and identity.
But the AP Computer Science class, which is often the gateway for both men and women to go into CS in college, is only offered at a handful of schools in the Bay Area.
Do we want to vote for Mitt Romney and open the door for public money going to private schools or do we vote for President Obama and open the door for everyone to wish they were going to private schools because we are going to gut everything that has made public schools the gateway to middle class success.
