Sentences with phrase «despite less education»

Despite less education on average, a higher poverty rate, and more limited access to health care, U.S. Hispanics tend to live the longest.

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You believe that priests are only in it for the money, despite the fact that they make less than almost anyone else with their level of education.

Despite the widened socioeconomic inequalities by the intervention in rates of prolonged exclusive and any breastfeeding, breastfeeding rates were even higher among mothers with the lowest education (secondary school or less) in the intervention group than they were among mothers who completed university in the control group.

So basically if I understand well, the major difference is that people are overall less healthy, poorer, and the public education is weaker, so that's the major cause for a slightly lower democracy index, despite fully democratic institutions and guaranteed civil liberties?

Despite a $ 52 million budget last fiscal year, the NYC DOE's Office of Adult and Continuing Education, OACE, says it awarded only 150 diplomas — less than half as many as the year before.

«Despite claims that e-cigarettes are helping people quit smoking, we found that e-cigarettes were associated with more, not less, cigarette smoking among adolescents,» said lead author Lauren Dutra, a postdoctoral fellow at the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education.

However, despite the gains in life expectancy seen across China, thought to be linked to increasing GDP and improved maternal education, large inequalities between provinces remain, with life expectancy around 10 years lower for both men and women in some provinces in the west part of China, comparable to less developed countries like Bangladesh.

The bigots on the one side are easy to identify and dismiss for their ignorance and fear, yet the real threat is potentially from allies who seek to be your champions despite being no less ignorant or fearful for their trappings of education and wealth.

The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 prohibited students with felony records from receiving Pell Grants, ending 350 prison education programs overnight, despite the fact that prison education accounted for less than 1 percent of the Pell Grant budget.

Despite the marked decline in funding per student, it isn't completely accurate to say that states are spending less on higher education; in fact, total state and local spending increased by 13.5 percent (in inflation - adjusted terms) from 1987 to 2015 nationwide.

Children today — and many adults too — have less contact with the natural environment than any previous generation, this is despite all the evidence about the positive impacts contact with nature brings to a child's education, health and wellbeing.

Despite the Federal Government's teacher education reforms and the push for evidence - based teaching, less than 2 % of ARC research funding is directed to educational research.

By Matthew Tungate [e-mail] Despite increased per - pupil and education - reform funding, Kentucky's new budget likely leaves teachers with fewer healthcare options, no new textbooks and possibly less...

Despite Congress's promised funding of IDEA at 40 percent of the average per - pupil cost, special education funding has declined in recent years down to less than 16 percent in FY 2013.

Despite the fact that many districts tumble off the MCL bandwagon a year (or less) after hopping on, Inevitable has managed to displace differentiation, yesterday's education buzzword du jour, with today's — personalized learning.

It said Labour, despite a protection for the whole education budget, had not allowed for the pupil numbers increase and would therefore spend # 2.5 bn less than the Lib Dems in the same period.

With the help of behind - the - scenes accounts, Russakoff exposes a cast of characters who often become less likable as the pages turn and reveals much of what went wrong with education reforms in Newark, despite an infusion of cash from philanthropists.

This despite the fact that children in counties participating in Smart Start and NC Pre-K have higher third grade reading and math scores and are less likely to require special education placements.

Despite the fact that our scholars receive less public funding than district school students, Great Hearts provides a world - class education, with robust athletics and extra-curricular programs.

Despite the proliferation of new automotive assistive safety technologies meant to ease driving stress and curb the amount of attention needed in select situations, the irony is that the growing popularity of partial automation systems means that more driver education is necessary, not less.

This installment had less of history in it, but revealed around several Vassar grads, each of whom is not living up to her full potential, having married and somewhat settled for a conventional life, despite their education and talent.

By contrast, despite spending over $ 2 trillion in 5 decades, aid programs have much less to show in terms of poverty reduction — or its ancillary benefits, e.g., reductions in hunger, disease, better health care and education, and greater adaptive capacity to deal with climate change and natural disasters — than does fossil fuel - powered economic development.

-- Reuters picCHICAGO, March 28 — Apple Inc yesterday rolled out a new iPad and classroom software aimed at grabbing more of the US education market, but did not cut the price of its entry - level tablet despite schools flocking to laptops costing a third less.

In early elementary grades — kindergarten through second grade — teachers appear to spend less time developing the higher - order thinking skills that are critical for school success, despite the high expectations outlined in state education standards.

Overall the report found that despite evidence showing high returns from investment, Ireland spends significantly less than other developed countries on early childhood education.