Sentences with phrase «advantaged social backgrounds»

They found that bright children from advantaged social backgrounds were twice as likely to achieve A-levels as similarly able children from the least advantaged social backgrounds.

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Those from more advantaged educational backgrounds are more likely to receive higher quality support and to be able to draw on more relevant forms of social and cultural capital.

Research shows that children from poor families start school substantially behind children from more advantaged backgrounds in vocabulary, knowledge of the world, social skills, and pre-academic content such as letter recognition, all of which are strongly predictive of later school success.

Places in the pilot program are limited to Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates, women, «and those coming from less advantaged social or educational backgrounds».

Their achievements post-graduation may be limited by a deficit in social capital, or social networks, relative to their contemporaries from more advantaged backgrounds.