Sentences with phrase «better than disadvantaged»

Disadvantaged girls perform better than disadvantaged boys, on average, and the attainment gap between the genders is 8 percentage points.

Not exact matches

This is especially important for women, since research shows they are less likely than men to negotiate an improvement to an opening offer and so may well start at a disadvantage.

The entrepreneur knows her product or service better than anyone and may evaluate its advantages and disadvantages differently from the user who is less - informed and will assess its value differently.

Millennials may be better educated than earlier generations, but Credit Suisse's researchers said they expected only a «minority of high achievers and those in high - demand sectors such as technology or finance to effectively overcome the «millennial disadvantage.»»

However, overcoming a cultural norm is quite difficult for a group of people who are not well - informed about the advantages and disadvantages of banks, but also of holding virtual money, rather than cash.

The reports in Matthew and Mark (variants of the same) differ in some points from Luke's, and John does not report the hearing.20 At best we are at a disadvantage in having no more than a very brief précis, in Greek, of proceedings conducted in Hebrew, which may have been quite lengthy.

Determined to start a successful business and help cultivate a better way of life for conventional essential oil farmers in disadvantaged Indian villages, Mudar began the enormous task of organizing these laborers and directing them toward a more profitable agricultural pursuit: growing certified organic plants, which by their very nature command higher prices than their conventionally grown counterparts.

This is normally seen as a disadvantage as the theory is that points on the board are better than games in hand, but with Arsenal I am not so sure.

Seager may grade out as a better pure hitter than Trumbo, but on power alone he is at a clear disadvantage.

While the conversation lately has been about how many socioeconomically disadvantaged women are having children outside of marriage as well as the rise in choice motherhood, don't be surprised if we start talking instead about how more young couples are finding that it's a much better deal — and a heck of a lot easier — to find someone who'll be a good person to co-parent with than it is finding a soul mate.

The biggest disadvantage of this diaper changing pad is that it might be too big, but it's always better to have bigger pad than the one that is smaller than your baby.

Each method has its benefits, and disadvantages, and some are better than others for certain parts of the body as well as different skin types.

To say that formula fed children are being put at a disadvantage is untrue, my son is doing much better statistically than the majority of children his age who were breastfed.

Most women had little knowledge of the advantages and disadvantages of giving birth at home and in hospital, although there was substantial demand for further information, and a minority who were better informed than their peers.

Although the IFPS II over sampled disadvantaged mothers (illiterate, non-English speaking, very low - income, very low education and without a stable home) compared to IFPS I, the results of our study may best describe practices of middle class American mothers rather than of disadvantaged American mothers [28]; thus, results can not be generalized to all women in the United States.

The good news is that with the growing number of lactation consultants and access to breastfeeding support groups and a wealth of information on elimination diets, pumping, herbal remedies and more, overcoming a serious disadvantage is easier than it has ever been.

Of course nobody wants to pay more council tax — nobody wants to pay more of any kind of tax — but it is surely better to be paying more for local services, over which we have closer control and scrutiny, than into a central pot increasingly steered towards penalising disadvantaged Northern cities.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

In the executive summary of its application to the Gaming Commission, Resort World has predicted a gross gaming revenue of $ 1 billion and argues that residents of disadvantaged areas of the state, including Sullivan and Ulster counties, «will be economically better off being employed in Sterling Forest Resort than a smaller gaming facility in their «disadvantaged area.

So for now, at least, we would do better to focus on helping poor people to overcome their disadvantages than to worry about the prospect of idiocracy.

Color blindness is not always a disadvantage, according to University of Calgary primatologist Amanda Melin and her colleagues, who found that wild color - blind capuchins in Costa Rica are better at detecting camouflaged insects than individuals with broader color vision.

But even pacing has disadvantages: The team found that two - legged molecules were much better at moving through obstacles than were four - legged ones.

A course that fills an urgent need in the health care field because literally no Medical School teaches anything more than a lesson or two on this polarizing and diverse subject often leaving Licensed MD and NDs alike at a severe disadvantage when it comes to being able to interpret Vaccine Ingredients, How to Identify Vaccine Injuries, and How to Report Them as well per the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System established by the 1986 National Vaccine Law.

There are really advantages and disadvantages when you want to register and join but if you are careful enough then it is better to join than always wonder the outcome if you have joined one.

People are found like to use pictures that look much better than they do in person, most of their disadvantages, like freckles or body shape, could be hidden in the pictures, and people who finally get to meet them after a period of talking online would be unexpectedly surprised with their real look.

Compared the advantages and disadvantages above, we can see the result that paid herpes dating site is better than the free.

Another major disadvantage to the free dating sites (and the paid sites as well) is that of dishonest people pretending to be older or prettier or richer or younger than they actually are in hopes of creating relationships.

Much of Good Time's queasy, sustained high derives from Connie's lack of compunction about exploiting people even more disadvantaged than he is, but the film's unexpected emotional wallop is a product of how the Safdie brothers, co-writer Ronald Bronstein, and Pattinson judiciously draw out Connie's tragic dimension.

Research has shown that children from privileged socioeconomic backgrounds are better prepared for achievement when they enter school than children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

LBD students also learned science content as well as or better than students engaged in traditional learning methods, with the largest gains among economically disadvantaged students (Kolodner, Camp, Crismond, Fasse, Gray, Holbrook, Puntambekar, & Ryan, 2003).

Pupils from disadvantaged homes are much less likely than their peers to achieve five good GCSE results.

Ms Curnock Cook further voiced that a focus on universities on increasing their intakes of pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds «probably did not» threaten the prospects of privately - educated pupils, because falling pupil numbers meant students with «good A-levels will be in more demand than ever».

Indeed, all of the demographic characteristics considered in our report, as well as the lack of pre-primary education, increase the probability of low performance by a larger margin among disadvantaged than among advantaged students, on average across OECD countries.

«More than 300 have been created since I became Prime Minister and 200 are set to open meaning tens of thousands more young people, many from disadvantaged areas, finally have a choice of a good education that helps them reach their full potential.

Alternatively, a school that serves disadvantaged students may appear to be doing poorly but in fact have a great principal who is producing better outcomes than any other principal would.

Some schools, especially in low socioeconomic areas, consider themselves «welfare» rather than «academic» schools and believe that the best thing they can do for their disadvantaged clientele is to teach them social and life skills, give them a grounding in the «basics» and make them feel better about themselves.

LBD students learned science content as well as or better than comparison students, and these gains were often largest among the most socioeconomically disadvantaged students.

Economically disadvantaged rural and small - town children do a lot better than their city counterparts in learning what they are taught in school, but schooling is not enough.

More alarmingly, even when we compare students from these two groups who performed equally well in Year 3 NAPLAN, the disadvantaged students make between 1Y 1m and 1Y 9m less progress than the advantaged students.

Indeed, schools with large numbers of disadvantaged students may simply have better things to do than to apply for awards.

It's great news that there are 1.8 million more children in schools rated good or outstanding than there were in 2010 and the attainment gap between disadvantaged children and their peers is narrowing.

Disadvantaged, disabled, and limited - English - proficiency pupils should carry with them substantially larger amounts of funding than «regular» students, both to make them more attractive to schools and to assist schools with the added costs of teaching them well.

U.S. News then factored in the percentages of economically disadvantaged students — who tend to score lower — enrolled at the schools to identify schools performing much better than statistical expectations.

More than half (54 %) of head teachers in schools with large proportions of disadvantaged pupils find attracting and keeping good teachers is «a major problem», compared with a third (33 %) of those in other schools, they found.

While support for early years provision is to be welcomed, given how much of the disadvantage gap opens between 0 - 5 years, there remains insufficient evidence to say whether school - based early years provision offers better quality of outcomes than other types of nurseries.

Some states do better than others at helping disadvantaged districts get the money that they need, but many states still have school funding schemes that actually worsen the problem.

This new test is more about memory than application, and it could well disadvantage children with forms of SEND related to working memory.

But there must be a better way to assist the disadvantaged than to trigger class warfare.

Because learning gaps increase more over the summer than during the school year, well - designed summer programs regularly attended by economically disadvantaged students could help keep the gaps from widening.

Disadvantaged children living in rural England are less likely to do well at school than those from the big cities, says Ofsted's chief inspector.