Sentences with phrase «gaps than differences»

Nevertheless, programs like the one above show that there is much more to college achievement gaps than differences in preparation or motivation or ability.

Not exact matches

The output gap — the difference between current economic output and the estimated level that would stoke inflation — will now close in mid-2018, «materially later» than previously thought, the statement said.

Note, for example, that respondents who «strongly agreed» that differences in income were too large estimated a much larger pay gap between CEOs and unskilled workers (12.5:1) than respondents who «strongly disagreed» (6.7:1; Table 2).

The output gap was so much larger in this downturn than the last one (see «Part II» here), due in part to the differences noted so far, that you'd expect a lot more stimulus in the recent downturn.

The women reportedly got paid lower salaries and smaller bonuses than their male peers, even after weighing differences in education, experience, and other factors that could explain the pay gaps.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

But there's a difference between losing and getting embarrassed, and we have gotten outplayed by a much wider margin than the talent gap between these two teams.

and it may be these differences that lie behind the gaps in their children's success, rather than the fact of marriage itself.

Among infants born during 2010 — 2013, the gap in breastfeeding initiation between black and white infants was 17.2 percentage points, only slightly less than the 19.9 percentage point difference between black and white infants born during 2003 — 2006 (a timeframe when the methodology only included the landline sample)(4).

There are clear systematic differences with Labour doing much better in the polls than in the PNS (with very big gaps during Blair's leadership up to the Iraq war: 1994 - 2003).

But the gaps between those who see Warren as a champion and those rallying around Clinton appear far narrower than the differences that existed between Bill Clinton and Mario Cuomo.

The difference in personal safety between the 5th percentile and the 20th percentile of school safety is much greater than between the 20th percentile of school safety and the 65th percentile of school safety, even though the percentile gap is three times as great.

WHEREAS, women make up 50 % of the population in Santa Clara County but face significant economic disparities, with an average pay difference that is larger than the national wage gap of $.72 for a man's dollar, with women holding advanced degrees earning roughly $ 40,000 less than their male counterparts, and 11 % of the County's female population living in poverty and approximately 33 % of the homeless population being women and girls, and

However, he said the degree of difference in earnings suggested the horizontal stratification in education across field of study appears to be more consequential than the usual focus on vertical stratification, which refers to the earnings gap between levels of education.

If the single - parent family structure adversely affects children's educational outcomes, then the difference in trends across income groups could possibly account for more of the growing gap in educational attainment between rich and poor children than income inequality itself.

Further, the size of the gap is determined largely by differences among students with mild rather than severe learning difficulties.

This difference represents less than a third (30 percent) of the nearly $ 25,000 black - white gap in total debt that exists four years later.

We find that previously - reported differences in debt at graduation — of about $ 7,400 — are less than one - third of the total black - white debt gap four years later, due to differences in both repayments and new graduate borrowing (we focus primarily on the black - white gap, which is by far the most pronounced).

Finding # 2: Differences in undergraduate borrowing explain less than a third of the black - white gap in total debt four years after graduation.

These differences are even more pronounced in high - poverty schools, for which the gap between the 25th and 75th percentile principal is more than one - third of a standard deviation.

Children on free school meals achieve almost half a GCSE grade less in Attainment 8 core subjects than more affluent pupils, according to the report, and 88 per cent of this gap is believed to be due to differences between pupils at the same school.

Among each of the ten largest districts in Florida, the observed range between the 10th and 90th percentile of the SES test score gap is larger than the observed difference between the school district with the largest SES gap and the school district with the smallest SES gap (among the ten largest school districts in Florida, that is).

Stir in lack of teacher mobility, inadequate induction programs, poor working conditions, the lowest unemployment in three decades, and a growing salary gap between teachers and other college graduates — a difference of more than $ 32,000 for experienced teachers with master's degrees — and you have created the worst shortage of qualified teachers ever.

In Australia, in scientific literacy the gap between the average score of Indigenous and non-Indigenous students is equivalent to around two - and - a-half years of schooling; in reading literacy the gap equates to around three years of schooling; and in mathematical literacy the difference in average scores is equivalent to more than two - and - a-third years of schooling.

We found negligible differences in teacher quality between programs, amounting to no more than 3 percent of the average test - score gap between students from low - income families and their more affluent peers.

Even small differences in summer learning can accumulate across years resulting in a substantially greater achievement gap at the end of elementary school than was present at the beginning (Alexander, Entwisle, & Olson, 2004; see also Borman & Dowling, 2006; Lai, McNaughton, Amituanai - Toloa, Turner, & Hsiao, 2009).

Taking this difference into account cuts the black - white test - score gap to less than a fourth of a standard deviation in math and completely eliminates the gap in reading.

While urban students overall do better in charter schools than in traditional public schools — a conclusion found by rigorous studies that account for any potential differences in the students going in — the gap varies tremendously from place to place.

Sure enough there's a strong relationship between the poverty gap and the suspensions gap, with differences in poverty explaining more than a third of the differences in discipline disparities from district to district.

This gap is substantially smaller than the difference between what is perceived and what is desired on most other topics.

Differences in educational quality are now much more likely than in the past to magnify the gap in life outcomes between children from high - and low - income families.

The authors note that existing stereotypes about gender and reading lead to a «gap [that] may reflect boys» fear of confirming the negative stereotype about their gender group in reading, rather than intrinsic gender differences favoring females in reading ability and motivation.»

And the study found that the nation's large black - white achievement gap was due primarily to factors inside the school house, rather than to differences between black and white schools.

Although differences in teacher and school characteristics — such as a teacher's experience or a school's student demographics — explained some of this gap, more than half of the gap remained even after accounting for such factors.

The latest figures reveal primaries closed the progress gap by one month (difference between disadvantaged pupils and their peers) in 2015 (represented below by birth years, rather than academic year).

The new JCW will further widen the power gap between itself and the Cooper S — while the old Cooper S had 181 hp compared to the old JCW's 208 (a difference of 27 hp) the new Mini John Cooper Works will have 42 more hp than the 2014 Mini Cooper S.

Although the performance difference is closer than you might initially think, the gap on track would undoubtedly be much wider.

Both Amazon's Kindle Fire HDX and Google's Nexus 7 closed the gap on 10 - inch tablets, providing Retina Display graphics and fast quad - core processors and making the major difference size rather than performance.

In theory you should receive roughly the difference between $ 4.08 and $ 3.40 when this happens, but it could also be zero if, for example, STP gapped up on open to more than $ 4.08.

In 2015, household debt grew 15 % faster than income since 2003; however, the gap between debt and revenue has been decreasing since the 2009 peak when there was a difference of 49 %.

While Synchrony Bank allows customers to hold more than one of their Gap Inc. cards, the differences between the cards are minor and the benefits overlap quite a bit.

The vortex depends on the temperature difference between the Arctic and mid-latitudes, but that gap is shrinking because the pole is warming faster than anywhere on Earth.

Research has highlighted that despite 80 % of UK industries guilty of a gender pay gap, beneath the scrutiny there are industries that actually represent a narrower pay gap, with some of the highest paid jobs in the UK, possessing a less than 10 % pay gap difference.

They only have to pay you fair market value, which could be less than you owe to the auto finance company, in which case you'd still have some portion of the loan to pay off yourself unless you have gap insurance to pay for the difference.

Sometimes referred to as an umbrella rider, gap insurance will pay the difference between the actual book value of your car, and the remaining balance on your car loan — if the amount that you owe on a car is higher than what the car is actually worth.

The main difference between gap insurance and CRA is that CRA will pay 20 % more than the ACV of your car, whether this exceeds or is less than the amount you owe on a vehicle.

The only other marked difference is that a cover letter gives you latitude to explain unique situations; the gap in your work history or a non-standard career path, in greater detail than on a resume.

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