Sentences with phrase «higher than any of his peers»

In that light, the propensity for a job acquisition would be significantly higher than any of his peers with just a degree.

A 2009 MIT - Harvard study, under the direction of Thomas Kane of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, found that «achievement gains among Boston charter school students were significantly higher than those of their peers in either BPS or pilot schools, especially in math.»

The scale scores of low - income students in DCPS are higher than those of their peers in only Detroit and Cleveland (the two lowest - performing cities across the board), and they saw no statistically significant gains.

For example, an elementary school student who read for a half - hour every day (and answered quiz questions correctly) tended to post a reading achievement growth rate that was 86 percent higher than that of his peers.

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While that's higher than peers such as Nikon and Canon, which have sales multiples closer to 1, it's still quite low compared to the valuations of other companies in the tech world.

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

Women are also taking longer to pay off student debt, according to a report completed this year by the American Association of University Women, despite being more likely to enroll and earning higher grades than most of their male peers.

All propagation - of - the - species imperatives aside, research suggests that women with children demonstrate higher productivity over the course of their careers than their childless peers.

And its ratio of operating costs to sales is now higher than all of CP's North American peers.

While many do have slightly higher expense ratios than their developed - market peers — a reflection of the higher cost of investing in these markets — that is not always the case.

The horrifying mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School offered yet another tragic reminder of America's gun problem: The US has much more firearm violence than its developed peers.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth have a 120 % higher risk of homelessness than their straight peers.

He noted that the firm operated with a higher tax rate than some peers — it had got more US - centric over time rather than less, largely because of its presence in wealth management, which he reckoned was now about 98 % US - focused after the firm sold its European business in 2013.

Fanuc's capex as a proportion of sales is far higher than its peers.

Cash on balance sheets remains three - to - five times higher than other developed market peers, and corporate governance reforms are encouraging delivery of excess capital to shareholders via share buybacks, dividends and acquisitions.

A company capable of boasting sustained gross profit margins that are materially higher than its peers is almost always more efficient, better run, and a safer long - term investment provided the valuation multiple isn't too high.

Like the other stocks mentioned, the PE of BMI is relatively high compared to the S&P at 29.2 but lower than its peers.

The only other comment I'd have is that whilst he meets a much higher standard of scientific approach than the snake oil dressed as financial advice elsewhere, the core testing methods used are opaque and (as far as I can tell) not peer reviewed or made available for scrutiny.

The replacement — a peer - selected investment model — led to about 36 percent of Village Capital's investments going to women - led companies, which is significantly higher than the national average.

If you look at Page 3 of C's Y - 9 performance report, you'll see that C's yield on loans is 2 % higher than the large bank peer group, yet the bank has a spread on earning assets half a point lower than other large banks.

For more than a week, the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have held the country's attention as they join with peers across the country to demand a change in America's gun laws.

RenaissanceRe was able to generate an ROE of about 16.8 % in 2013, comparatively higher than most of its peers.

Peer - to - peer lending can earn you a higher rate of return than a savings account or certificate of deposit — as long as you're carePeer - to - peer lending can earn you a higher rate of return than a savings account or certificate of deposit — as long as you're carepeer lending can earn you a higher rate of return than a savings account or certificate of deposit — as long as you're careful.

«AbbVie's Baa1 rating reflects the blockbuster success of Humira and the product's good growth outlook, offset by higher leverage and greater product concentration risk than pharmaceutical peers,» says Michael Levesque, analyst at Moody's Investors Service.

Adopted children have higher rates of delinquent behavior, learning disorders, and attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder than their non-adopted peers.

The Wesleys, raised by a pastor, held ministry in higher regard than did most of their peers, though even they originally hoped to use Oxford connections to attain comfortable posts.

We now know that, in all socioeconomic groups, children raised outside of intact two - parent families are significantly more likely than their peers to drop out of high school, end up in prison and experience serious psychological distress.

Arrieta's ceiling turned out to be a lot higher than most of his 95 - mph peers, but he just proves that it's possible for a stuff - monster to turn into an All - Star, not probable.

In particular, tweens who have been a target of relational aggression have higher rates of smoking than their peers.

Studies have shown that they are more likely than their peers to suffer from mental illness, they have a higher rate of truancy and are more likely to engage in anti-social behaviour.

Since boys at highest risk of becoming early fathers can be identified from age eight (see below) engaging with such young males in highly specialised programmes early on (to teach basic life skills, address negative peer influences, promote school success and direct them to alternatives other than early parenthood) is indicated, in order to reduce sexual risk - taking and early fatherhood (Thornberry et al, 2004)

Analysis Confirms Rice Poses Higher Risk for IQ Loss from Arsenic Exposure than Alterative Grains We recently released the results of one of our case studies supporting this effort, a robust analysis grounded in peer reviewed science, which examines the impacts on children's IQ from eating arsenic contaminated rice based foods.

Regarding vitamin D deficiency, consider the following from August 2009: «A whopping 70 percent of American kids aren't getting enough vitamin D, and such youngsters tend to have higher blood pressure and lower levels of good cholesterol than their peers, according to two new studies published this week in the journal Pediatrics.

You can rest easy here as well as research again indicates that homeschoolers» scores are typically higher than that of their public school peers.

They may account on some Trump supporters hiding their vote intention because of peer pressure / embarrassment using historical data, but if peer pressure is higher in this election than in previous elections it is difficult to tune up that effect correctly (how can you measure peer pressure to adjust your model before the election day?).

A higher proportion of life peers than MPs are women, and significant numbers of ethnic minority members have been appointed in recent years.

In «From funding agencies to scientific agency: Collective allocation of science funding as an alternative to peer review,» the researchers proposed a funding model that they claim would be simpler, cheaper, and fairer than the traditional funding system, and more amenable to high - risk research and chance discovery.

For example: regardless of their gender, the most violent prisoners have higher levels of testosterone than their less violent peers.

Black, non-Hispanic service members had a rate of 24.4 new diagnoses of hypertension per 1,000 person - years (p - yrs), nearly 50 percent higher than the rates among members of all the other racial and ethnic groups studied, according to the analysis published in the Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, a peer - reviewed journal on illnesses and injuries affecting service members.

A University of South Florida professor and an international team of experts have found that older people with high levels of a certain type of cholesterol, known as low - density lipoprotein (LDL - C), live as long, and often longer, than their peers with low levels of this same cholesterol.

Children from low - income families are likely to hear 30 million fewer words than their peers from higher - income families, a deficit that can have far - reaching implications on educational achievement, health and economic status, said Alan Mendelsohn, associate professor of pediatrics and population health at the New York University School of Medicine.

In both men's and women's prisons, for example, the most violent inmates have higher levels of testosterone than their less violent peers.

The risk of riding with an impaired driver was much higher for peer drivers than for older adult drivers (21 percent vs. 2.4 percent for marijuana, 17 percent vs. 4 percent for alcohol, and 5.4 percent vs. less than 1 percent for illicit drugs).

For example, the simulated social information revealed that peer advice more strongly influenced an individual if the knowledge suggested the actual number of items was higher than the guesser's initial estimate.

«We found that the odds of secondhand smoke exposure for never - smoking teens exposed to both parents and peers who smoke is 23 times higher than that of never - smoking teens who don't have smokers often around them,» said Veeranki.

We know this because patients who were given the new - look medication presented higher hypertension and systolic blood pressure than either of their peers whose medication was unchanged or simply wrapped in a different packaging.

Women with the least - inflammatory diets had lower bone mineral density overall at the start of the study, but lost less bone than their high - inflammation peers, the researchers found.

Women aged 60 - 70 who are satisfied with their lives have a higher bone density and they suffer from osteoporosis less frequently than their unsatisfied peers, according to a recent study completed at the University of Eastern Finland.

For those born extremely prematurely (less than 28 weeks of gestation) between 1973 and 1986, the researchers found the risk of retinal detachment was 19 times higher than peers born at term.

College students who participated in a self - administered intervention prompting them to reflect about their use of classroom resources had final grades that were higher than their peers, according to new findings published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.