Sentences with phrase «higher than the disadvantages»

However, the advantages rate much higher than the disadvantages.

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Youth in higher - income homes spend more time than disadvantaged kids in reading the news and searching out information online.

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.»»

The disadvantages associated with these lots are higher - than - average interest rates, a limited selection of vehicles to choose from and possibly having to make payments on a weekly or biweekly basis.

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.

The few young men who do have children with more than one partner tend to be not among the most powerful in their communities but among the most disadvantaged, including suffering from high levels of depression (Bronte - Tinkew et al, 2009).

They largely refused to acknowledge that poverty rather than school quality was the root cause of the educational problems of disadvantaged kids, for fear that saying so would merely reinforce a long - standing belief among public educators that students unlucky enough to live in poverty shouldn't be expected to achieve at high levels — and public educators shouldn't be expected to get them there.

The main disadvantage with the outdated R44 regulations was the way that child seats are sized; with i - Size, seats are sized by the child's height rather than weight, meaning that they progress to a larger size at the appropriate rate for their body, ensuring the highest safety standards are provided at all times.

According to the EUA report, although nearly 80 % of European higher education institutions have a policy in place to support students with disabilities and 69 % to support socioeconomically disadvantaged students, less than one - quarter have specific policies for ethnic minority groups and immigrants.

Amid all the findings of concern, including the overall trend and disparities of income, education, insurance and ethnicity, the researchers did find one bright spot: Black men, who are known to be at higher risk for prostate cancer incidence and death, were more likely to report having discussed advantages and disadvantages than men on average.

You may also feel that the slightly higher than average initial cost outlay is a disadvantage to this product range.

By looking at the relative advantages and disadvantages we've discussed above, you've seen that the paid herpes dating sites are much higher quality than the free ones.

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.

This follows IFS research which found that support for a one - year breakfast programme in disadvantaged schools delivered similar academic benefits to universal free school meal provision (though the gains were higher in Year 2 than Year 6).

106 English primary schools with higher than average numbers of disadvantaged pupils took part in the trial, which was delivered to 8,600 pupils by the charity Magic Breakfast.

Similarly, disadvantaged students in advantaged schools are more than one year of schooling higher than those in average socioeconomic level schools.»

Disadvantaged students in average socioeconomic level schools, for example, are almost a year of schooling higher than those in disadvantDisadvantaged students in average socioeconomic level schools, for example, are almost a year of schooling higher than those in disadvantageddisadvantaged schools.

Students attending KIPP schools have higher rates of high - school graduation, college enrollment, and college completion than students from similarly disadvantaged backgrounds who attend other types of schools.

In a study that examined whether some countries are particularly effective at teaching students from disadvantaged backgrounds, Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, and Ludger Woessmann find little difference in the rank order of countries by the performance of students from families where a parent had a college education and the rank order of countries by the performance of students whose parents had no more than a high school diploma.

Recent studies, for instance, find that higher funding levels, smaller classes, and more - qualified teachers all have larger effects on disadvantaged students than on other students.

In addition, more than 70 percent are identified as high needs, nearly 60 percent are economically disadvantaged, and 15 percent are homeless at any given time.

These disadvantaged populations have high rates of educational mobility, but rates of exit from KIPP schools are typically no higher than rates at nearby district schools.

Consistent with these concerns, we find that Texas schools with a high proportion of low - income students are more likely to have first - year principals and less likely to have principals who have been at the school at least six years than those serving a less - disadvantaged population.

A total of 78 primary schools in England with higher than average proportions of disadvantaged pupils took part in the trial of «dialogic teaching», devised and piloted by Professor Robin Alexander, chairman of the Cambridge Primary Review Trust.

Across the Asia Society's ISSN network, which predominantly serves students from economically disadvantaged, high - minority, and urban backgrounds, approximately 92 percent of students graduate from high school on time, and among those, more than 90 percent go on to college (Wiley, 2012).

As in cities throughout the country, high schools are far less responsive to the needs of students, especially the disadvantaged, and more resistant to change than elementary schools.

We have yet to take sufficient note of a historic development in public education: A critical mass of schools is establishing, with more assurance than ever, that children can achieve at high standards regardless of race or economic disadvantage.

On the one hand, that's roughly four times higher than the rate for disadvantaged students as a whole.

Advantaged students score the equivalent of more than one PISA proficiency level higher in financial literacy than their disadvantaged peers.

Yet disadvantaged and underrepresented minority students attend selective colleges at far lower rates than do higher - income and white students.

This anxiety might be found in any public school, but in a socioeconomically disadvantaged school like Paul Cuffee, with a population that includes 89 % racial minorities, 77 % students qualifying for free or reduced lunch, and 46 % from families living in deep poverty (with household incomes at less than half the federal poverty level), the stakes are exceptionally high when spending decisions are made.

As we would expect, schools serving disadvantaged students are ranked higher by the two - step approach than in either of the other models.

If the measures are insufficient and the academic growth of disadvantaged students is lower than that of more advantaged students in ways not captured by the model, the one - step value - added approach will be biased in favor of high - SES schools at the expense of low - SES schools.

Research shows that minorities accrue greater premiums from educational credentials that signal high achievement than whites, which means that watering down these signals through grade inflation, abolishing external exams, and lowering standards depletes a key resource for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Washington — Although the nation's proprietary schools — which prepare young people for a wide variety of skilled jobs — enroll a higher proportion of disadvantaged students than do other sectors of the postsecondary - education system, a lower proportion of the schools» students receive financial aid than do students at private colleges and universities.

This would potentially open more and higher quality options to disadvantaged students than they would have had merely from gaining more access to existing options.

With five comprehensive high schools, more than 13,000 students, an 80 - percent - and - growing Hispanic population, and a large number of economically disadvantaged families, Thorstenson was faced with the challenges of increasing student achievement, making curriculum relevant, and promoting equity of opportunity for students when she first took office in 2000.

But the Senate has nixed the so - called Murphy Amendment, which would require states to identify and intervene in their lowest - performing schools; high schools with fewer than 67 % on - time graduates; and any school where disadvantaged or disabled students fall short of standardized test goals for two consecutive years.

First, to give parents more schooling options for their children, the government introduced a number of changes to its national voucher program, instituting a weighted voucher (more than 50 percent over the base voucher) to compensate for the higher costs of educating disadvantaged students and to provide schools with financial incentives to enroll low - income students.

Attainment in GCSEs is higher in grammars than comprehensives, for both disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged pupils.

Higher needs populations of students as defined in Vincent v. Voight (FRL, SpN, ELL) are at a greater funding and spending disadvantage than their more affluent peers since 2004.

That's higher than the 26.9 percent of black students whose families are not economically disadvantaged.

The pro-voucher group said the scores of students in the statewide voucher program were higher than those of economically disadvantaged students in public schools when opted - out students aren't included in the results.

Students who are homeless, economically disadvantaged, have limited English proficiency and those with disabilities scored higher than their peers on the English and math exams.

In the United States, for example, 65 percent of teachers work in middle schools where the principals surveyed said that more than 30 percent of their students come from socieconomically disadvantaged homes, the highest perception - of - poverty rate among the 30 countries analyzed by Schleicher.

It also reclassifies EL students at a higher rate than the district, 19 percent last year compared to 12 percent for the district, with Latino and disadvantaged students increasing their performance in both English and math this year.

Initially Milwaukee Catholic schools served immigrant families, today our schools serve mostly high poverty neighborhoods in the city with more than 80 % of our student population considered economically disadvantaged.

Students at magnets who are economically disadvantaged scored higher than their peers at traditional schools and charter schools.

In 23 states, state and local governments are together spending less per pupil in the poorest school districts than they are in the most affluent school districts, putting the children in these low - income, high - need schools at an even further disadvantage.

The graduation rates for students with disabilities and those from economically disadvantaged families also are higher than they were five years ago.