Sentences with phrase «larger socioeconomic inequalities»

However, larger socioeconomic inequalities — the higher socioeconomic position, the larger — emerged in the intervention group, both for early discontinuation of exclusive breastfeeding and for weaning before 12 months.

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The achievement gap between low - income and wealthy students has grown significantly, exacerbating socioeconomic and racial tensions and heightening the sense of inequality among various underserved communities, as large achievement gaps in educational outcomes based on race and ethnicity remain, or by some accounts, even worsen.

We used data from a large cluster - randomized trial to assess the impact of a breastfeeding promotion intervention on socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding (exclusivity and duration) and in child cognitive ability at early school age.

Such schools educate mainly low - income students, which renders socioeconomic disparities less salient... Because students and teachers need not constantly confront inequalities that are the product of large social forces, the embrace of active acculturation can proceed without apology to beneficiaries or benefactors.

In fact, socioeconomic status is the single largest factor influencing children's school readiness, according to Inequalities at the Starting Gate: Cognitive and Noncognitive Gaps among the 2010 — 2011 Kindergarten Classmates.

In awarding the prize, the Goldman Prize committee said, «In a country with growing socioeconomic inequality and human rights violations, Berta Cáceres rallied the indigenous Lenca people of Honduras and waged a grassroots campaign that successfully pressured the world's largest dam builder to pull out of the Agua Zarca Dam.»