Sentences with phrase «likely than disadvantaged»

Their research also reveals how ethnic background plays a significant role in grammar school entry, with disadvantaged Indian pupils four times more likely than disadvantaged white British pupils to attend a grammar school.

It reports that disadvantaged Chinese pupils are fifteen times as likely than disadvantaged white British pupils to attend a grammar school.

Disadvantaged Indian pupils were four times more likely than disadvantaged white British pupils to attend a grammar school, while disadvantaged Chinese pupils were 15 times as likely.

The study also found that the most advantaged youngsters were more likely than their disadvantaged peers to change their mind from being «unlikely» to «likely» to apply.

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 young women there who asked is there any prejudice against [women] I will tell you... that if you worked certainly in the public sector or a reasonably large company who can smell which way the wind is blowing, you are far more likely to be advanced by being a woman in your quest for promotion than disadvantaged and I know that.

Today, young people from disadvantaged backgrounds in England are 60 % more likely to go to university than they were in 2006.

- 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

The authors found some differences between the genders in graduate school — for example, women were more likely than men to work with women faculty members — but «no clear disadvantages in the aspects of training environments that we can measure,» they write.

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.

This could explain data showing that the poor are likelier than others to behave in ways that are harmful to health and impede long - term success — in short, behaviors that can perpetuate a disadvantaged state.

Years of healthy life expectancy and the likelihood of disability in older age vary significantly, and as a result particular groups are going to find it hard to keep working beyond 65 and are more likely to be disadvantaged by a rise in the state pension age, than others.

In addition, some subject choices seemed to disadvantage certain students — those taking law, for instance, were more likely to be at universities that scored lower on league tables if they had A-level law rather than a subject such as maths or science.

Since teachers with fewer than two years of experience tend to be less effective than more experienced teachers, existing mobility patterns in Texas are likely to adversely affect the achievement of disadvantaged students.

New analyses of opt - out movement offer fresh perspectives Although less likely to be economically disadvantaged, opt - out students tended to be lower - achieving than test takers in New York State last year

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

[Also] students in affluent schools are overwhelmingly more likely to have had that basis in their education than students in disadvantaged schools.

Disadvantaged black pupils are now more than twice as likely to attend grammars as in 2012, but are still also significantly under - represented.

Although less likely to be economically disadvantaged, opt - out students tended to be lower - achieving than test takers in New York State last year

Gifted students in LUSD are far less likely to be economically disadvantaged and more likely to be white or Asian than other students in the district.

Thus, if anything, it appears that the attrition from comparison middle schools is more likely than attrition from KIPP to draw away students who are disadvantaged relative to the students left behind.

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.

Note, for example, that black students and disadvantaged students are currently more likely to attend schools with full - day kindergarten than more advantaged students.

On the other hand, pension systems disproportionately reward very long - term employees, which may disadvantage women if they are more likely than men to spend time out of the workforce.

In California, schools identified as needing improvement were more likely to contain a Black, Latino, socio - economically disadvantaged, and limited English proficient subgroup than schools making AYP.

Figures show that just five per cent of children eligible for free school meals gain five A grades at GCSE, while a child living in one of England's most disadvantaged areas is 27 times more likely to go to an inadequate school than a child living in one of the least disadvantaged.

It also discovered that: disadvantaged girls were also significantly less likely to have continued their academic career than more advantaged girls, although the achievement gap was less marked; and that disadvantaged girls were much less likely to enter four or more AS - level exams than other girls, and almost four times less likely to enter three or more A-levels than other girls.

Speaking to the Guardian, Alan Milburn, the former Labour cabinet minister who chairs the government's social mobility commission, has said that grammars lead to social selection and warned that in England's current 163 selective state schools pupils were four or five times more likely to come from independent prep schools than from the most disadvantaged backgrounds.

The most advantaged young people are more likely to be focused on university at a young age than their more disadvantaged peers.

Disadvantage: This would generally require the use of new data sources for all schools; while the results may be more accurate than when using FRPL data, shifts in the identification of Title I schools and allocation of funds among them are more likely under this approach.

When African Americans in Minnesota (as elsewhere) are significantly more likely than white students to be growing up in poverty, to be living in single - parent families, to be coming into school with all manner of disadvantages?

Urban and rural children are more likely than suburban children to attend full - day kindergarten and economically disadvantaged children are more likely than advantaged children to attend full - day kindergarten (NCES).

Disadvantaged white children far less likely to get grammar school places than ethnic minority kids (Lynn Davidson, The Sun)

Previous Sutton Trust research has shown that disadvantaged children are much less likely than other pupils to attend grammar schools.

However, OECD finds that disadvantaged students are less likely than their peers to use technology in a way that enhances their learning.

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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.

A child living in one of the country's most disadvantaged areas was 27 times more likely to go to an inadequate school than a child in the most advantaged area, said Ms Greening.

In the United States, students who are fortunate enough to have a great teacher for even one year are more likely to matriculate to college, attend more prestigious colleges, and earn more later in life.40 Unfortunately, though they stand to benefit most from great teaching, 41 disadvantaged students are more likely to be taught by inexperienced or ineffective teachers than nondisadvantaged students.42 As a result, they far too often miss out on these benefits.

The latest installment of the study, released this week by the nonprofit research group MDRC, contains even more impressive news: The disadvantaged students who make up a vast majority of the small - school enrollment are also more likely than those in the control group to enroll in college.

Girls are more likely to miss out on school than boys and this is accentuated more among disadvantaged, rural families.

It shows that chronically absent students are less likely to read by the end of the third grade than demographically similar peers, and shows that chronic absence is concentrated among economically disadvantaged schools and a sub-set of schools.

The organization might be more likely to place its recruits in somewhat less disadvantaged schools, where they are no more effective in raising their students test scores than their colleagues.

We focus on secondary schools because children of color and students from other historically disadvantaged groups are far more likely than other students to be suspended out of school at this level.

OECD recognizes that a clear human and material resource distribution gap affects student performance, stating, «disadvantaged schools tend to... be more likely to suffer from teacher shortages, and shortages or inadequacy of educational materials... than advantaged schools.»

Disadvantaged students are less likely to graduate in Washington than Texas, according to U.S. Department of Education data.

Based on their location, the school will likely have to educate a student population that is more economically disadvantaged than the student populations at NHA's other schools, CSAB noted.

Last month, for example, a study by the nonprofit research group MDRC said that disadvantaged students who enrolled in small schools were more likely to go to college than their peers.

Disadvantaged black pupils are now more than twice as likely to attend grammars as in 2012, but are still also significantly under - represented, say researchers.

Research has found that black, Hispanic and economically disadvantaged students are much less likely than their peers to take algebra in eighth grade.