Sentences with phrase «same background factors»

The Fordham Institute initially opposed the Obama administration's guidance under the belief that its supporters attribute the «entirety of the gap... to racial bias in the system,» arguing that «the racial suspensions gap [can] be explained by differences in behavior that are driven in large part by those same background factors [that affect the achievement gap],» such as poverty, fatherlessness, and low levels of parental education.

But just as much of the racial achievement gap can be explained by out - of - school factors, so too, I suspect, can much of the racial suspensions gap be explained by differences in behavior that are driven in large part by those same background factors.

Not exact matches

«While cultural background is always a significant consideration in making this decision, so too are other factors including remaining in the local area to promote contact with the child's family and for the child to continue at the same school in order to give them as much stability as possible.»

Three factors suggest that honeybees are spreading the parasites into wild bumblebees: honeybees have higher background levels of the virus and the fungus than bumblebees; bumblebee infection is predicted by patterns of honeybee infection; and honeybees and bumblebees at the same sites share genetic strains of DWV.

Researchers from Tufts University School of Medicine have now identified specific combinations of factors that are linked to why individual mycobacteria of the same genetic background can respond differently to antibiotics.

The ANU suspected that because residents of Singapore were impacted at the same rate, regardless of ethnic background, there was an environmental factor to blame.

There is an argument to be made that people who are considered «compatible» or who have the same background, communication style, or any number of factors in common might make better matches.

The study compared student growth in classrooms led by teachers in Opportunity Culture roles to student growth in non-Opportunity Culture classrooms in both the same schools and in different schools, controlling for various factors including student background and prior performance.

Acknowledging that no two schools are the same, the assessment also collects information on students» backgrounds and their schools to identify factors that may influence student performance.

According to Gagnon & Mattingly (2015), even when students from low - income backgrounds have near - identical access to AP courses compared with higher - income peers, they are about three times less likely to enroll in these courses.17 In a study of several high schools attempting to detrack, Yonezawa et al. (2002) found that several factors prevented underrepresented students from moving into higher - track courses, among them the students» own unwillingness and intimidation by the atmosphere surrounding higher - track classes.18 The same pattern emerges for college application.

My experience as an applicant for judicial appointment prompted me to wonder: if a state wants a more diverse judiciary, why apply old ways of thinking, where the same factors are considered regardless of background?

While Lord Neuberger acknowledged that common factors were to be taken into account in the processes of construction and implication — the words of the contract, the relevant background known to the parties, commercial common sense, and the reasonable reader — that «does not mean that the exercise of implication should properly be considered as part of the exercise of interpretation, let alone that it should be carried out at the same time as interpretation».

So how do you build a background screening program that addresses the risks your employees bring to the table, while at the same time respecting the fact that your employees are the single most important factor in your success and should therefore be treated fairly?

At the same time, many associations between life experiences and marital quality do not disappear even after researchers control for background factors.

Moreover, we have shown that young adult males on a chronic physical aggressive (CPA) trajectory between age 6 and 15 years had differential DNA methylated regions located in the genomic loci of cytokines and related transcription factors in T cells and monocytes, compared to males with the same background who did not follow such a high aggression trajectory (control group)[47], [48].

Since the Normal Bar survey methodology sorts for age and gender, racial and geographic differences and sexual preferences, the authors are able to reveal, for example, what happens to passion as we grow older, which gender wants what when it comes to sex, the factors that spur marital combat, how kids figure in, how being gay or bisexual turns out to be both different and the same, and — regardless of background — the tiny habits that drive partners absolutely batty.

Differences in the extent and expression of parental concern may reflect cultural background, child and parental gender, age and socio - economic status; the same factors may influence the use of restrictive, monitoring, or pressuring feeding practices [54 — 60].