Sentences with phrase «school than counterparts»

I teach history to smart students at a good college, who, it is often said, know less when they graduate from secondary school than their counterparts of years...

Living below the poverty line, Brittany is six times more likely to drop out of high school than her counterparts in suburban and wealthy districts.

Not exact matches

As a group, public universities in the top 40 performed better than their private counterparts, growing total assets by 44.5 percent compared with 24.7 percent for private schools between the 2008 and 2014 fiscal years.

Male MBAs are hired into higher - level positions right out of school and earn, on average, $ 4,600 more per year in their first job than their female counterparts.

All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

Fatherless children have rates of incarceration, criminal activity, possession of firearms, poverty, drug and alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy, incompletion of school, and overall parental neglect and maltreatment alarmingly higher than their two - parent counterparts.

Factor in that poor black children are almost three times more likely to be held back in school than their white counterparts.

Women who enter marriage in their late twenties or after are more likely than their counterparts who do so earlier to have completed 16 years of schooling or more, by a wide margin.

Female soccer players playing elite or select soccer before high school sustained concussions at a rate higher than their high school and college counterparts, most continued to play despite experiencing symptoms, and less than half sought medical attention, a first - of - its - kind study finds.

A 2015 study in Italy involving 147 elementary school kids concluded that normal - weight and overweight children were far less likely to be bullied than their obese or severely obese counterparts.

Those from non-traditional education environments matriculate in colleges and attain a four - year degree at much higher rates than their counterparts from public and even private schools.

The results showed that breastfed children are smarter, and perform better in school than their formula - fed counterparts.

A study by Robin Wilson of the Washington and Lee University School of Law reports that women with MBAs get divorced or separated more often than those who have only a bachelor's degree, while women with law or medical degrees are more likely to divorce or separate than their male counterparts.

This does not mean that students are not inspired to learn just as much if not more than their public school counterparts do.

Young children in Japan are given greater freedom than their US counterparts and often get themselves to and from school without parental help.

For instance, white and Latino fathers with bachelor's degrees earned more than twice as much as their counterparts with only a high school degree.

Belluck has used his own Twitter handle in recent days to dog the State Education Department over the results of third - through eighth - grade English and math test scores that showed charter school students performing slightly better than their public school counterparts.

City charter schools in public school buildings are far more overcrowded than their district - run counterparts, a new analysis of NYC Education Department data shows.

Independent school pupils are four times more likely to attain an A * at GCSE than their non-selective state sector counterparts and twice as likely to attain an A grade at A-level.

Alan Milburn, a former Labour UK cabinet minister, recently published a report showing that pupils eligible for free school meals in England are 50 % more likely to obtain five good GCSEs than their counterparts in Wales.

Only 226 females obtained five credits and above including English Language and Mathematics in the May / June 2015 West African Senior School Certificate Examination in Yobe State, CHARLES ABAH reports MALES performed better in the May / June 2015 West African Senior School Certificate Examination than their female counterparts did, a West African Examinations Council document has revealed.

A new study suggests that charter school students are more likely to do well at college and earn significantly more than their counterparts at other schools.

For decades scholars and public health officials have known that people with greater income or formal education tend to live longer and enjoy better health than their counterparts who have less money or schooling.

On average, girls on job training programmes had sex for the first time when they were 17 years and 1 month, 7 months earlier than their high - school counterparts.

Late - and post-menopausal women have significantly greater volumes of fat around their hearts — a risk factor for heart disease — than their pre-menopausal counterparts, a University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health study has shown for the first time.

The survey reports that high school seniors in states with medical marijuana laws are more likely to have vaped marijuana and consumed marijuana edibles than their counterparts without such laws.

Overweight children have more unreciprocated friendships and frenemies than their thinner counterparts, a Keck School of Medicine of USC study finds.

«When you consider that, overall, high school athletes have been shown to score higher on quality of life than their non-athlete counterparts, the risk of not playing sports could lead to lower quality of life than playing sports and sustaining concussion,» he theorized.

The fact of the matter is, those who do not eat breakfast tend to exhibit lower productivity, they have poorer grades in school and ultimately end up experiencing higher unemployment rates than their breakfast noshing counterparts (fastcoexist.com).

But in general, Chinese students leave high school with a lot less romantic experience than their American counterparts.

The study also revealed that girls from poorer families in single - sex schools received better GCSEs than their counterparts in mixed schools, whilst less of an advantage was identified for boys in single - sex schools.

After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

Nevertheless, high - scoring F schools did experience gains larger than their low - scoring D counterparts.

New research published by the Oxford Review of Education suggests students who attended state schools are a third more likely to get a top degree at a leading university than their independently educated counterparts with similar A-level results.

In Arizona, parents seem to be even more active in closing undesired charter schools than their Colorado counterparts have been.

Study after study has demonstrated that girls and boys in single - sex schools are academically more successful and ambitious than their coeducational counterparts.

New Studies Focus on Latino Education, Language, Health, and Politics Mexican - American women in New York City fare better in school than their male counterparts, according to a new study presented at a national conference at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on May 2,school than their male counterparts, according to a new study presented at a national conference at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on May 2,School of Education on May 2, 2002.

They found that, initially, charter - school parents rated their children's schools more highly than their public - school counterparts did.

With the proliferation of AP calculus in high school, one might think that the good students of 2006 place out of calculus I more frequently than did their 1989 counterparts.

Students in rural areas have to travel farther to reach school than their urban counterparts — a commute of several hours by boat is considered normal — and many of their parents may not have the education level necessary to help with high school homework.

It is also instructive to note that teachers working in private schools quit teaching at a much higher rate than their counterparts in public schools, and almost two - thirds of these leavers rank an increase in salary to be very or extremely important in any possible decision to return to teaching.

For example, a 2010 report by UCLA's Civil Rights Project found that black charter school students were twice as likely to attend schools that enrolled fewer than 10 percent non-minority students as their counterparts in traditional public schools.

Our new findings demonstrate that, while segregation for blacks among all public schools has been increasing for nearly two decades, black students in charter schools are far more likely than their traditional public school counterparts to be educated in intensely segregated settings.

In 2009, CREDO reported that charter students performed somewhat worse in reading and substantially worse in math than their district school counterparts.

Federal data from NCES offers a potentially surprising revelation: Private school teachers have higher turnover rates than their public school counterparts, and it's not particularly close.

As in most other school districts, the teachers in higher - poverty schools in our sample have fewer years of experience than their counterparts in lower - poverty schools (11.8 years vs. 14.0 years).

According to research from Stanford, Bay State charter pupils gain 1.5 months more learning in reading during a single school year than their district - schooled counterparts.

In Chicago, students who attended a charter high school were 7 percentage points more likely to earn a regular high school diploma than their counterparts with similar characteristics who attended a traditional public high school.

An important aspect of the system is that, rather than being «taken over», lower - performing twinned schools form joint management and teaching teams with their higher - performing counterparts.

The situation would be even worse in high - and moderate - poverty schools, which tend to have lower levels of teacher quality to start with than their more advantaged counterparts.