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.
«I knew that I was
starting at a disadvantage compared to everyone else because when you haven't played you have to start slowly.
But Albany County Legislator Alison McLean Lane points out women are
starting at a disadvantage: «Women, in general, do not make as much money as men.
She contends that the Y chromosome already
starts at a disadvantage: Unlike the X, it has no partner for genetic recombination (the random exchange of segments between chromosome pairs), so it can accumulate harmful mutations, leaving it perennially vulnerable.
You might be
starting at a disadvantage.
«If you're self - employed, you have to acknowledge that the reality is you're
starting at a disadvantage,» Hedayat says.
If you're self - employed, you have to acknowledge that the reality is you're
starting at a disadvantage.
Not exact matches
However, anonymous tips can put you
at a severe informational
disadvantage when
starting your investigation, so you should also have a couple of point people for face - to - face complaints.
For small - business owners looking to expand their operations or set up shop in a growing market, here's a look
at the attractions and
disadvantages of
starting up in Turkey.
Any new social platform
starts at a huge
disadvantage: It doesn't come with your friends.
Starting the debating season too early puts sitting governors
at a
disadvantage.
We
start at a major
disadvantage.
This is probably a good time to point out that players
start their career value
at 5 in this exercise, so the rookies aren't
at a complete
disadvantage.
Even though the blues came up with an impressive fight back to almost snatching a point with a numerical
disadvantage, it was a need to result
at the
start of the season which could complicate things going forward.
Sadly not all kids get to go to preschool, and they are proven to be
at a
disadvantage when they
start kindergarten.
These women already
start their new roles as mom
at a
disadvantage.
Before classes even
start these children are
at a
disadvantage.
The city is
starting budget negotiations
at a
disadvantage: The budget that Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, proposed this month would shift hundreds of millions in formerly state - covered costs to the city, while taking back $ 600 million in city sales - tax revenue.
Robertson is a credible challenger, but she
starts at an obvious
disadvantage.
Starting at such a financial
disadvantage, Topinka (or whoever winds up as the GOP nominee) will need millions of dollars in support from the Republican Governors Association, which has a number of other more pressing priorities in 2006.
«There's no denying that we're
starting, and will probably continue to be,
at a significant cash
disadvantage to Boxer: we went through a tough and expensive primary and have only had a few weeks of raising cash for the general while Boxer has been stockpiling funds for 6 years,» the campaign said in a release.
Closing the Language Skills Gap Among Children: It's Never Too Soon to
Start [September 28, 2016] Many children are
at a
disadvantage even before they walk into an early Head
Start or pre-K program.
In the contest for attention, scientists who lack training in making effective videos
start at a marked
disadvantage.
- Challenge pre-eminent scientists and engineers (
starting with the more than 2,000 members of the National Academy) to take specific actions that will help achieve his goal, such as mentoring teachers and students in
disadvantaged schools,
starting a Science Festival in their city, or encouraging their university to create special programs that allow students to get a STEM degree and a teaching certificate
at the same time.
This means that if you
start off
at an unfair
disadvantage, you'll fall further and further back with every increase.
Shannon Greco, a science education program leader
at PPPL, has been named one of the YWCA Princeton's «women of excellence» for her work with young women and
disadvantaged youth, including her help in
starting two all - girls robotics teams for the YWCA Princeton.
You're
at a
disadvantage before you
start.
The player's skill level is still important but if one of the awful weapons spawns
at the beginning of the stage as opposed to one of the superior weapons, you
start with a significant
disadvantage and this could spell doom for you if a better weapon doesn't spawn soon.
Edutopia sat down with Navarro to talk about his early life, the
start of his teaching career, and why he thinks he's been so effective
at reaching
disadvantaged students.
A plan to transfer Head
Start programs run by the Chicago public schools to community - based centers has put the popular preschool program for
disadvantaged children
at the center of an emotional dispute pitting agency against agency and parent against parent.
Not surprisingly, some children were
starting kindergarten partway through the year and losing out on critical lessons and developmental opportunities, which put them
at a clear
disadvantage.
The civil rights movement and the growing public awareness of our educational system's inequality led to the creation of Head
Start, a program aimed
at preparing young
disadvantaged children for school.
The project showed that socially
disadvantaged children benefited most from quality pre-school learning programs, and made a successful
start at school.
This investment will be targeted
at the most
disadvantaged areas of the country — including the Department for Education's Opportunity Areas — to help make sure every child gets the best
start in life.
Many of the nation's schools are tasked with educating large numbers of
disadvantaged students who,
at the
start of kindergarten, already lag far behind their peers.
Equal Footing Students in poverty
start school
at a
disadvantage.
FRANKFORT, Ky.)-- Many Kentucky students are
at a
disadvantage for learning before they even
start school, according to Kindergarten Readiness Screener data released by the Kentucky Department of Education.
Starting at a competitive
disadvantage will be 10 states that have never allowed charter schools - Alabama, Kentucky, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington and West Virginia.
Although Gaetz's bill does not include fiscal expenditures, as noted in the main text (§ IV, supra), in reviewing the
start time / academic achievement studies undertaken by fellow economists, Columbia University Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics Jonah Rockoff and the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, Professor of Economics, and Professor of Education
at the University of Michigan, Brian Jacob, concluded that delaying middle and high school
start times «from roughly 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. -LSB-,]» will increase academic achievement by 0.175 standard deviations on average, with effects for
disadvantaged students roughly twice as large as advantaged students,
at little or no cost to schools; i.e., a 9 to 1 benefits to costs ratio when utilizing single - tier busing, the most expensive transportation method available.
Both Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Education and Childcare Minister Liz Truss have stressed the need to give
disadvantaged children, who tend to do worse
at school, the best
start in life.
The report warns that falling behind
at the very beginning of school can be the
starting point for permanent
disadvantage.
By the end of fifth grade in France, the relative benefit to
disadvantaged pupils who
start at the amazingly early age of 2 rather than 4 is over one - half of a standard deviation, quite a large effect size.
Before classes even
start these children are
at a
disadvantage.
And low - income kids, who are far less likely to acquire knowledge
at home,
start out
at a
disadvantage and fall farther behind with each passing year.
But, as Richard E. Nisbett reminds us in «Think Big, Bigger... and Smaller» (p. 10), even small changes can yield long - term benefits for students who
start out
at a
disadvantage.
If you
start listening to the wrong people, or too many people, you're
at a
disadvantage.
She will
start the college admissions process
at a
disadvantage, as compared with students from schools like Michael's.
If you don't use styles for formatting, or worse, don't even know what styles are, you are
starting at a tremendous
disadvantage.
Waiting until after your book is published to begin marketing
starts you out
at an immediate
disadvantage.
And if you absolutely have to
start with zero money up front, that's possible too... but you'll be
at a
disadvantage.