Sentences with phrase «start over their peers»

«After all, in both cases, wealthy parents are leveraging their position to give their children a head start over their peers.»

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In fact, working with my brother gave me a head start and an advantage over my peers in a number of ways; and I'm certainly not the exception.

Anthony: I think it's important to note that this whole thing started about a decade ago with a white paper about a peer - to - peer, digital cash payment system, but over the past decade, people have realized that this underlying technology has a ton of applications, not just in financial services and payments, but in other industries such as health care, supply chain and so on.

The Labour peers have warned the government not to start a new confrontation between the Lords and the Commons over the issue, and to avoid invoking the Parliament Act to get the clause on the statute book.

Anton van Leeuwenhoek started it all when, early on 3 September 1702, he sprinkled a pinch of dust into a glass tube, poured water over it and peered down his microscope to watch what happened.

Dr. Schork has published over 500 peer - reviewed research articles, mentored over 75 trainees, has been on 8 patents, has given over 250 invited lectures, and has been involved in over 15 different start - up companies or commercial ventures in the biomedical space.

I started watching, and my husband peered over my shoulder.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — Studies of two middle - school programs for high - achieving students — known as gifted and talented (G&T) programs — show that being placed in programs with academically strong peers does not boost students» achievement over and above what is learned in a regular classroom from the start of 6th grade to mid-way through 7th grade.

If people with these underlying advantages did something with their time other than go to college, like start a business or serve in the military, they would still outperform their peers over the long term.

Because this gap grows much wider in the later grades, Bell and Chetty suggest that «low - income children start out on relatively even footing with their higher - income peers in terms of innovation ability, but fall behind over time, perhaps because of differences in their childhood environment.»

Chris Barbic, founder and CEO of the stellar YES Prep network, says that «starting new schools and having control over hiring, length of day, student recruitment, and more gives us a pure opportunity to prove that low - income kids can achieve at the same levels as their more affluent peers.

Because the Gates - McGinitie is nationally normed, we can show that struggling students in RAISEup Texas schools (solid lines) had ten times as many point gains over the year as their nationally - normed peers from across the country who started at the same level (dotted lines).

Growth is measured by how much a student improves academically on standardized tests over a year compared to peers who started at the same place.

Research has shown that over two years, this evidence - based approach to individualized instruction can take children who are starting out significantly behind their more advantaged peers and develop their language, literacy, numeracy and social - emotional skills where they are measuring above the mean, which is effectively closing the achievement gap.

Give students ownership over this task and assign a few students to start and stop each video for their peers.

The S1 is markedly more expensive than most of its peers, but the Audi badge on the nose helps to justify its starting price of over # 26,000.

Started in 2006, California based Prosper.com is currently the largest peer - to - peer lending service with over 1.25 million members and 350,000,000 in funded loans.

The pound, for example, gapped lower against most of its peers at the start of the week and then got swamped by even more sellers, thanks to a Sunday Times report over the weekend that claimed that as many as 40 members of Parliament agreed to sign a letter of no - confidence, which alarmed market players since it only takes 48 to trigger an official leadership challenge on the PM.

Start at the overlook at 41st and East Cliff which peers over The Hook, a famous surf spot marked by a large surf etiquette sign posted near the stairs that lead down to chilly waters.

Ferdinand, I started having a look at the relevant papers, and noticed a couple of things: Soden was a co-author of the 2002 Wielicki paper you cite, in 2002 Soden was lead author of yet another paper in Science, this one focused on the effects of the Pinatubo eruption, Wielicki and Wong (also an author of the 2002 Wielicki paper) were in turn co-authors of a 2003 IEEE paper debunking the iris effect, and... how in the world can so many scientists, many of them frequent collaborators, screw up something this fundamental over such a long period of time and have most of it get through peer review in the same prestigious publication?

and he peered over his sunglasses, looked me in the eye (for the first time as far as I could tell) ending the interview with «Start Monday.»

«I think you'll see bitcoin used in different use cases, whether it's a peer - to - peer use case, a cross-border transaction - someone's sending currency to someone else, and over time, you'll start to see it with some merchants accepting bitcoin.»

Over the six year period starting from the time it showed inclination towards the first decentralized peer - to - peer cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, it has successfully completed more than 26,000 transactions.

Dynamic Maintenance / Operations Manager with over 15 + years of experience in business processes, operations, start - up and Original Equipment Manufacturing, seeking employment in an environment that pushes the current limits of my abilities and allows the opportunity to gain the respect of my peers.

DIRECTOR OF R&D I have over 15 years of success in Director of R&D roles and a track record of commercializing technologies for medical device, therapeutic, drug delivery, diagnostic, and clinical applications through NIH, DoD, and DoE grants, peer review process, industry collaborations, licenses, and start - ups.

At this age, information from peers, media (especially social media), and other sources start to take precedence over parents.

I was feeling very cheery about my borrowed attire until steam started wafting from his engine and we had to pull over at a service station for coolant and he couldn't find his debit card and I ended up squatting on the pavement in a pair of mens» underpants, peering under car seats with my phone light...