Sentences with phrase «than their disadvantaged peers»

It neatly captures the heart of the issue: Privileged children come to school on day one with larger stores of knowledge and vocabulary than their disadvantage peers.

Advantaged students score the equivalent of more than one PISA proficiency level higher in financial literacy than their disadvantaged peers.

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

One question that remains: if vast numbers of babies in Asian populations are sleeping less than their Western peers — without any apparently society - wide disadvantage — does it truly matter if babies co-sleep or not?

Most women had little knowledge of the advantages and disadvantages of giving birth at home and in hospital, although there was substantial demand for further information, and a minority who were better informed than their peers.

- 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

Disadvantaged children in areas of low social mobility made 20 months less progress than their wealthier peers across England in 2015, according to research released today from Ambition School Leadership.

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

Dr Thomson says TIMSS data show disadvantaged students on average «like mathematics and science less, are less confident, value mathematics and science less and have a lower average achievement than their advantaged peers».

While the rationale is perhaps a bit misguided (some evidence suggests that our students already experience as much instructional time as their peers ~ and other research confirms that teachers in the United States spend more time on instruction than teachers in other nations do) ~ there are certainly reasons to focus on the issue ~ not least of which is the summer learning loss that disproportionately impacts our nations most disadvantaged youth.

This discrepancy combines with hunger ~ illness (and a lack of health insurance) ~ mobility and other issues that impact disadvantaged students at a much greater rate than their wealthier peers to form a large opportunity gap.

Research tells us that disadvantaged students tend to be exposed to lower - quality teachers than their peers.

The study showed that disadvantaged pupils are not ahead at age 5, before they begin primary education, but do make faster progress than their peers outside of London, once they have begun primary school.

Disadvantaged children in areas of low social mobility made 20 months less progress than their wealthier peers across England in 2015, according to

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

It's great news that there are 1.8 million more children in schools rated good or outstanding than there were in 2010 and the attainment gap between disadvantaged children and their peers is narrowing.

«Northern pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds achieve lower attainment levels than disadvantaged pupils elsewhere in the country (1.3 points below the national average and 6.5 points below their peers in London).»

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

Higher needs populations of students as defined in Vincent v. Voight (FRL, SpN, ELL) are at a greater funding and spending disadvantage than their more affluent peers since 2004.

Students who are homeless, economically disadvantaged, have limited English proficiency and those with disabilities scored higher than their peers on the English and math exams.

Ms Greening said that it was «wrong» that as a result of this, «young people from more disadvantaged, poorer backgrounds are coming out with more debt than their better - off peers».

«The fact that, on average, students from disadvantaged households perform less well in school than peers from more advantaged backgrounds has been documented at all levels of education,» said Fiske and Ladd.

Students at magnets who are economically disadvantaged scored higher than their peers at traditional schools and charter schools.

In the third of a five - part series, John Dickens looks at who exactly is benefiting as schools receive more than # 6bn of pupil premium funding and questions if is really closing the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their wealthier peers

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.

A closer look at 30 extended - day schools found that these schools generally reached more disadvantaged students, and that students» state math and reading scores were on average five percent higher — up to 20 percent higher — than their peers.

NO one seriously disputes the fact that students from disadvantaged households perform less well in school, on average, than their peers from more advantaged backgrounds.

In particular, it said, that in schools run by Oasis Community Learning Trust: «Disadvantaged pupils, particularly boys, make significantly less progress than their peers nationally.»

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.

Moreover, the bill is specifically aimed at assisting disadvantaged children, who have long achieved at much lower levels than their peers.

Under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act, states must report on whether disadvantaged students have a higher proportion of ineffective, out - of - field or inexperienced teachers than do their peers.

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

«We know that many pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to receive the same high - quality advice and guidance than their wealthier peers, which makes it harder for them to make informed decisions about their future,» she told Schools Week.

We are making progress with over 1.4 million more children in good or outstanding schools than in 2010 and the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers is falling at primary and secondary level.

Students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds typically perform worse on standardized tests than their wealthier peers.

And students from economically disadvantaged homes here performed slightly better than their economically disadvantaged peers statewide at nearly every tested grade level.

The latest figures reveal primaries closed the progress gap by one month (difference between disadvantaged pupils and their peers) in 2015 (represented below by birth years, rather than academic year).

Educational disadvantage refers to the situation where some individuals get less benefit from the education system than their peers.

Parents were more likely than adolescents to perceive living in rural locations as a disadvantage with both groups citing isolation from specialist services and peers, emergency care and information as concerns.

There is a reoccurring trend in some early childhood education studies: disadvantaged children who attend preschool arrive at kindergarten more intellectually and emotionally prepared than peers who have had no preschool.

H1: Widowed persons will have a health disadvantage over their married peers, with the disadvantage being more pronounced for mental health than physical health outcomes.

We also find that widowed persons who were previously in age heterogamous unions are more likely to have engaged in deleterious health practices during marriage than all other groups, but there is little evidence suggesting that they are more disadvantaged or have poorer marital quality than their peers who were previously in age homogamous unions.

Second, we also find that individuals who are socioeconomically disadvantaged are more likely to transition into «early» widowhood than their more advantaged peers.