Sentences with phrase «than their peers without»

Adults who have dyslexia are much more likely to report they were physically abused before they turned 18 than their peers without dyslexia, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Toronto and the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill.

By contrast, older women aged 45 to 64 had average treatment costs in the first year after a breast cancer diagnosis that were $ 75,737 more than their peers without breast cancer spent on healthcare in a year.

On the other hand, research suggests teachers trained in gifted education, for instance, preservice teachers with practicum and fieldwork experiences working with gifted students, are more aware of their needs than peers without this training.

The study, released by the U.S. Department of Education in 2010, found that voucher students were more likely to graduate than peers without vouchers, based on data collected from families.

The notion that students with disabilities in some states are due only «de minimus» (just more - than - trivial) progress or in other states «some educational benefit» from their public schools reflects and perpetuates the belief that having a disability makes you less worthy of an education than your peers without disabilities.

This is because the lowest attainment groups include many pupils with EAL, as well as those with SEN. Pupils with EAL often make significantly greater progress than their peers without EAL, which distorts the expected progress for pupils with SEN.

Rep. Jason Powell, D - Nashville, filed the bill Wednesday, after a News 4 I - Team investigation revealed students with disabilities received corporal punishment at a higher rate than their peers without disabilities at 60 Middle Tennessee schools.

Not exact matches

The finances at Norway's Statoil leave it with less room to maneuver than its peers, and Italy's Eni appears focused on growing without M&A, the firm says.

In an editorial in The Journal of the American Medical Association, a Stanford School of Medicine professor criticizes the company for operating in «stealth mode for more than a decade» in order to «change the entire health system» without publishing anything in peer - reviewed biomedical journals.

But that freedom is just one of many that we enjoy in the United States — and religious tolerance is no more, or less, valuable than are rights to free speech, to bear arms, to be free from search and seizure, to be presumed innocent until proven otherwise, to be tried by our peers, to have our day in court, to not be imprisoned or fined without cause, to ensure State's rights, to be free from slavery and involuntary servitude, and on, and on, and on.

Women who eat about two servings of strawberries per week experienced a less mental decline over time than peers who went without eating the powerful berries, research published in the Annals of Neurology found.

Miguel Cabrera is without peer at the plate, but the award is about more than hitting.

Anyway, my point is this: If we acknowledge that McGwire is a borderline Hall of Fame candidate, better than some Hall of Famers but worse than many others, should we simply ignore the fact that his illegal drug use, at a time when most of his peers were probably not using drugs, might well have given him a statistical boost, without which we wouldn't even be having this conversation?

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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?

She also has white felt wings and little legs with striped tights, and she loves to dance (finger puppets with legs have so much more «life» than those without them), but she also is so cute peering out from the Christmas tree amidst sparkling white lights... An adorable decoration to ti

In our subgroup analysis of African American infants, at 12 weeks, African American mothers with peer counselors had odds of providing any breast milk 249 % greater than those for African American mothers without peer counselors (odds ratio, 3.59 [95 % confidence interval, 1.16 - 11.03]; P =.03)(Table 3).

At 12 weeks postpartum, women with a peer counselor had odds of providing any amount of breast milk 181 % greater than women without a peer counselor (odds ratio, 2.81 [95 % confidence interval, 1.11 - 7.14]; P =.01).

Despite the weak labor market, graduates still have better chances of finding good jobs than do their peers without degrees.

They submitted papers to peer - reviewed journals at a 23 % higher rate, first - author papers at a 30 % higher rate, and grant proposals at a 25 % higher rate than those without written plans.

BOSTON — Though seniors with type 2 diabetes (T2D) tend to have normal or higher bone density than their peers, researchers have found that they are more likely to succumb to fractures than seniors without T2D.

A European study suggests that people with belly fat — even if they're at a healthy weight — have a higher risk of dying during a 10 - year period than their same - weight peers without a spare tire.

In fact, 2008 graduates both with and without STEM majors who entered the teacher workforce had higher average SAT scores than their peers who entered other occupations.

In the U.S., for instance, parents without a high school diploma are much more likely to be in poverty than their better - educated peers, and their children are much more likely than their peers to be low - performing and to drop out of school themselves.

For example the research revealed that second graders in RF schools actually spent less time reading than peers in schools without RF funding, for the sake of what was described as «high quality» instruction.

Ludger Woessman (see «Merit Pay International,» research) looked at 27 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries and found that students in countries with some form of performance pay for teachers score about 25 percent of a standard deviation higher on the international math test than do their peers in countries without teacher performance pay.

We examined whether larger networks are more effective than smaller ones and found that, both with and without correcting for student and peer socioeconomic characteristics and selection bias, students at schools that are part of networks of three or more schools consistently outperform students at schools in networks of only two schools.

Without valid information on the performance of students at each school relative to that of their peers across the country, the entire education enterprise flies blind, leaving parents, teachers, school managers, and policymakers with nothing more than intuition and consensus as the basis for making decisions.

It is no coincidence then that research has shown students who spend their full K — 12 education career in public schools in states that require collective bargaining with teachers unions earn less money, work fewer hours, are more likely to be unemployed, and are more likely to be employed in lower - skilled jobs than are their peers in states without collective bargaining laws.

And, in a recent SEND release from the DfE we can see for the first time that this new measure does result in pupils with SEND receiving lower progress scores than their peers, here are the 2015/2016 progress scores for pupils with and without SEN:

Petrilli argued that it required schools to reduce suspensions without providing any supports, but Jimenez and Kristen Harper of Child Trends argued that it did not require any changes without supports, but instead called attention to a discipline crisis where students of color were punished more regularly and harshly than their white peers.

Students without math disabilities can recall more facts from memory than their peers with math disabilities.

Without access to quality preschool, students of color, and children from low - income families, are far less likely to be prepared to start kindergarten than their peers.

Coleman's arguments lamenting students of color score worse on the tests than their white peers — without acknowledging the ways in which systematic underfunding of schools, poverty, and institutional racism have disfigured our school system — end up pathologizing communities of color rather than supporting them.

As one study cited in the lawsuit found, a student without a consistent classroom teacher for two years is more likely than not to fall irreparably behind peers who have had classes with consistent teaching.

In this essay author Marguerite Roza challenges the assumption that rural districts are less productive than their urban or suburban peers by discussing rural districts can «beat the odds» by increasing student results without increasing per - pupil expenditures.

Professional Development for Transition Personnel: Current Issues and Strategies for Success (August 2005) NCSET Information Brief After more than two decades of federal transition legislation, students with disabilities continue to have significantly poorer postschool outcomes as compared to their peers without disabilities.

While Soulsville tries to strike the right balance of reading and math with music courses for its predominantly black and lower - income population, nationally, students from low - income families and minority groups are significantly more likely to go without music classes than their more affluent peers, according to data collected by the Arts Education Partnership at the Council of Chief State School Officers, said Scott Jones, a senior associate with the group.

Readers see the turmoil through Lewis» eyes: in the courthouse, advised not to speak on her own behalf, she notes «how people peer without moving their necks or eyes, / secretly craving scandal and wreckage / more than justice.»

«eBooks make content more accessible than ever before so people can experience it, so they can experience the joys of all kinds of literature without feeling this narrow - mindedness, guilt, peer pressure, and community pressure that would prevent them accessing books.»

This peer - to - peer lender offers small business financing faster than a bank without the strict requirements.

Since his first one - person exhibition more than 60 years ago, his consistently original vision has been without peer.

A responsible skeptic will request that you remain open minded to opinions from both sides, and consider the uncertainties involved * without * prejudging them based on the demonstrable human predilection toward a «herd mentality» — by «herd mentality», I mean that once a consensus is formed, a flock of «me too» science papers become much more easily accepted, by peer review journals, than the skeptics» papers.

In addition, peer - reviewed studies have documented that there have been temperatures similar to the present day on Earth when carbon dioxide was up to twenty times higher than today's levels» — And, a peer - reviewed study this year found that the present day carbon dioxide level of 400 ppm was exceeded — without any human influence — 12,750 years ago when CO2 may have reached up to 425 ppm.]

The WWW is already too full of misinformation, especially on climate, and so those with theories they wish to promulgate really ought to submit their ideas to peer review to give a reasonable chance for obvious flaws to be pointed out, rather than promulgating them immediately to laypersons who might accept them without seeing the flaws.

Few papers are published without requiring author revisions to improve their quality, and so peer review is far more than a pass / fail test.

Plans to detain terrorist suspects without charge for more than 28 days should be dropped, a committee of MPs and peers from all parties says.

He sees blockchain as more than a new type of network infrastructure, with immutable ledgers that are almost impossible to hack or fake, plus peer - to - peer channels that let people transact directly without fee - collecting gatekeepers like AirBnB or PayPal.

Those without a degree will have to work twice as hard to seem more educated than their degreed peers, and that means going the extra mile.

Children who present difficult behaviour on entry to primary school have been shown to have higher truancy rates, poorer peer - to - peer and student - teacher relationships and achieve lower or no educational qualifications than those without such difficulties.