Sentences with phrase «than those of his peers because»

If the child's work habits or ability to sustain attention or fine motor skills are less advanced than those of his peers because he is younger, parents fear that the child will be left behind.

«I am proud to be «less effective» than some of my peers because I chose to teach to the emotional and academic needs of my students.»

Not exact matches

(i) Assist companies in determining and interpreting their ratio (revenue stream number one); (ii) Sell the data back to companies to compare and explain ratios among their peers on an industry - by - industry basis, because average worker compensation for Bank of America will be different than that of Apple, for example (revenue stream number two); and (iii) Sell the data to labor groups to assist them in collective bargaining (revenue stream number three).

That said, this manual from San Francisco — based green cleaning supplies maker Method Products rewards more than most of its peers — and not just because the book is informed by the company's enthusiasm for design.

But if you are in a group with companies that are at very different growth stages than you are, you might find it frustrating because your peers just aren't dealing with the same issues you are in terms of scaling or managing people.

That actually works, too, because Minuum's prediction and autocorrecting skills are much more aggressive than most of its peers.

In college, whenever Iraq or Afghanistan came up, I missed out on a lot of opportunities for personal growth because I was in too big of a hurry to toot my own horn to my civilian peers, rather than take the time to hear what they had to say on the topic.

He noted that the firm operated with a higher tax rate than some peers — it had got more US - centric over time rather than less, largely because of its presence in wealth management, which he reckoned was now about 98 % US - focused after the firm sold its European business in 2013.

Canada sidestepped the worst of the financial crisis because it avoided the real estate excesses of its U.S. neighbour, and a post-recession housing boom helped it recover more quickly than its Group of Seven peers.

And each time, I peered into the face of the one receiving the gift: a lanky boy with pimples and bangs avoiding my gaze; a pretty girl, no more than 13, tears brimming in eager, thankful eyes; a guy wearing his Bama cap because he heard I was a fan, whispering «Roll Tide» as he dipped his bread in the cup; adults receiving with a grateful familiarity, mouthing «thanks be to God» and folding their hands in prayer.

``... Up to 40 % of all homeless youth identify as LGBT,» she writes, «and of those, almost 80 % left because their families rejected them when they came out... There are more than 1100 federal benefits denied to same - sex couples... LGBT youth are five times more likely to attempt suicide than their straight peers... That's a real injustice.»

He'll deserve it because of the financial boost he will provide to Metropolitans Baseball Club Inc., and he won't deserve it because he's better at baseball than his peers.

By the way, a great book by another skeptical OBGYN is called «Born in the USA» only he's skeptical of medicalized birth because he's a clinical scientist as well, unlike our author here and he's realized that home birth is safer than hospital birth according to peer - reviewed large scale studies.

Also bearing in mind that at least in my opinion it is more the personality of the siblings than age spacing that determines closeness and new studies have suggested that siblings teach compassion and bounderies way better because they have a peer.

Given the desirability of breastfeeding, it is possible that women in the intervention group felt more guilty about discontinuing breastfeeding than control women because of relationships developed with the peer counselor, and thus, they did not answer telephone calls when the research assistant called to ascertain feeding status.

They may account on some Trump supporters hiding their vote intention because of peer pressure / embarrassment using historical data, but if peer pressure is higher in this election than in previous elections it is difficult to tune up that effect correctly (how can you measure peer pressure to adjust your model before the election day?).

Sadly, most commentators enthuse about the House of Lords only because they despair of the tribal party antics and unrepresentative voting system for the commons, which places MPs even further down the popularity tables than peers.

The problem is not so much that a number of Conservatives voted against the government - in fact, rebel Tory votes tipped the balance only once, in the unusual circumstances of the multiple rebellion on the European Economic Area amendment - or even that rather more Conservative peers didn't vote at all, because the government whips managed to bring in more than usual.

The government is growing increasingly frustrated with the Lords, which has defeated it on numerous occasions since May — including the blocking of the Treasury's plans to cut tax credits in October — because there are more Labour and Liberal Democrat peers than Conservatives.

This generational disconnect is inevitable, in politics as in other spheres, but it affects the Labour Party worse than other parties because Labour was founded to represent a single class, and now it's arrived at a situation where the likes of Stephen Kinnock and Owen Smith, the children of peers and academics, have to dig up grandparents in the hope of connecting with that class they don't really understand.

«I'm probably still more efficient than my peers because of the way I had to structure my working environment» early on as a scientist parent, says McKendrick, who is now the head of the optometry and vision sciences department at the University of Melbourne in Australia.

Things are worse now, and things are worse still for the members of the underrepresented groups we're so interested in recruiting, because they — we — are more isolated than our peers, by definition.

Yet female assistant professors outsource much more than their male peers — at the same rate as senior male faculty members — because they see the value of doing this, Schiebinger says.

We know this because patients who were given the new - look medication presented higher hypertension and systolic blood pressure than either of their peers whose medication was unchanged or simply wrapped in a different packaging.

Because African - American youth experienced greater odds of dating violence than their Caucasian peers, culturally tailored interventions will be essential.»

College students who receive special accommodations because of a learning disability say they have less difficulty completing assignments and more contact with faculty outside of class than peers who don't receive extra help.

But, as David Sandberg, a psychologist at the University of Michigan, has long argued, short kids do fine in the long run — finer than some of their peers, in fact, because of the adversity they've experienced and the resilience they've developed.

For instance, 72 percent of teens surveyed thought people dated people of other races because they cared about the other person, while less than 20 percent thought their peers interracial dated as a rebellion against parents or as an attempt to be cool.

Younger men are more than willing to enter into a relationship with older women because it gives them bragging rights over their peer group as well as a sense of adventure.

The cost of effective peer tutoring is higher than alternatives, such as computer - assisted instruction or smaller class sizes or longer school days, because of the needs for adult personnel to coordinate, train, and monitor the student tutors.

The new study is far less definitive than advertised because it addresses, at most, only one of the three ways in which peer influences might make a difference in KIPP's success.

Because they enable feedback loops between theory and everyday classroom practice and are supported by a network of like - minded peers, these models have been found to be much more effective than the traditional model of courses, workshops, conferences and seminars.

But this stress is magnified in vulnerable communities, because young children living with the adversities of poverty exhibit more behavior problems, on average, than their peers (Evans et al., 2004; Gunnar, 2000).

Students also reported that their peers» behavior was much better and that they felt safer in school — this suggests that insofar as selective schools are beneficial, it may be because of higher - achieving peers rather than better - quality instruction.»

Because of how the systems are structured, a school can be rated an A even if it has done little to stem achievement gaps, or does little better on that front than peers in lower - ranked schools.

And I was a little surprised in the report that the US scored as well as it did on the peer networks piece because when you look at the TALIS data, use teachers spend less than 5 percent of time working in collaboration with peers.

This method calls for school and parental flexibility and may lead to logistical problems such as scheduling and transportation, but is often more satisfactory than grade skipping because the child associates at least part of the time with age peers.

Peer effect is a critical missing measure in studies that purport to show charter effectiveness (CREDO NJ for example)-- because it's really hard to separate «school effect» from «peer effect» [because «peers» are an integral part of the «school»] Clearly, schools like North Star that serve substantively different student populations than district schools, and shed «weak» non-compliant students (& their parents) at astounding rates, create peer conditions that are advantageous to those few (50 % or so) who actually make it throPeer effect is a critical missing measure in studies that purport to show charter effectiveness (CREDO NJ for example)-- because it's really hard to separate «school effect» from «peer effect» [because «peers» are an integral part of the «school»] Clearly, schools like North Star that serve substantively different student populations than district schools, and shed «weak» non-compliant students (& their parents) at astounding rates, create peer conditions that are advantageous to those few (50 % or so) who actually make it thropeer effect» [because «peers» are an integral part of the «school»] Clearly, schools like North Star that serve substantively different student populations than district schools, and shed «weak» non-compliant students (& their parents) at astounding rates, create peer conditions that are advantageous to those few (50 % or so) who actually make it thropeer conditions that are advantageous to those few (50 % or so) who actually make it through.

One of the biggest changes in achievement gaps between 1971 and 2012 is a 27 - point narrowing between the average reading scores of black and white 17 - year - old students.The report's data indicate that such race - based gaps have narrowed because black and Hispanic students have made larger gains than their white peers.

But some cheat because the humiliation of not keeping up with peers is stronger than the risk of getting caught, says ASU's Amrein - Beardsley.

Sweet noted that students with disabilities continue to be suspended at significantly higher rates than their peers, and said her office sees «so many cases of kids with disabilities who get caught doing something bad because of their disability.»

Because of their increased dropout rate, as well as societal stigma surrounding them and a number of other factors, teenage parents and their children are at risk of experiencing worse psychosocial and socioeconomic outcomes than their peers (Kiselica & Pfaller, 1993; Coren et al., 2003).

If they have been mandated to become involved because of a school leader's orders, these adults can receive more guidance from their peers rather than their supervisors.

More than half of the voucher students tested below the national average in reading, math and language and overall performed below their peers in public schools though it is not a precise comparison because the law allows voucher schools to select their own national tests.

The car could also handle better than most of it's peers because of Chrysler's exclusive use of torsion bar front suspension, with extra long leafs at the rear.

I would just add the caution that, because writing groups are composed of peers rather than authorities, it's important to know the difference between a writing group and an editor.

Indeed, many of the best decline more dramatically than their peers because the high conviction, high independence portfolios that are signs of their distinction also can leave them exposed when things turn bad.

But the reason to own individual stocks is because you believe they will perform better than the majority of their peers.

If, however, I could get a chance to buy Yamana Gold at $ 9 or less because of troubles at its sector peers, I think the risk would be more than repaid by the potential reward.»

But the real advantage of behavioral economics is probably not to investors, but to businessmen setting their pricing, because men do not look to maximize utility, but rather to do good enough, and get a better deal than peers.