Sentences with phrase «worse than the disadvantaged»

Nor did they do much worse than the disadvantaged whites included in the study.

Not exact matches

I think if he were to play with worse rebounders he would rebound more, just the team would have rebounding as a disadvantage rather than an advantage

White men hate their rivals far worse than those they deem as inferior, and, often times, there are great disadvantages for being white.

A report published recently by IPR North has already found that disadvantaged pupils in the North begin school at a worse off position academically than those in the capital.

I explain that 25 years of research has shown that score inflation is common, that it is often very large, and that the limited research on its distribution suggests that both inflation and bad test preparation affect disadvantaged students more than others.

But now, schools with large concentrations of economically disadvantaged and minority students, English Language Learners, or students with disabilities would all be penalized unfairly, worse than they are under NCLB.

To sum up, comparable data for 1990 and 2009 on youth reveals that low - educated women are in more disadvantage than in the past while low - educated men are worse in the quality of jobs they access to but not in terms of unemployment.

Worse, the gap has widened over time: «American children raised in single - parent homes appear to be at a greater disadvantage educationally than ever before,» they write.

Many states and districts will take the easier path than trying to educate ALL children, disadvantaged students will lose out, and millions of young people who could have become hard - working taxpayers will end up jobless, in prison, or worse.

Recent research by MIT economist David Autor and colleagues generates quasi-experimental estimates of family background by simultaneously accounting for the impact of neighborhood environment and school quality to investigate why boys fare worse than girls in disadvantaged families.

In the study, researchers David Autor, David Figlio, Krzysztof Karbownik, Jeffrey Roth, and Melanie Wasserman find that any disadvantage (e.g. growing up in poverty, living in a bad neighborhood, being raised without a father), takes more of a toll on boys than on girls.

In fact Ofsted analysis showed that many academies were performing worse than other local authority schools, while a Sutton Trust report in 2014 warned that they were worse for disadvantaged pupils.

We know that children living in disadvantage do worse than those from affluent areas, not because the schools are poorer, but in fact because of a combination of a number of factors.

But in many more academies, disadvantaged pupils did worse than those in mainstream schools.

On Wednesday, the education select committee called for greater efforts to support poor white pupils, who had much worse exam results than disadvantaged black and Asian pupils.

In top - performing schools, historically disadvantaged students perform worse relative to their school's overall performance than in lower - performing schools.

Of course, the state reported that «Economically Disadvantaged» students did poorly as a group (21 % met or exceeded the standard) and «English Learners» did worse than any group (only 11 % met or exceeded the standard).

A surprising implication of these findings is that, relative to white children, black boys fare worse than their sisters in significant part because black children — both boys and girls — are raised in more disadvantaged family environments.

At worst, there is no loss in achievement, unless of course, the computer product being used is of inferior quality or the use of the computer becomes nothing more than a redundant practice and drill mechanism, ultimately conveying lower expectations to already disadvantaged students.

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

New research shows disadvantaged children living in rural areas do worse at school than their city counterparts.

Obviously, an R7 rating in a consumer proposal is much worse than a perfect R1 credit rating, so that is an obvious disadvantage of a consumer proposal.

While there are disadvantages to an anonymous review process, the cure is worse than the disease..

There's never a bad time to update your resume, and there are more advantages than disadvantages to changing jobs during the holidays.

Worse than that, outcomes in the strategic areas identified as critical to overcoming disadvantage in the long term remain well short of what is needed.

Because childhood ADHD is believed to carry long - term disadvantages, even among individuals who no longer meet criteria for the disorder, 15 we hypothesized that even probands without any ongoing mental disorder at follow - up would have relatively worse occupational and social functioning than those without childhood ADHD.

Because sample attrition is greater among individuals with bad health and respondents in age heterogamous unions have worse health than their counterparts in age homogamous unions, it is possible that we may be underestimating the health disadvantage of respondents in age heterogamous unions relative to those married to spouses who are similar in age.