Sentences with phrase «worse than their counterparts»

For me, anyone that smacks of «Christian» fundamentalism is just as bad, if not worse than their counterparts in other religions.

But the truth of the matter is that children raised by gay and lesbian parents in study after study come out faring no better or worse than their counterparts.

Retained sixth graders did worse than their counterparts who were not held back.

It comes as an international study of educational performance, Pisa, showed that Welsh students did worse than their counterparts in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

In fact, in Milwaukee, students receiving vouchers performed worse than their counterparts in the city's public schools.

In virtually all instances, the charter students did worse than their counterparts in regular public schools.

In many cases, students using vouchers to attend private schools and religious academies are doing worse than their counterparts in public schools.

But, I believe there is an argument for these cosmetic systems being as bad, if not worse than their counterparts.

In order to take advantage of that potential, however, countries and communities must first commit to providing quality ECCE to every child, especially those from the lowest - income households who often fare worse than their counterparts in high - income homes.

Not exact matches

Unlike other generations, we found that Millennials tend to have less positive work experiences as they move up the ladder in an organization; Millennials in executive leadership roles not only reported lower scores than their Boomer and Gen X executive counterparts, they also fared worse than Millennials in front - line manager and department leader roles.

Even today, banks in Europe are in far worse shape than they are in the U.S. American banks didn't have enough capital, either, but they had a lot more than their European counterparts, and for all their ongoing problems, they are much healthier institutions today.

The system threatens to collapse in such a way that will leave a legacy of financial cleanup costs for the bad debts that form the counterpart to the economy's «bad savings», that is, savings lent to speculators who use the money simply to buy existing properties rather than to create new assets.

But because so much of our national income is concentrated in relatively few hands, large numbers of Americans are worse off economically than their counterparts in other advanced countries.

Members of small churches served by part - time lay ministers are not necessarily worse off spiritually than their counterparts in large churches — and perhaps they are better off.

And yeah, you can convince yourself that vegan junk food is slightly less bad than its animal - based counterpart, but that still doesn't mean it's a good idea to eat every day.

Being booked worse than her «white counterparts?»

Each year 10 - 14 youth suicides are directly attributed to bullying (The Home Office) Bullied children are 6 times more likely to contemplate suicide than their non-bullied counterparts 1 in 12 children are badly bullied to the point that it affects their education, relationships and even their prospects for jobs in later life 66 % of paedophiles are known to the child

We've talked repeatedly in these pages about the Democratic advantages when it comes to the actual mechanics of running political campaigns this cycle: they're running more ads, building a strong voter contact program and raising more money (for better or worse) than their Republican counterparts.

The best present for die - hard Republicans is to see that bad Democratic apples are treated differently than their Republican counterparts.

If the smiles are just helping us separate the gentle from the aggressive, then the nice guys should be performing consistently worse than their more hostile counterparts.

Global warming may prove worse for insects — and other cold - blooded critters — living in the steamy tropics than for their counterparts living closer to the frigid polar regions, according to a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

Black Americans of any age also tend to be in worse health than their white counterparts, by any number of measures.

It's an intriguing approach, but implementing it is harder than it sounds: In the wild, malaria - free mosquitoes tend to fare worse than their susceptible counterparts.

Smokers who died at a younger age had had worse physiological function than their same - age non-smoking counterparts at the time they were measured.

The bad news is that for you it comes 3 - 4 days sooner than for your counterparts without extra sugar in their diet; they get to live all of their 18 - day long lifetimes...» MORE

It's not that all breads are «bad,» but rather that any flour (organic or not) is much higher - glycemic than its whole grain counterpart, regardless of whether it comes from sprouted wheat, whole wheat, etc..

The body is a complex machine and making single body parts stronger than their counterparts creates an imbalance that can lead to bad posture and injury.

It seems those common and most used salutations: hi, hey, and hello all do far worse than their slang counterparts: how's it going, what's up, howdy, and hola.

The graphics are both slower and less crisp than its Xbox 360 counterpart, but the worst thing of all is the incredibly long loading times between levels, between cut scenes, while entering menus - and even whilst picking up objects.

Banderas» charming, often comic performance, a cute one by child actor Adrian Alonso as Zorro's son and pint - sized counterpart, an amusing one by Rufus Sewell, who plays his villainous role as a Hispanic Christopher Walken, some imaginative PG - rated methods of disposing of the bad guys and a number of rather audacious parallels to contemporary politics and warfare place this clearly in the «guilty pleasure» category; like the original, it's notably longer than it has any right to be (perhaps Steven Spielberg executive producing both of them is a factor?)

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her, like its counterpart is not essentially a bad movie, but it does has more serious mistakes than Him, and a main one is the script, because you practically go blind if this turns out to be your first approach to her story, Here the feeling that

I know that may be stating the obvious with a Blu - ray release, but keep in mind that commonly some blu - ray releases can look worse than their dvd counterpart due to over saturation or abuse of DNR or just lack of a quality transfer or original quality film to work with.

According to the authors, minority students, with the exception of Asian students, fare worse on the eighth - grade MCAS than their white counterparts.

In 2009, CREDO reported that charter students performed somewhat worse in reading and substantially worse in math than their district school counterparts.

The situation would be even worse in high - and moderate - poverty schools, which tend to have lower levels of teacher quality to start with than their more advantaged counterparts.

Studies show a familiar pattern: middle - income black and Latino students faring worse than their white counterparts with respect to grades, enrollment in advanced courses, and performance on standardized tests.

Sixty percent of the charter schools studied performed worse than their traditional public school counterparts.

That is, charismatic teachers who leave scores of majors in their wake, appear to be no better or worse at teaching the material than their less inspiring counterparts; teachers who are exceptional at conveying course material are no more likely than others at inspiring students to take more courses in the subject area.

The unfortunate fact is that women are still not paid equally to that of their male counterparts, women still are not present in equal numbers in business or politics, and globally women's education, health and the violence against them is worse than that of men.

Similarly, in Louisiana, research after the first and second years of the program found voucher students performed worse than their public school counterparts, but after three years, performance was roughly similar across both groups.

A recent study of virtual schools in Pennsylvania conducted by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University revealed that students in online schools performed significantly worse than their traditional counterparts.

A recent Education Department analysis of that program found that after a year in private school, voucher recipients performed worse on standardized tests than their counterparts who remained in public school.

A Stanford study, however, found that 83 percent of the time charter schools perform the same or worse than their public school counterparts.

Yet despite years of reform and rhetoric, poor children in big cities still go to worse schools than their richer counterparts in suburbs or at private schools.

Five years ago, one group of researchers found that charter school students across Chicago and the whole state of Florida scored slightly worse on math tests than their public high school counterparts.

By every possible indicator, the kids that both of us care so much about — low - income students of color — are doing worse than their higher - income white counterparts.

The study of charter schools in 15 states and the District of Columbia found that, nationally, only 17 % of charter schools do better academically than their traditional counterparts, and more than a third «deliver learning results that are significantly worse than their student [s] would have realized had they remained in traditional public schools.»

On measures widely used to judge all public schools, such as state test scores and graduation rates, virtual schools — often run as charter schools — tend to perform worse than their brick - and - mortar counterparts.

Many educators and other observers want to attribute the decline to the steady increase in the number of students taking the exam, particularly noting the increase in minority students who generally perform worse than their white counterparts.

A 2011 study of Pennsylvania cyber schools found that students in online charter schools performed worse in most measures than their counterparts who spent their days in traditional classrooms.