Sentence examples for academic disadvantage from inspiring English sources

A recent report by a team from Queen's and the University of Ulster shows the 11-plus has increased social and academic disadvantage.

Those who manage to support themselves by working will be at a serious academic disadvantage for doing so – others may drop out altogether".

Colleges that urge first-generation students to be more independent — to express themselves, find their passions, and realize their individual potential — may be putting some of those students at an academic disadvantage.

Mr. Snyder is part of a growing group of educators, practitioners and lawmakers pushing to replace discipline tactics in public schools that they say do not improve behavior and disproportionately target minority students, putting them at a greater academic disadvantage.

But parents at both schools wondered yesterday whether the likely split shifts -- Brooklyn Tech students are to report to school at 7 a.m. on Thursday, Stuyvesant students at 11 -- would put their children at an academic disadvantage, particularly those worried about entering competitive colleges.

These studies report a short-term age-related academic disadvantage for younger students but no long-term disadvantage in terms of labor market outcomes.

The alternative explanation offered by our study does not necessarily exclude the age position effect as one possible mechanism for the cutoff date effect nor does it conflict with Liu and Li's finding that students who are younger than their peers may suffer academic disadvantages.

Others warn that because the approach lets children choose their own projects, it leaves them bereft of basic academic skills, a disadvantage in New York's often cutthroat testing culture, in which the search for a place at a top-flight school can border on obsession.

On the other hand, bibliometrics and other conventional indicators of research output recognise the work of basic scientists who publish in journals with high impact factors and are part of large groups of authors, but may disadvantage academic physicians who devote a significant part of their time to clinical work and publish in specialty-specific journals.

The exact enrollment cutoff date, however, is somewhat arbitrarily chosen, imposing uniform school-entry timing even when young children of the same age may vary in school readiness, leading to academic advantages or disadvantages for children born in different months (Bedard and Dhuey 2006; Dhuey and Lipscomb 2010; McEwan and Shapiro 2008; Mühlenweg and Puhani 2010).

No interactions were observed between school entry academic skills and socioeconomic disadvantage (p >  .8) or gender (p >  .3) using likelihood ratio tests so interaction terms were not included in models.