Sentence examples for advantage children from inspiring English sources

"It is well known in the education community that standardized tests advantage children from wealthier families and disadvantage children from poorer families," Dr. Borland said.

And unlike in sports, where physical size often plays an undeniable, difficult-to-circumvent role in your eventual success, in school a physical disadvantage can turn into an academic advantage: children may learn to compete where they can succeed, where their persistence and attention can accomplish what their physical size may not.

Coupled with that is the inability of poor people to fund further education for their children and the advantage children from wealthy homes have right from the start, and so the cycle continues.

Regarding parental perceived AST advantages, children are less likely to be driven to school if their parents value the exercise attained en route to/from school, B=−0.95, OR=.39, Wald χ (1)=17.75, p <.001, and the more they agree that they chose to live in their current area so that their child can walk to school, B=−0.42, OR= 0.66, Wald χ (1)=13.41, p <.001.

Children from broken homes know how to kick off to their advantage, especially children with latent diva tendencies.

Instances of men of the cloth taking sexual advantage of children are by no means limited to Massachusetts or to the Roman Catholic Church.

The same grim cocktail of conditions that led to the serial abuser taking advantage of children in the entertainment industry also existed in football.

Mrs. Böhmer emphasized that it was an advantage if children were brought up with different languages and cultures, and added that employers could use such experiences.

Russ Whitehurst of the Brookings Institution summarizes the findings of the most rigorous research: "There is no measurable advantage to children in elementary school of having participated in Head Start.

Perhaps more significantly, the impact on the community of parental practice of passing on material advantage to children is probably the greatest obstacle in the path of social mobility.

We must make inroads into the vast gap between what the state spends on average per household on education and the fees paid by wealthy parents to independent schools to advantage their children.