Sentence examples for less advantaged parents from inspiring English sources

Oglesby is well aware that, being middle-class, she had knowhow and contacts not available to less advantaged parents.

Less advantaged parents I work with tell me that they can't afford the extracurricular activities that can keep kids from turning to screens and phones.

These findings suggest that giving parents additional information about college quality could help less-advantaged parents make decisions that are similar to those made by the savviest consumers in the market.

You don't solve problems in the less advantaged parts of society by simply filling voids and filling gaps.

Harth and Thong reported that, among other characteristics, parents who put their child forward for an asthma trial were less educated and from less advantaged backgrounds than parents who declined [ 71] while a study of factors influencing consent to a neonatal trial found no such differences [ 28].

All the mayoral candidates demanded parents to step-up to the plate, but parents, particularly in less advantaged neighborhoods, need help accessing existing resources and forging connections (see my post, Political Will).

Moreover, the compliers left school with fewer years of education at younger ages, have lower age-adjusted AFQT scores, have less educated parents, and have otherwise less advantaged family backgrounds (e.g., at age 14 they have less access to cultural materials in the home and are more likely to live in a rural area) than the non-compliers.

But given that parents will always seek to give their children an advantage, any scheme that enables children from less advantaged background to benefit from individual tuition has got to be applauded.

On average, more educated and advantaged parents have children with greater vocabulary skills and faster vocabulary growth during early childhood than less educated and advantaged parents (Hart & Risley, 1995; Hoff, 2003).

But our less advantaged women couldn't see the possibilities.

The fact is that for every parent who plays the system to get their child into a top school, a child from a less advantaged background is likely to lose out.