The phrase 'overcome disadvantage' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to overcoming any type of disadvantage, whether it's a physical, financial, or social disadvantage. For example, "Sara worked hard to overcome her financial disadvantage and went on to achieve great success."
You will never "close the gap" if you continue to cut the services that are required in order to overcome disadvantage.
These include: Concentrating on preschool and early years education in line with research showing this is by far the best way to overcome disadvantage, to the benefit of the individual and economic productivity.
School reform involves relatively little money and no large-scale initiatives, asks practically nothing of the nonpoor and is accompanied by the ennobling sensation that comes from expressing faith in the capacity of the poor to overcome disadvantage by themselves.
They can try to manufacture diversity by giving more weight in admissions to those factors that are sometimes close substitutes for race — for example, having overcome disadvantage in a poor urban neighborhood.
In response, a Department for Education spokesman said: "We know there is more to do, but this report proves that the best state schools can overcome disadvantage thanks to our reforms and the work of skilful, dedicated and hard-working teachers".
If the justices further restrict or ban the use of race-based affirmative action, more universities will most likely find themselves embroiled in debates like the one at U.C.L.A.: Are admissions officers illegally taking race into account — or legally going to extra lengths to reward students for having overcome disadvantage, which happens to benefit black and Latino students?
Around the same time, the law school of the University of Texas at Austin began to invite all applicants to write a personal statement about the ways in which they had overcome disadvantages of any kind.
The marginal median and the L-estimate approach can be used to overcome disadvantages of iterative procedure for the robust CTD calculation.
This implies the opportunity to provide teachers and policy makers with useful information to overcome disadvantages and inequality from the earlier years of schooling.
Especially, in the field of fuel cell, novel materials for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) have been noticed to overcome disadvantages of conventional platinum-based catalysts.
The present procedure using a single pair of primers for two fragments can overcome disadvantages in quantitative analysis using multiplex PCR.
