Ms Partan refers to Americas number 18 position in the Educational Disadvantage League in the UNICEF report. I was prepared to be shocked.

帕坦女士提到美国在联合国儿童基金会报告中的“教育缺陷排列”表中名列十八，于是我做好心理准备来看令人震惊的信息。

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Teach First founder and chief executive Brett Wigdortz says: we are committed to addressing educational disadvantage, and to do this we need to engage with children as early as possible.

以教为先的创始人、首席执行官魏道慈(Brett Wigdortz)说：“我们致力于扭转教育劣势，要做到这点，就必须尽可能早地与儿童接触。”

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His poor educational track record inevitably worked to his disadvantage.

他很差的学习成绩记录肯定会对他不利。

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In other words, the Oxbridge admissions process is probably reflecting a pre-established pattern of educational disadvantage, not creating it.

BBC: Month of birth affects chance of attending Oxbridge

Underlining its disadvantage against Cisco, 3Com will initially target sales to government, educational, and certain retail and distribution businesses that use multiple vendors for their networks.

FORBES: Cisco, 3Com Want to Be Everywhere

This research, by Mark Regnerus, a sociologist at the University of Texas Austin, found that children raised in a household where a parent was involved in a same-sex romantic relationship were at a significant disadvantage with respect to a number of indicators of well being such as depression, educational attainment and criminal behavior compared with children of intact biological families.

WSJ: Nelson Lund: A Social Experiment Without Science Behind It