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  2. Not only a matter of education - HuffPost

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    An overview of the achievement gap and other measurements of education achievement The most common way of measuring education achievement in the US is through standardized test scores. The following is an overview of the situation of Hispanic students compared to other ethnicities in this regard.

  3. Education Resources Information Center - Wikipedia

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    Education research and information are essential to improving teaching, learning, and educational decision-making. ERIC provides access to 1.5 million bibliographic records ( citations , abstracts , and other pertinent data) of journal articles and other education-related materials, with hundreds of new records added every week.

  4. Rural American history - Wikipedia

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    The rural population is defined by size of place under 2500 and includes non-farmers living in villages and the open countryside. At the first census in 1790, the rural population was 3.7 million and urban only 202,000.

  5. Journal of Educational Measurement - Wikipedia

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    The Journal of Educational Measurement is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the National Council on Measurement in Education. The journal was established in 1948 and assumed its current name and numbering in 1964. Blackwell Publishing (now Wiley-Blackwell) began publishing the journal for the NCME in 2005. [1]

  6. Rural diversity - Wikipedia

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    Rural diversity refers to the presence of a diverse population of people in a low-density area outside of a city. While the term "rural" is contextual, it generally refers to a relatively low population density, a land-based economy (particularly agricultural), and a distinct regional identity.

  7. SUMMARY OF KEY FINDINGS GETTING AHEAD OR LOSING GROUND ...

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    By forging a broad and nonpartisan agreement on the facts, figures and trends related to mobility, the Economic Mobility Project seeks to focus public attention on this critically important issue and generate an active policy debate about how best to ensure that the

  8. Rurality - Wikipedia

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    Rurality is used as an expression of different rural areas as not being homogeneously defined. [ clarification needed ] Many authors involved in mental health research in rural areas stress the importance of steering clear of inflexible blanket definitions of rurality ( Philo, Parr & Burns 2003 ), and to instead "select definitions of rurality ...

  9. Rural development - Wikipedia

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    Often, rural regions have experienced rural poverty, poverty greater than urban or suburban economic regions due to lack of access to economic activities, and lack of investments in key infrastructure such as education. Rural development has traditionally centered on the exploitation of land-intensive natural resources such as agriculture and ...