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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.
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.
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]
Country is a subjective state that perceives the rural experience as focal and inseparable to one's collective identity, regardless of location.This is often expressed in the demarginalization of ideas, values or lifestyles held as being representative of such a character, although a concise understanding of Country is difficult because the essential elements are perceived differently among ...
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
Rural areas in the United States, often referred to as rural America, [1] consists of approximately 97% of the United States' land area. An estimated 60 million people, or one in five residents (17.9% of the total U.S. population), live in rural America.
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 ...
Rural spaces add new challenges for economic analysis that require an understanding of economic geography: for example understanding of size and spatial distribution of production and household units and interregional trade, [6] land use, [7] and how low population density effects government policies as to development, investment, regulation ...