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Rural Vs. Urban Education

KYLIE: From Project Muse: Education and the Inequalities of Place Vincent J. Roscigno, Donald Tomaskovic Devey, Martha L. Crowley Social Forces, Volume 84, Number 4, June 2006, Page 2121-2145 Students living in rural areas of the US have lower educational achievement and a higher probability of dropping out of high school, compared to suburban counterparts. -Difference between rural and inner city..should we address or clump into one?

The differences between inner city and rural areas and suburbia (Urban vs. rural).

Educational Success: measured by standardized tests score, has become big focus in US educational politics in regards to evaluating the teachers or schools and increasing the mandatory testing. However, "poorly performing" schools are often serving the most impoverished US populations and tend to be located in disadvantaged areas. -Family and school influencing performance

Resources Available: differs greatly in regards to rural vs. suburban areas due to local economy. "Urban inner city areas, once the bastion of U.S. manufacturing, have witnessed decentralization and capital flight since the 1950's. Frequently, what remains is a poor and often minority population increasingly dependent on low-wage and relatively unstable service sectors jobs" whereas suburban areas tend to have two-parent, educated families with lower rates of poverty. -Family resources: socioeconomic status and economic well-being of children in inner cities and rural areas has increased in the last 3 decades which in turn, affects their educational success. "Research has repeatedly shown, socioeconomic status of a student's household is consistently influential for both achievement and attainment" possibly because "influence of economic well-being on cognitive development early in the educational trajectory" -Amount of time and money that parents can invest in their kids education is also huge factor. "Middle and upper class parents can hire tutors and make time to meet with teachers; they are more likely to utilize "proper" English in the household; and they tend to structure their children's leisure time in educationally meaningful ways" -On average, children do not do well in school in single parent or step-parent families -Economic opportunity influences the availability of school resources b/c of school funding

Investment Decisions : Even if families do have the resources available to them, doesn't mean they are going to use them. "People who live in communities with historically limited access to education or modest economic returns to educational investments may simply invest less in education" 1) Parents can invest and transmit their cultural capital to their children (attending museums, extra curriculars, having educational items in the house) -People have to know that there is a connection between investing resources and academic success before they do it. -Need to recognize the distinction between resources available and investing them -Investment decisions are a function of both resources available and political processes regarding distribution of public funds

Results of their study: inner cities and rural places lack many of the resources that promote educational achievement and attainment. Families have lower income, less parental education and more siblings per househould. Inner city schools have high populations of poor, non-white students. Rural schools have pooer students also.

Rural Education

THisw part — Preceding unsigned comment added by Soc221 kyschmi (talk • contribs) 00:24, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Urban Education

Hey

Merger discussion for Inequalities in rural and inner city education

An article that you have been involved in editing—Inequalities in rural and inner city education—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. LittlePuppers (talk) 01:09, 20 April 2018 (UTC)