claim: rural schools "face the highest dropout rates, the lowest college enrollment rates, have the lowest average teacher salaries..."
author: john edwards
evidence_1: in response, poor parents in some low income countries have organized and  paid for their children's education themselves. ... (these are net enrollment  figures, defined as the percentage of children in the appropriate age group who  are in school; gross enrollment rates include children who are older than is  customary for ...
evidence_2: the final six bars compare schools with different quantitative measures of school  quality (dropout rate, teacher base salary and percentage of students in remedial  courses); the bars compare the average earnings of students who attended  schools in either the lowest or highest 25 percent of each measure with the  average ...
evidence_3: rural dropouts. the high school status dropout rate for rural areas (11.1%) is the  same as the national average. (11.1%), while the suburban dropout rate is 9.0%  .... school structure. • large school size, particularly for low ses schools has also  been linked to higher dropout rates. school resources. • high student-teacher ...
evidence_4: of achievement.1 such low-performing schools face a number of common  challenges. for .... ninth graders attending the program showed an average one- and- ... satisfactory level on the state assessment, and have no more than a 3  percent high school dropout rate. c. in new york, at least 90 percent of students  in each ...
evidence_5: poor and minority students are concentrated in the least well-funded schools,  most of which are located in central cities or rural areas and funded at levels ...  recent evidence from individual states like texas, florida, and georgia where  exit exams have been instituted indicates that dropout and pushout rates have ...