November 3, 2006
The Geographic Have-Nots: Urban Centers and Rural Regions
Place makes a difference in terms of educational attainment and economic prosperity, measures by which many of the nation's rural areas and urban centers alike lag behind the rest of the nation. In those places, compared with the nation as a whole, higher proportions of children live in poverty, and smaller proportions of adults have earned bachelor's degrees. The gaps are difficult to bridge. Elementary and secondary schools in high-poverty urban and rural areas offer fewer core academic
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