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>The "Divide" in the US is Inner-City Schools and poor Rural Schools. If you look at the rest of America's schools they are among the best in the world. There'
by eli_gottlieb 9y ago
>The "Divide" in the US is Inner-City Schools and poor Rural Schools. If you look at the rest of America's schools they are among the best in the world.
There's another way to put that: America's well-off suburbs have very good schools, but most of America does not. We need some numbers on the concentration of school-age children into good suburban districts versus "bad" inner-city and rural districts.
- analog31 9y agoIt might be possible to find a ballpark estimate by the number of poor children.
- baldfat 9y agoTHis is as good as I can find: http://hechingerreport.org/struggling-cities-and-excelling-suburbs-a-repeated-pattern-around-the-country/ http://hechingerreport.org/struggling-cities-and-excelling-s... The issue is defining suburbs. Usually it is Rural vs City (Which includes suburbs)