... into the students" experiences and goals there. The collection of scholarly essays, Rural Education and Training in the New Economy: the Myth of the Rural Skills Gap, was the single most useful and relevant resource I came upon. Each chapter provided statistics that allowed unbiased comparison of the two social structures, both rural and urban. For example, "Rural Teachers and Schools", by Dale Ballou and ... Michael Podgursky, provided statistical charts comparing ratios of students to teachers ... not lend space to urban development and education. Comparing the sources I found, the mos...

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