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Download full textCartwright, Fernando; Allen, Mary K. – Human Resources Development Canada, 2002
This study uses data from the Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) and the Programme for International Assessment (PISA) to measure the difference in reading performance between students in rural and urban schools in each Canadian province and to identify factors that may help to explain rural-urban differences. The study looks at some of the factors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Gap, Reading Achievement, Urban Schools
