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Download full textAbbott, Stephen E. – Connection: The Journal of the New England Board of Higher Education, 2006
While many efforts to reform high schools target large cities, a similar minority located at the fringes of American culture has been relatively overlooked. Low-income, rural students suffer many of the same social maladies--such as severe poverty and widespread drug abuse--as urban minority children, and they are comparably disadvantaged when it…
Descriptors: Higher Education, High Schools, School Restructuring, Income
