Understanding the rural - urban reading gap - November 2002
- Title Page
- Acknowledgements
- Note of appreciation
- Summary
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Urban students outperform rural students in reading
- 3. How do rural and urban students and schools differ?
- 4. What rural characteristics lie behind the difference in reading performance?
- 5. Schools matter
- Conclusions
- Appendix A: Tables
- Appendix B: Definitions and Concepts
- Appendix C: Analytical methodology
- Appendix D: Survey concepts, methodology and data quality
- References
- Culture, Tourism and the Centre for Education Statistics