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#Activism: Understanding How Student Leaders Utilize Social Media For Social Or Political Change, Genia Bettencourt
#Activism: Understanding How Student Leaders Utilize Social Media For Social Or Political Change, Genia Bettencourt
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(Social) Class Is In Session: Becoming Student-Ready For The Working-Class, Genia Bettencourt
(Social) Class Is In Session: Becoming Student-Ready For The Working-Class, Genia Bettencourt
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Narrowed Gaps And Persistent Challenges: Examining Rural-Nonrural Disparities In Postsecondary Outcomes Over Time, Ryan Wells, Catherine A. Manly, Suzan Kommers, Ezekiel Kimball
Narrowed Gaps And Persistent Challenges: Examining Rural-Nonrural Disparities In Postsecondary Outcomes Over Time, Ryan Wells, Catherine A. Manly, Suzan Kommers, Ezekiel Kimball
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Empirical studies have concluded that rural students experience lower rates of college enrollment and degree completion compared to their nonrural peers, but this literature needs to be expanded and updated for a continually changing context. This article examines the rural-nonrural disparities in students’ postsecondary trajectories, influences, and outcomes. By comparing results to past research using similar national data and an identical design, we are able to examine change over time. Results show narrowed gaps from the 1990s into the 2000s, but with rural students still facing persistent challenges and experiencing lower average rates of college enrollment and degree completion.
Who Are Rural Students? How Definitions Of Rurality Affect Research On College Completion, Catherine A. Manly, Ryan S. Wells, Suzan Kommers
Who Are Rural Students? How Definitions Of Rurality Affect Research On College Completion, Catherine A. Manly, Ryan S. Wells, Suzan Kommers
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Given a revived national discourse about rural populations, more educational research on rural students is necessary, including ways that rural students transition to college and the success (or lack thereof) that they experience once there. However, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has changed the definition of rurality used in each iterative dataset over the last few decades, casting doubt on the consistency of what is meant by the term rural. The purpose of this study is to: (a) communicate to the educational research audience various ways of defining rural students, and specifically how NCES has changed their definition …