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Klara Björkum; Goran Basic – Educational Research, 2024
Background: Access to higher education in rural areas has been a recurring theme of debates and government inquiries in many countries in recent decades. Previous research is relatively unequivocal regarding the importance of higher education for regional or national development, identifying the local presence of highly educated individuals in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Universities, Access to Education
Denice, Patrick; Gross, Betheny – Urban Institute, 2018
In an analysis of 3,100 students entering ninth grade in Denver, this report identified 1,000 "super travelers," students willing to travel farther or past more schools to get to their first-choice high school. Super travelers' first-choice schools had better academic outcomes, fewer disciplinary incidents, and more advanced courses and…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Urban Areas, Travel, High Schools