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Gagnon, Douglas; Mattingly, Marybeth J. – Carsey Institute, 2012
This brief considers whether the concentration of beginning teachers in a district is associated with the district's poverty rate, racial composition, or urbanicity. Authors Douglas Gagnon and Marybeth Mattingly report that poor communities have moderately higher percentages of beginning teachers than communities with lower poverty rates and that…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Racial Composition, Minority Group Students, Beginning Teachers
Graham, Suzanne E. – Carsey Institute, 2009
This Carsey brief reveals that students in rural areas and small towns have less access to higher-level mathematics courses than students in urban settings, which results in serious educational consequences, including lower scores on assessment tests and fewer qualified students entering science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) job…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Rural Areas, Rural Urban Differences, Community Characteristics