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Download full textDepatie, Raymond; And Others – 1975
The focus of this study was to identify schools, located on the Island of Montreal, which may be called "disadvantaged area schools", or, in other words, to identify schools in which a considerable proportion of the students come from disadvantaged areas. Three factors are discussed which are said to produce considerable difficulties in…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Community Characteristics, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth
Cartwright, Fernando; Allen, Mary K. – Human Resources Development Canada, 2002
This study uses data from the Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) and the Programme for International Assessment (PISA) to measure the difference in reading performance between students in rural and urban schools in each Canadian province and to identify factors that may help to explain rural-urban differences. The study looks at some of the factors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Gap, Reading Achievement, Urban Schools
