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Contexts of Educational Aspirations and School Grades of Rural Students

Alejandra Miranda, Michael C. Rodriguez
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences May 2022, 8 (3) 172-188; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.3.07
Alejandra Miranda
aGraduate student in the quantitative methods in education program in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota, United States
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Michael C. Rodriguez
bProfessor of educational measurement in the Department of Educational Psychology and dean of the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota, United States
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    • Abstract
    • PERSISTENT CHALLENGES IN RURAL COMMUNITIES AND SCHOOLS
    • SCHOOL GRADES AND EDUCATIONAL ASPIRATIONS
    • POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
    • SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING
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    • DEFINING RURAL AND URBAN SCHOOL DISTRICTS
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