Tag: post-secondary

Fewer rural students head for college. The problem for rural places: Fewer college graduates return

Mar 18, 2014

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by

Kulm Messenger

in Communities, Schools

Both North and South Dakota perform well above the national average when it comes to high school graduation rates, but nationwide, graduation rates between rural and urban students are almost too close to call, accepting a margin of error: 83 percent and 86 percent, respectively. However, the discrepancy between rural and urban residents who have…