Inadequate funding, lower literacy rates, and
less access to advanced courses such as AP and STEM classes impact rural students» achievement, creating significant barriers to their success.
This also means expanding opportunities for high - quality education — from greater
access to Advanced Placement
courses to the expansion of high - quality charter schools — so that children from poor and minority households, especially young black men and women who did the worst on NAEP this year (and have
less access to college - preparatory
courses in traditional districts) can succeed in school and in life.