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07/26/2007: "Rural students perform better in science, reality"

Rural students perform better in science than their urban counterparts, and rural teachers are generally happy with their schools, a federal study says.

That could be because kids get their education in real-world settings as well as classrooms, says Marty Strange, policy director of the Rural School and Community Trust, an advocacy group. "Rural life is a little closer to nature," he said.

[ Closer to reality = better at reality. Our cities breed people who are good at BSing each other but poor at making things work in something as complex as real life. Idiocracy, indeed! ]



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070726/ap_on_sc/rural_students

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on Friday, July 27th, Osama bin Laden said

You're not really getting at the problem. Its race and its correlation with IQ and nothing more. The article tries to deny this by making up excuses about being closer to nature or lower teacher/student ratios.

Here is the key quote:

"At all grade levels, rural students did better on national science tests than children in cities and performed about the same as suburban students"

Urban = Blacks
Suburban = Whites
Rural = Whites