Last Updated: October 29, 2012
This article appeared in the October 2012 Rural Policy Matters.
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Source: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 2011 Writing Assessment.
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