Educational Disadvantages
In 2000, 80.49 percent of all adults in the United States were high school graduates, as opposed to 76.89 in Appalachia. Almost 30 percent of Appalachian adults are considered functionally illiterate. Educational differences between men and women are greater in Appalachia than the rest of the nation, tying into a greater trend of gender inequalities.
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“Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational settings.”
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