Rural Education
Written by Jackie Mader of The Hechinger Report, this blog discussed the latest news, trends, and issues facing rural schools and students. This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: rural education.
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Rural Point Person at ED Talks Turnaround, Funds
The U.S Department of Education's point person for rural education says he's found a number of successful programs in rural schools around the country, and he's working to help Washington identify and replicate them.
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FFA Student Leaders Urged to Take Charge
The vigor of America's rural communities lies in the hands of its young rural leaders, a top U.S. Department of Agriculture official told National FFA student leaders from across the country meeting in Washington. Read here what Dallas Tonsager, undersecretary for rural development at the USDA, said last week at the annual gathering.
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Program Uses Webcam, Free Technology to Reach Rural Schools
One question lingering after a recent summit in Washington exploring how rural schools can use technology to expand student learning was who might take the lead. (Read Ian Quillan's coverage of the summit on the Digital Education blog.
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New Teachers, Multiple Subjects: Rural Schools Face Dilemma
Stephen Sawchuk, over at the Teacher Beat blog, wrote about a new study that has obvious implications for rural schools. The study, he explains, found Teach For America teachers who are assigned to teach more than one grade, subject, or out-of-field are more likely to leave their schools—or the profession altogether.
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Where is 'Rural' in Race to the Top?
Jerry Johnson of the Rural School and Community Trust gives his take on the 19 finalists vying for a cut of the $3.4 billion left in Race to the Top.
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Wyoming to Washington: Send Support, Not Ultimatums
Rural schools need reforms in federal education policy that provide support, not ultimatums, rural educators told a U.S. Senate committee meeting in Wyoming.
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Lawmakers Say Rural Schools Will Suffer if SRSCA Dropped
Dozens of Congress members are urging the president to re-up 10-year-old legislation that sends millions of dollars to rural schools to replace federal timber revenue.
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Registry Can Enrich Rural Learning, but Where Will the Money Come From?
Arne Duncan's National Learning Registry is a promising idea, but rural schools need the hardware, software, and know-how to use it to their full advantage.
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Rural States Rank Low on Standards Review
Most heavily rural states have language and math guidelines inferior to proposed common academic-core standards, according to a report by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.
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Money, Redesign Likely Themes at Rural Ed Tech Summit
Expect some tension around the issue of federal funding for technology when educators and administrators from rural school districts and top Obama education officials converge for a summit on using technology in rural schools.
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Study: Students Adjust, Teachers Struggle After Consolidation
Students in rural districts readily adapt to the life changes imposed by school consolidation while teachers struggle with new relationships, researchers studying some Arkansas school districts found.
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Native-Language Immersion Schools Raise NCLB Concerns
For an example of how federal education policies can play out at cross-purposes in schools of small scale, read Mary Ann Zehr's story about how provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act are hurdles to native-language immersion schools in rural states.
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Advocates: Private Reform Aid Slights Rural Schools
Rural schools are being left out of pivotal policy changes being tried out in the nation's education system, say some rural advocates, and that goes for reform experiments bankrolled with private dollars from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.