As a result,
rural students often lag their peers in advanced courses, and also in college attendance and completion.
Rural students often lack access to opportunities afforded to their urban and suburban peers.
Rural students often have lesser learning options due to the lack of infrastructures and resources.
Not exact matches
But still, as a pupil in the
rural area of Thuringia in the 1980ies, he could hear a lot of antisemitic, facist and racist statements of peer
students on the schoolground,
often in form of «jokes «like «Ich bin hungrig / mir ist kalt — ich will zurück nach Buchenwald «(I am hungry, I am cold — I want to go back to Buchenwald «-RRB-.
School closures
often affect poor
students, African - American
students, and
rural communities like Hughes, Ark..
«I think that means a lot in a
rural context where the school is
often the heart of all the opportunities that can be made for
students.
Wang, a former Fulbright Fellow and now a second - year doctoral
student at HGSE, saw firsthand as an 11th - grade English teacher that the needs of
rural, low - income communities
often aren't represented in state policy, but are overlooked in favor of efforts that target urban areas because there's little awareness of the
rural problems and few advocates are calling for change.
The Greenville, Tennessee — based Niswonger Foundation, for example, offers the most talented college - bound
students full scholarships to postsecondary schools of their choosing in exchange for commitment to return to and work in their
often -
rural eastern Tennessee communities for the same number of years they receive the scholarship.
And as David Miller notes in his 2014 eLearning article Online Learning Advantages: Why Online Learning Offers Plenty of Incentives, besides physical college campuses
often feeling too far and few between, living in a
rural community «can be even more difficult for
students to find experts in the fields they're interested in».
Rural Vermont is idyllic, but
students here don't
often meet people from different backgrounds.
Pete Bylsma, director of research for the OSPI, said
students in smaller,
rural schools
often feel more connected to their schools and more pressure to stay through graduation.
For example, IDEA supported local communities that were developing and implementing early childhood programs; schools serving
students with low - incidence disabilities, such as children who are blind or deaf or children with autism or traumatic brain injury; and schools in
rural or large urban areas, where financial and other resources are
often scarce.
We are working here to develop a solution to a very specific, yet highly consequential, problem that afflicts
rural and poor communities across the U.S. —
students who have the aptitude and work ethic to excel academically
often lack access to the advanced coursework needed to fulfill their potential.
Being from a
rural background means
students often have a different repertoire for language because of their exposure to different environments and situations.
Educational barriers and challenges
often vary by region, yet at districts where odds seem disproportionately stacked against
student success — such as Jefferson County Schools (JCS) in
rural West Virginia — school leaders know that delivering excellence in education requires vision, strategy and, sometimes, complete process overhaul.
Sandra Williams of New Mexico wrote about some of the unique challenges of teaching in a
rural community with limited resources and
students who
often come from impoverished backgrounds.
However,
students at Big City School reported feeling safe much less
often than did their peers at the other two schools (65 percent, compared with 83 percent at Small City School and 81 percent at
Rural School).
Allowing
students to use their interests to guide their work requires them to have good relationships with their teachers, and those connections are
often present in a
rural setting where everyone knows everyone else, he said.
«Our
students often enter university having left family and community behind, travelling long distances from
rural areas, and this first year for us includes huge amounts of change.