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I recall some twenty - three years ago when, as a young seminarian serving a congregation of tenant farm families in rural Virginia, one of my duties was to teach a class for high school students each Sunday morning.

• The Rural Technology Fund, founded by a tech executive who had limited access to computers when he was growing up in rural Kentucky, helps out - of - the - way schools get equipment and books to help ignite a «spark» for studying electronics, programming or engineering; and gives scholarships to students from rural communities who hope to pursue careers in technoRural Technology Fund, founded by a tech executive who had limited access to computers when he was growing up in rural Kentucky, helps out - of - the - way schools get equipment and books to help ignite a «spark» for studying electronics, programming or engineering; and gives scholarships to students from rural communities who hope to pursue careers in technorural Kentucky, helps out - of - the - way schools get equipment and books to help ignite a «spark» for studying electronics, programming or engineering; and gives scholarships to students from rural communities who hope to pursue careers in technorural communities who hope to pursue careers in technology.

Christina Alexander was the president of the sophomore class at Sherburne - Earlville Central School in rural Chenango County when the student body decided to retire its Indian mascot, while leaving the team's name - the Marauders — unchanged.

When Sandi Roberts and David Smith began teaching their eighth - grade students at rural Whitwell (Tennessee) Middle School about the Holocaust, they realized how difficult it was for students to grasp the enormity of human loss.

Some districts in the largely rural state have long - standing voucher - like programs, called «tuitioning,» in which they pay to enroll students at secular private schools or public schools in other districts when...

We also confirm that we obtain similar results when we control for student characteristics measured at or before the PSAT / NMSQT, including sex, parental education, family income level, whether a student took the PSAT / NMSQT in 10th grade and his or her previous score, indicators for ethnic background (for example, Mexican, Cuban), and controls for the type of high school attended, including affiliation (public or private), urbanicity (that is, city, suburban, rural), size, and concentration of Hispanic students.

Online learning can also support rural students when shrinking budgets and strained resources limit access to libraries and other learning materials.

Other projects created during the class include an organization that will provide free public libraries in India; an online platform to help students make more informed decisions when applying to college; an app that gives students fun, game - based content that shows what real scientists are like; a cellphone - hosted service for rural teachers in the Philippines that provides direct training and tips; and a nonprofit that will train and employ parent liaisons to develop stronger bonds between families and middle schools in an effort to improve dropout rates.

«Our evidence suggests that, on average, students do worse academically when they attend middle schools than when they attend K — 8 schools — and that this is true in urban, suburban, and rural settings.

When faced with soaring transportation costs and students on buses for as long as four hours each day, some rural school districts pared the fifth day of instruction into fourths and tacked this time onto the end of the remaining four weekdays, creating a four - day school week.

When considering online education for either students in rural communities who have «access to only a limited number of course offerings in their public schools» or advanced students interested in taking courses for college credit, the public expresses considerable support.

And that is exactly what Colbert and her colleagues did in the 1970s when they recognized that rural schools in the country were faltering due to a lack of understanding around the unique challenges that their students faced.

New technologies and staffing strategies allow rural schools to increase the number of students receiving high - quality instruction, even when the supply of local teachers remains limited.

Player also found that while rural schools employ fewer black and Latino teachers on average, when controlling for student demographics, these schools employ a greater percentage of black teachers than urban and town schools and a greater percentage of Latino teachers than suburban and town schools.

(Carl Glickman, Institute for Schools, Education, and Democracy, Inc.) Minnesota New Country is one of the most important schools in the country: it demonstrates what can happen when students take ownership for their own learning and when teachers take ownership for the learning environment; it demonstrates that small rural schools can thrive and help all students succeed.

A study released this month by the American Association of School Administrators on equity for rural schools found that, due to the sheer distance between schools, rural students don't truly have a choice when it comes to enrolling in a school that will meet their needs.

When they weren't in the van, they were visiting schools in five remote communities across three Northwest states as part of NW RISE — a project that aims to increase rural students» engagement in their schools and community.

Plans are to develop full CTE pathways, when possible, rather than individual courses so that students in rural communities have access to quality CTE programs.

When the state took control of the Tate County School District in 2009, the rural district that serves about 3,000 students was more than $ 1 million in debt.

Caitlin Scott writes about the difficulties rural schools might face when replacing principals and a concept she finds promising for engaging rural students.

Students at Rural School had more faith that their teachers could stop the bullying when they were told about it than did students at the other two Students at Rural School had more faith that their teachers could stop the bullying when they were told about it than did students at the other two students at the other two schools.

When a rural district encouraged teachers to turn assessment into ongoing communication, students learned to advance their own learning.

The Nebraska Library Commission project is designed to help rural students be on equal footing when it comes to int... https://t.co/wH2JD1pZFw

Parents of our urban and rural students also serve parents that know their public schools are of good quality, but they also know that they house the hoodlums they had to deal with when they were in school.

Rural students, however, had little or no access to AP courses, a clear disadvantage when applying to college.

Claresholm Elementary, a K — 3 rural public school serving 185 students in Alberta, Canada, found the impetus to change when we looked more closely at our school's historically high reading scores.