Sentences with phrase «attended rural public schools»

She attended rural public schools all her life, including one so far from her home that, when she was in third through fifth grades, she endured a two - hour bus ride each way.

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In many instances, public transportation is not available in rural areas, so I decided that I was going to attend a school that was located in or very close to a metropolitan area.

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.

One in five students in the United States — 19.4 percent — attends a public elementary or secondary school designated as rural.

Before attending Columbia, Jamie spent two years teaching English to seventh and eighth graders at a rural public school in southwest China, where her students tried to help her overcome a fear of large insects by putting cicadas in her hair.

School choice also includes open enrollment — allowing students to attend public schools outside their neighborhood boundaries — and distance learning options that can help connect children in rural communities.

PARSS began in 1983 as a group of public school superintendents who expressed concern that Pennsylvania students in rural and small school districts did not have access to the same quality of education afforded to students attending school in the more metropolitan areas of the state.