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Studies have found rural students whose parents did not attend college are more likely to drop out of school than their peers.

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• 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.

The findings indicated that student perceptions concerning rural practice and lifestyle changed favorably, with 72 percent agreeing they were more interested in rural medicine than they were before.

Luo says these and other findings helped convince the central government in 2011 to establish a school lunch program now benefiting 20 million rural students daily.

A research team investigating the mental health burden and treatment - seeking behaviors of student veterans attending rural community colleges in the southern United States has found that this population has difficulty integrating into the campus community and needs support to help it succeed.

Cesar Chavez Elementary School, a Spanish - immersion school, in Davis, California, has discovered a way to bring the Spanish - speaking world to life for its students while also allowing them to share ideas and resources with other kids: It found a sister school in rural Nicaragua.

An academic study at her museum found that students, especially those in rural or poor schools, gained skills like critical thinking, historical empathy and tolerance after attending field trips.

The launch took place at the College's Kirkley Hall campus, where business professionals and partners found out about the new venture and talked to the first cohort of Career College land - based and rural tourism students.

student April Wang is using her Education Entrepreneurship Summer Fellowship to help those in disadvantaged rural communities find their voices.

It's an effort to bring young college journalists to rural high schools to teach students how to find, collect, and produce news stories about pressing local issues, and by their work bring these issues to the attention of local, regional, and state media.

But what of rural students, most of whom must look outside of their communities to find the sorts of jobs that college graduates are drawn to?

Stay tuned: Next month we'll be finding out how employee volunteering is supporting students at one rural school in Australia.

Teacher finds out how this approach is helping students at a school in rural Victoria.

UNR made this pivot by leveraging Blackboard (its existing, online student portal) to engage rural social workers, find out what specific challenges they faced, and connect them to one another, as well as to departmental faculty.

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».

Because we use data from an urban school district, our findings may not reflect how automatic admission guarantees affect students in rural or suburban schools.

Their summary of the sector's academic outcomes, which draws heavily on a series of studies by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, is likewise relatively uncontroversial: there is a positive achievement effect for poor, nonwhite, urban students, but suburban and rural charters come up short, as do online charters, about which the authors duly report negative findings.

Additionally, though their sample was too small to establish causality, Schiess and Rotherham found that rural students are more likely than their urban peers to choose less - rigorous diploma options and to opt out of higher level math courses such as algebra II.

Further, they also found that rural students enrolled in advanced courses were less likely to pass Advanced Placement exams than their non-rural peers.

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.

We find that moving to a middle school causes a substantial drop in student test scores (relative to that of students who remain in K — 8 schools) the first year in which the transition takes place, not just in New York City but also in the big cities, suburbs, and small - town and rural areas of Florida.

A report on rural schools looking at data from the 2013 - 14 school year found that more than 20 percent of all public school students in the United States are enrolled in rural school districts, which is over 9.7 million students.

«In order to raise our students» expectations, we expose them to educational opportunities and experiences not found in our rural community,» said Tammi Sutton, GCP cofounder and teacher.

The most rigorous and comprehensive research on vouchers finds that they negatively affect student achievement, but the impact of a nationwide voucher initiative would be particularly devastating in rural communities and small towns where there are not enough students to sustain multiple schools at each grade span.

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.

A recent study of urban, suburban, and rural schools in four states found that smaller schools helped close the achievement gap — as measured by test scores — between students from poor communities and students from more affluent ones.

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

This fact was supported in the Software & Information Industry Association survey, which found that less than one - third of educators — 25 percent of educators in urban areas and 33 percent of educators in rural areas — believe that there is adequate bandwidth for students to have access to digital instructional materials.

While the federal government has offered student loan forgiveness and stipends to incentivize teachers to teach in these areas, researchers have found that nationwide, inexperienced teachers are still more common in rural, high - poverty schools.

While rural school districts have fewer students, the study found, they have «extremely high» rates of chronic absenteeism as well.

An Etowah County high school teacher was arrested Friday morning after police say he was found with a student in a rural area of another...

Becoming a teacher in Wyoming might mean working in more rural, agrarian regions of the state, but these areas are still in need of quality teachers who find intrinsic reward in helping all of their students receive the education they deserve.

«Out of the Loop,» a new report from the National School Boards Association's (NSBA), Center for Public Education (CPE), finds that poverty, isolation and inequities are exacerbated for rural students by the lack of attention to the unique needs of this considerable student population.

In particular, the study found severe accountability problems with both programs, most notably: they do not serve students in rural areas where there were virtually no private schools or scholarship organizations (SOs) present; they fund primarily religious schools, which are not required to be accredited or adhere to the same standards for curricula as public schools; they do not require the same testing requirements as public schools, making it impossible to gauge student achievement; and they do not require reporting by schools or SOs.

For example, a meta - analysis of school - based and afterschool SEL programs found that participation improved elementary and middle school students» test scores by an average of 11 to 17 percentile points, decreased conduct problems, and increased students» problem - solving skills.17 Similarly, a meta - analysis of school - based SEL programs for students in kindergarten through 12th grade found that participation improved students» academic performance by 11 percentile points, reduced their anxiety and stress, and increased their prosocial behavior.18 These programs were successful in all geographic locations, including urban, suburban, and rural school environments.19

A recent analysis found students in rural China scored higher on tests as a result of the approach.

SRI researchers studying the program's first iteration in 22 high - poverty, rural districts in 10 states (Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Tennessee) found that C3WP students demonstrated greater proficiency in reasoning and in using evidence in their writing than those in control group districts.

«More principals find it challenging to maintain an adequate supply of effective teachers in urban schools and in schools» where two - thirds or more of the students come from low - income households (60 percent vs. 43 percent in suburban schools and 44 percent in rural schools).

Even though rural students, on average, reported lower expectations, those that did pursue higher education found higher rates of success.

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.

The study finds that in states with larger proportions of rural SIG schools (in comparison to states with more urban and suburban districts), significantly fewer school leaders reported that replacing principals to meet SIG requirements helped improve student achievement.

First, it was found that both fourth - and eighth - grade rural and urban students of lower socioeconomic status (SES) had fewer teachers with recent professional development in computers and mathematics education and had less access to home computers than did suburban students.

Justin at StairPorn found this elegant one in a surprising place: A house built at the Rural Studio of Auburn University, where four students

While the traditional legal education model has bred students to «Think like a lawyer,» the resulting outcome has left many graduating law students struggling to find employment that justifies the huge debt load many students take on and has created a huge access to justice gap that persist in low - income and rural communities.

Add to that a rural location, which means you don't have to compete with as many other schools and scores of students as you would in a larger metropolitan area, and you find a program that puts you on a unique path to success.

While my inner cynic is swift to find the reason for considering the Lakehead program «less than» rather than «different from» in the metropolitan mind's easy disparagement of the rural, or in white Canadians» racist views of a campus that hosts 10 % Aboriginal students, I would hope that neither of those is the underlying rationale here.

«[We] are preparing students for the practice of law in rural and smaller centres,» says Lakehead's founding dean of law Lee Stuesser.

We found that these factors were significantly associated with club membership for metropolitan adolescents and for the Year 7 cohort, but not for regional / rural students or the Year 11 cohort.

Programs were effective for students of all ages and from different ethnic groups, regardless of whether their schools were in urban, suburban, or rural areas, the analysis found.