Sentences with phrase «many rural students»

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.

One of our working groups is developing a rigorous educational research project that can advance understanding of the factors affecting rural students» entry into and persistence in STEM career pathways.

Finally, there are many studies that inquire into the factors that correlate with post-secondary retention in general, and with STEM attrition specifically but few that focus on rural students.

Rural students, who live in towns with fewer than 10,000 people, experience an increase in critical - thinking skills of nearly one - third of a standard deviation.

Among rural students, 34 percent of the control group would censor art compared to 30 percent for the treatment group.

Among rural students, the increase is much larger: 22 percent of a standard deviation.

Rural students who visited Crystal Bridges experience a 13 percent of a standard deviation improvement in tolerance.

A new scholarship program launched this summer gives bright, low - income rural students the chance to take part in a challenging summer program at sites across the country.

It's still going strong, supporting remote, rural students who are transitioning to further education or employment on the mainland.

Could technology actually bridge the gap between rural students and their urban peers?

The eLearning opportunities available to rural students make non-traditional career options a reality.

In 2015, Brazil's school assessment exams, the National Education Evaluation System (SAEB in Portuguese), will provide the first data on how schools in Amazonas have fared since receiving the IDB loan, and while this will be a useful tool for evaluating the performance of rural students compared to their urban counterparts, Perez says the exam may not be an entirely accurate measurement of the success of PADEAM and the Media Center.

Satellite internet based eLearning for rural students provides not only access to information and resources that would otherwise be unavailable, it also gives them a platforms where they can interact with other learners and teachers.

A majority favor funding for high schools offering advanced courses for students online and for high schools that offer rural students a broader range of courses online.

Rural students often have lesser learning options due to the lack of infrastructures and resources.

For example, with our limited number of school groups we can not know whether minority students, female students, younger students, low - income students, or rural students receive different benefits from seeing live theater.

Through writing workshops, This Land Speaks aims to foster civic engagement among rural students and increases public awareness about social issues in America's rural low - income areas.

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?

Tragically, mental health issues complicate the process of educating rural students.

Rural Students Produce High - Tech Projects In the rural Mendocino (California) Unified School District, a locally developed computer network eliminates one of the greatest challenges facing many small, rural, budget - tight districts.

Figure 2 shows that the achievement of rural students on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) gets worse the farther from a population center they live.

As Stanford University professor Larry Cuban writes in Oversold and Underused, «There have been no advances (measured by higher academic achievement of urban, suburban, or rural students) over the past decade that can be confidently attributed to broader access to computers....

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

As a result, rural students, unlike urban kids, can't get exposure to broadening experiences including such important things as visiting college campuses or even interacting with adults with college degrees.

This how - to article accompanies the feature «Rural Students Reap Academic Gains from Community Service.»

A business studies teacher, Ayub is focused on helping rural students improve skills such as innovation, design and creativity.

Read on to learn how rural students can take advantage of online learning resources to fill gaps that brick - and - mortar schools can't always cover.

LC: Cyberschools and distance education have increasingly connected isolated rural students and home - schooled children to teachers and resources that were heretofore unavailable to them.

Both English - language learners and rural students showed equally strong benefits.

In addition to the dearth of resources this far from the city, Umesh says, the rote learning and streamlined messages of the government schools can alienate rural students from themselves.

With 1,061 annual beneficiaries, Jaago Foundation aims to help bridge the educational quality gap between urban and rural students in Bangladesh.

The formal partnership between this school and its local council supports remote, rural students who are transitioning into further education or employment.

To the contrary, rural students consistently do less well in college on a variety of outcomes (readiness for credit - bearing courses, grades, rate of progress, graduation) than urban students from similar income groups.

In Big Country: How Variations in High School Graduation Plans Impact Rural Students, education policy experts Jennifer Schiess and Andrew J. Rotherham examine one factor that may contribute to that gap: high school rigor.

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.

Based on this information, Kissam makes several recommendations that could not only help to close the attainment gap between rural Hispanic students and their white peers but could also improve outcomes for all rural students:

A key to addressing this deficiency is to increase rural students» access to high - quality teaching, especially in college preparatory courses.

Facts and Figures About College Enrollment for Rural vs. Urban Students Question: Are rural students more or less likely than their urban peers to attend college?

While rural students are likely to graduate from high school, they lag far behind on every college indicator — applications, admission, attendance, readiness, grades, persistence, and graduation.

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

In this case, 70 % of Urban students, 73 % of Suburban students, and 65 % of Rural students enrolled in college.

Charter schools, if designed around innovative approaches to meet rural students» needs, are another possibility.

What can be done to improve rural students» prospects?

Terry Ryan, president of the Idaho Charter School Network, adds «Charter schools have provided an academic lifeline for students in troubled urban school districts for decades, yet charter opportunities are not available for most of the country's 11 million rural students.

On the other hand, research indicates that rural students who live a long way from their school face significant time and transportation barriers to extracurricular participation.

Moreover, it should be able to be coupled with a pico - projector and a set of speakers, in order to deliver the educational content to rural students, while the microphone and the camera of the smartphone itself will be able to take feedback from the students themselves.

Of those rural students, more than two in five live in poverty, more than one in four is a child of color, and one in eight has changed residence in the previous 12 months.

On the other hand, more than half of all rural students live in just 11 states.

Although rural students are more likely to obtain a high school diploma than urban students, they are significantly less likely to attend college or earn a degree.

Internet access and virtual learning are a challenge as both rural students and their schools contend with slow or no internet connectivity.