Sentences with phrase «offer rural students»

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.

Not exact matches

The Satellite & Advanced Multimedia Education (SAME) program offers support to rural and disadvantaged students in their Mathematics, Science and English learning.

We have these school divisions and the urban areas have [high populations] and obviously big school divisions, but the rural divisions have struggled to maintain a variety of course offerings to high school students in their really small schools.

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».

Rather than hollowing out rural communities, better preparation for the constantly evolving mainstream economy can offer some students the opportunity to return home as entrepreneurs or participants in the online space.

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.

This paper, written for the Rural Opportunities Consortium of Idaho, offers policymakers and philanthropic leaders a set of recommendations to capitalize on the potential of technology to serve students: expand broadband access to schools lacking it, create an elite corps of proven teachers who would be made available to students across the state, and provide districts and schools with the flexibility to develop new models of staffing and technology and to achieve the most strategic combination of personnel, facilities, and technology.

Afterschool programs come in all shapes and sizes, offer students a host of enriching activities, and serve a diverse group of students — keeping kids safe, inspiring learning, and supporting working families from communities like rural Parma, Idaho to Baltimore, Maryland.

Ryan concludes by offering five lessons for policymakers in rural states that could help improve educational opportunities for students:

High - needs urban and rural schools, on the other hand, offer their teachers extremely challenging students, unusually poor working conditions, and compensation unresponsive to market conditions even within the teaching profession.

The article offers strategies for implementing a personalized learning, a student - centered approach to help the students develop deeper learning competencies, in rural schools.

It's a model that Betsy DeVos, the U.S. Secretary of Education, has called for, claiming that virtual schools can offer «valuable options» in rural areas, where educators are eager to expand courses, as long as they don't have to push already tight budgets or direct student funding away from schools.

Stronger charter school laws can help meet rural students» needs by allowing communities to innovate in ways that traditional districts can not because of regulatory constraints on hiring, spending, allocation of time, and class offerings.

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.

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They were promoted as a way for students in isolated rural schools to tap into advanced classes not offered in their towns, or for students at risk of dropping out to make up credits.

RurAL CAP offers a Head Start program and the district now offers a Montessori pre school with a large number of students in attendance which bodes well for future district enrollment.

North Carolina does fund and run a smaller virtual school it runs, the N.C. Virtual School, that specializes in offering individual classes (allowing students in rural areas, for example, to take advanced classes not offered at their schools, or remedial classes allowing other students to catch up where they've fallen behind.)

These courses provide rural students an opportunity to study a foreign language at sites that would not otherwise be able to offer foreign language.

(Calif.) A bill aimed at reducing poverty among all children in California may also present an opportunity for rural schools to offer more programs and resources for homeless students.

Though Leland and Gray is a rural school in an economically struggling region — roughly half of its students come from low - income backgrounds — it offers a wide range of AP and dual - credit courses, which all students are eligible (and strongly encouraged) to take.

These are only a few examples of how today's ISDs serve urban, suburban and rural K — 12 districts, enabling even the most challenged school to offer otherwise unavailable educational opportunities to its students.

Veterinarians are choosing to work in locations that offer higher pay in order to pay off their high student loan debts, causing a shortage of veterinarians in rural areas,» said Sonny Ramaswamy, NIFA director.

As part of the PPA between UNSW and Maoneng, an annual scholarship worth A$ 10,000 (US$ 8,000) will be offered to students studying at Balranald Central School — which is located close to the planned solar farm in rural NSW — to attend UNSW.

The Law Society of Manitoba launched its own initiative in 2010 by offering forgivable loans to cover tuition and living costs to students from remote communities who attended that province's law school and then practiced in rural communities at a rate of 20 % per year similar to some existing schemes for doctors.

The Colorado Rural Health Center offers scholarships and loan repayment options to health care students.

Description: The National Board of Certified Counselors offers this award to master's - level Virginia counseling students committed to practicing in rural areas for two years upon graduation.