Sentences with phrase «provide rural students»

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

Not exact matches

This is especially true in small, rural churches, which can provide none of the kinds of support most seminary students have become used to.»

It provides students with four to eight weeks of clinical training in a rural community during the summer between their first two years of medical school.

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.

Now, through This Land Speaks — a recipient of the HGSE's Education Entrepreneurship Summer Fellowship, which provides funding and space at the Harvard Innovation Lab to students to advance ventures — she hopes to help students living in disadvantaged rural communities like the Mississippi Delta, Appalachia, Native American reservations, the Florida Panhandle, and the Eastern Carolinas.

Six weeks in to the project, Rural Fire Service (RFS) staff visited the school to provide expert opinions on the students» progress.

Schools face unique challenges in their effort to provide a first class education to students and communities in remote regions of rural America.

What percentage of schools in rural, remote and regional Australia struggle to provide their students with full time, qualified teaching staff?

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.

In fact, our last tour to South Africa — which incorporated a visit to The Goedgedacht Trust, a charity providing real solutions to tackle poverty amongst rural children and youth — had such an impact on three of our students that on their return to England they independently organised and completed a charity cycle ride.

The result, experts say, is that many rural districts still face a steep climb to meet long - term federal goals for school connectivity, even though most currently provide students with the minimum recommended bandwidth.

Rural schools are tackling unique challenges to provide a quality education to their students.

Urban schools can make just as much use of their surroundings as rural schools, providing unique learning opportunities that make lessons real and crystalize connections for students.

Rural schools are valued and caring community institutions, but they don't provide everything their students need.

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.

Other recent work includes developing a school funding model to simulate the impact of student - based budgeting at the state level, evaluating a rural school grant, and providing strategic and research support for a nonprofit working to build the supply of great public schools in a Western state.

The Bureau of Federal Educational Programs provides technical assistance, program support and monitoring to local educational agencies that will lead to improved academic achievement outcomes for students who are disadvantaged, migrant, neglected, delinquent, at - risk, or homeless; or in rural and low - income schools.

Alexandria, Va., (January 16, 2018)-- Nearly 20 percent of the country's students are enrolled in rural schools, yet are not provided the same focus in national policy or research as students in urban and suburban school districts.

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.

From 2003 - 2007 he led a USAID - funded longitudinal survey of community - based accelerated learning for primary school students in 10 rural provinces in Afghanistan and provided technical assistance to the Ministry of Education.

Digital learning tools and practices are filling curricula gaps, allowing students to learn from anywhere and providing deeper contextual learning experiences traditionally unavailable in many rural schools.

Government must invest in and redesign underresourced urban and rural schools so that they consistently provide high - quality education for their students.

«We believe that HGSE, as one of the world's leading academic institutions, has the responsibility to change the conversation in order to improve student opportunity, achievement, and success in rural communities,» she says, stressing that rural education needs to be part of the dialogue around providing quality education to all.

If enrollment for rural schools declines further, it will only increase the challenge of providing federally mandated programs for students in special education, English - language instruction, and ensuring students have access to school personnel and curriculum.

It includes four strands: (1) development of a tool (the «Framework») to guide teachers» design of student learning experiences, (2) enhancement of teachers» leadership skills (particularly related to sharing leadership for instructional improvement), (3) dissemination efforts that support understanding and use of the Framework across levels of the education system and in all areas of the state, and (4) provision of a platform that provides rural areas in Colorado with easy access to the Framework and extends access to and use of the Framework across the nation and the globe.

It also calls attention to the urgency of providing more opportunities to rural students through partnership and collaboration with families, institutions, and communities, and shares strategic recommendations that will help policymakers and other stakeholders achieve this goal.

To help those students, Quitman County has joined other rural districts to form the Mississippi Public School Consortium for Educational Access to provide advanced coursework for all high school students, regardless of where they live or their family circumstances.

And like most public schools in rural areas, these private schools would face significant challenges recruiting and retaining qualified teachers, providing differentiated and challenging content, providing support for students with special needs, and more.

Education Initiatives» recently released Student Learning Study (SLS) provides a fresh and insightful assessment of student learning across 18 states of India in both urban and rural schools, reaching over 100,000 students in Classes 4,6, and 8, covering 13 lanStudent Learning Study (SLS) provides a fresh and insightful assessment of student learning across 18 states of India in both urban and rural schools, reaching over 100,000 students in Classes 4,6, and 8, covering 13 lanstudent learning across 18 states of India in both urban and rural schools, reaching over 100,000 students in Classes 4,6, and 8, covering 13 languages.

E3 creates the best of both worlds: With a total student enrollment 28,196, E3 provides districts — many of whom are also rural — the advantages of larger districts with a larger community of educators and opportunities for professional development while at the same time allowing educators to maintain and grow their professional connections in their local communities.

The WoLakota project supports students in rural and high - need schools, pairing trained mentor - teachers with new teachers and providing Courage to Teach circles to tend to the ʻheartsʼ of each.

Network Eight: Students in Small and Rural School Districts, which provides that activities that may support learning opportunities and improvements across the state may include projects such as professional community to mentor and support teachers and mitigate professional isolation

Evers» current budget request asks for $ 5.5 million to provide rural school districts with grant money to pay teachers to retain and recruit them; increase transportation funding for rural school districts and millions more in funding for bilingual - bicultural programs and programs aimed at students who are learning English as a second language.

The report also calls on Congress to extend funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program, increase funding for career and technical education programs, expand the Community Eligibility Provision so more students in high - poverty schools can receive free meals, improve schools» access to Medicaid funding for health and mental health services provided to students, and adjust the Title I funding formula so that it's «accurately and more meaningfully» allocated to rural school districts.

The goal, in part, is to increase educational equity — providing guidance so students in rural districts and districts lacking resources can get more exposure to blended learning.

She provided leadership to 45 predominately rural school districts serving approximately 77, 000 students.

Schools in rural Appalachia struggle to provide counseling services to students, and the Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative has sought to fill the gap with an online resource.

The bill requests an increase in funding to school district between $ 222 - 450 per student, provides $ 30M to be allocated to rural school districts (approximately $ 89,700 for Hanover School District), a permanent buy down of $ 150M on the current $ 850M budget stabilization factor (approximately $ 60,000 for Hanover School District), and a reduction in state reporting requirements for rural school districts.

Funding available through federal title programs support and provide equity for: students who are economically disadvantaged (Title I, Part A); students from migrant families (Title I, Part C); students considered at - risk, including neglected and delinquent (Title I, Part D); students learning English as a second language (Title III); students living in rural and remote areas (Title V); and students who are experiencing homelessness (Title VII).

«We are a rural community with 77 % of students on free and reduced lunch, so we need to provide as many opportunities for them to be successful as we can.

«High quality virtual charter schools provide valuable options to families, particularly those who live in rural areas where brick - and - mortar schools might not have the capacity to provide the range of courses or other educational experiences for students,» she wrote.

STEM programs, though, can help rural students aim high while providing real - world, experiential learning opportunities.

The bottom line is that many of our rural schools lack the resources to provide students with educational opportunities anywhere near those of our wealthier, suburban districts.

VTS provides STELLAR participants both in - person and online professional development sessions with the goal of supporting rural schools with evidenced - based strategies that lead to the following student outcomes:

Two decades of experience with the use of school counselors in rural areas of Russia has demonstrated their necessity in supporting students, but their further development and increasing effectiveness requires a significant increase in resources provided to them.

The Blended Learning program will help teachers in seven rural West Virginia schools «blend» face - to - face instruction with online resources to provide engaging, technology - rich learning opportunities for students.

Nearly 20 percent of the country's students are enrolled in rural schools, yet are not provided the same focus in national policy or research as students in urban and suburban school districts.

In their view, dual enrollment is presumed to lead to a long list of positive outcomes for all participating youth, including increasing the academic rigor of the high school curriculum; helping low - achieving students meet high academic standards; providing more academic opportunities and electives in cash - strapped, small, or rural schools; reducing high school dropout rates and increasing student aspirations; helping students acclimate to college life; and reducing the cost of college for students.